Upsetting Graphic Obituary!
Do Not Read Without a Strong Stomach.
Written in 1904; Lacking 21st Century Sensitivities
Mr. I.E. Gay kills himself with a shotgun, after carefully planning the deed perhaps for days or weeks.
Mr. I.E. Gay, an old man, killed himself by blowing the top of his head off with a shotgun last Saturday afternoon. The deed was the result of careful premeditation and preparation. Indications suggest that he had been contemplating the act for some time. The deed was committed about four o’clock in the afternoon, in a few feet of the little house in which he lived in his son in law’s yard, in Buford Township.
The old man who was about 70 years of age, had been married twice, the last time about twelve years ago. This wife died a few months ago, suddenly leaving two little girls, one three years old and the other six. Sometime ago he sold the small amount of property which he had, and sent those two children to Miss Mattie Perry’s school at Marlon. Becoming dissatisfied with this place sometime ago, he brought them back and last week took them to a rescue home in Charlotte, where they are now. Last Friday, he came to Monroe and went to the Savings, Loan and Trust Company with $120 saying that he wished to deposit $60 to the credit of each of his little girls, to draw compound interest till they became 18 years of age, when they were to have both interest and principal. He deliberated on this plan for some time, taking the money out and then bringing it back, and finally leaving it. On the way home that afternoon he was heard to say that he was ready to die. He had been saying for some time that he “wouldn’t be here long.”
The four children of his first wife are all grown and live in different sections, but with one of them Mrs. Geo. Gay, he had been making his home for some time. On Saturday he gave her $10, saying that would buy a coffin, as he didn’t wish an expensive one when he died; also that he had a suit of clothes that would do to be buried in. This alarmed Mrs. Gay, and she went to the field where her husband was at work, telling him to come to the house, as she was afraid her father would do something. He replied that would be as soon as he had finished up a small piece of work. While taking they heard a gun fire, and Mrs. Gay hastened to the house to find her father lying a few yards away with the top of his head shot off and the brain scattered all about. He had washed himself, put on clean stockings, and went out without putting on his shoes.
He had used his own breech loading shotgun. There was a notched stick with which he had pushed the trigger down after placing the butt of the gun against the tree and the muzzle against his forehead. The body was buried Sunday. Mr. Gay had always been regarded as an eccentric man, but appeared to be very fond of his little children, as he usually carried one of them about with him. The stern looking man and the very small girl riding slowly together were a familiar site on the streets here.
Mr. I.E. Gay, an old man, killed himself by blowing the top of his head off with a shotgun last Saturday afternoon. The deed was the result of careful premeditation and preparation. Indications suggest that he had been contemplating the act for some time. The deed was committed about four o’clock in the afternoon, in a few feet of the little house in which he lived in his son in law’s yard, in Buford Township.
The old man who was about 70 years of age, had been married twice, the last time about twelve years ago. This wife died a few months ago, suddenly leaving two little girls, one three years old and the other six. Sometime ago he sold the small amount of property which he had, and sent those two children to Miss Mattie Perry’s school at Marlon. Becoming dissatisfied with this place sometime ago, he brought them back and last week took them to a rescue home in Charlotte, where they are now. Last Friday, he came to Monroe and went to the Savings, Loan and Trust Company with $120 saying that he wished to deposit $60 to the credit of each of his little girls, to draw compound interest till they became 18 years of age, when they were to have both interest and principal. He deliberated on this plan for some time, taking the money out and then bringing it back, and finally leaving it. On the way home that afternoon he was heard to say that he was ready to die. He had been saying for some time that he “wouldn’t be here long.”
The four children of his first wife are all grown and live in different sections, but with one of them Mrs. Geo. Gay, he had been making his home for some time. On Saturday he gave her $10, saying that would buy a coffin, as he didn’t wish an expensive one when he died; also that he had a suit of clothes that would do to be buried in. This alarmed Mrs. Gay, and she went to the field where her husband was at work, telling him to come to the house, as she was afraid her father would do something. He replied that would be as soon as he had finished up a small piece of work. While taking they heard a gun fire, and Mrs. Gay hastened to the house to find her father lying a few yards away with the top of his head shot off and the brain scattered all about. He had washed himself, put on clean stockings, and went out without putting on his shoes.
He had used his own breech loading shotgun. There was a notched stick with which he had pushed the trigger down after placing the butt of the gun against the tree and the muzzle against his forehead. The body was buried Sunday. Mr. Gay had always been regarded as an eccentric man, but appeared to be very fond of his little children, as he usually carried one of them about with him. The stern looking man and the very small girl riding slowly together were a familiar site on the streets here.
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