This post was contributed to the Crawford County Chapter of OGS by Kristina Stearley as part of the Florence Siefert Scrapbook in 2010.
The scrapbook is compiled from undated, unidentified newspaper clippings involving events in the lives of Crawford County citizens living in or having connections to New Washington, Tiro, Shelby, Sulphur Springs, Chatfield, Bucyrus, Ashland, Mansfield, and other areas. Only minimal spelling or punctuation corrections were made. Unreadable areas are shown by underlines, dots &/or question marks. This collection has been scanned, “optical character recognized” (OCR’d), proofed, then coded for HTML by volunteers of the Crawford County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society. Since the copies are not of the best quality errors may have been made. Please contact us if you find corrections needing to be made or can verify any missing dates which could be added.
MRS. WILL MOORE HANGS HERSELF TO A BED POST
Despondent from Ill Health.
The sad news quickly spread over town Tuesday just before noon that Mrs. Mae Moore, wife of Will Moore, the well known clerk in J. Brubaker’s store, had hanged herself. Mr. and Mrs. Moore live on Cleveland avenue and an investigation verified the rumor and the startling fact of her self destruction. Mrs. Moore has been in ill health for several years and at times her mind became slightly unbalanced. Several times she had intimated that she would not remain here much longer, and her friends interpreted her to mean that she would take her own life. Recently, however, she had been in better health than for a long while and was able to visit and be about considerably. She was kept in the company of some one most or all of the time, however, for fear she might do herself injury. Mr. and Mrs. Moore lived with her step parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Thomas. The latter were both there, but Mrs. Moore went to the barn unperceived and secured a long strap, or line, and a ring. Going to her bedroom upstairs, where a bed was with high posts, she made a noose by slipping the line double through the ring, and fastening one end over the post and adjusting the noose, she allowed herself to hang until she strangled. When found her knees nearly touched the floor. She had been missed about half an hour, when Mrs. Thomas called for her up stairs. There was no reply and Mrs. Thomas went up to her room, only to find her as described. Mr. Thomas was called, who discovered that her pulse was beating faintly, but that action lasted but a short time. Her brother-in-law, Dr. Buchanan, was called, and shortly afterwards, Dr. Hunter, but they were unable to revive her. Her husband, Mr. Moore, who was at Mr. Brubaker’s store, was notified, and soon kind and sympathizing friends were extending all the aid possible. Mrs. Moore was about 35 years of age and was the mother of a bright little boy. She had very many friends who extended their help to her while living and now extend their sympathy to her bereaved husband whose grandfather was lying dead at the time of the suicide. Her maiden name was Ebert and she had been married about 11 years. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon.
