Name: Araminta D Johnson
Born: 1 Nov 1863
Place: Centerville, Appanoose Co IA
Died: 22 Jan 1902
Place: Lucerne, Putnam Co MO
Lucerne (Missouri) Standard
Sad Suicide at Lucerne
Mrs. J. W. Cooley committed suicide Wednesday about 1 o'clock p. m.,
by shooting herself through the head with a revolver. Death was almost
instantaneous.
Four of her children were at home at the time, the eldest daughter
Cloe being sick in bed. Joe Cooley, her husband, had just left for his work,
and the eldest child, Claude, was at school.
The only cause assigned for the untimely act, is insanity. She
became deranged a few years ago and remained so for some time. She gradually
grew better however, and up to this time was apparently all right, though it
is the opinion of the majority of her acquaintances, that she never entirely
regained her mind.
None of the neighbors seemed to have heard the shot, but they were
attracted by the screams of the children, and rushing into the house they
found her in the bed room lying on the floor with her head in a pool of
blood and the deadly weapon beside her. She had been washing and the
youngest girl, about four years of age, said that her mamma came into the
room where they were, looked at all of them, took the revolver down, and
without saying a word, went into the bed room and shut the door. "Then,"
said the heartbroken little girl, "we heard a shot -- mamma had shot
herself."
It is one of the saddest affairs that has happened in our community
and the scene at the stricken home when the husband arrived, was
heart-rending.
At the inquest held by Coroner St. John rendered a verdict that she
came to her death from a pistol wound, from her own hands.
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