Santa Clara County CA Archives Obituaries.....Gaylord, Ellsworth A. January 13, 1903
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Morgan Hill Times January 16, 1903
“A Sad Death

   Early Tuesday morning this community was startled by the news that E. A.
Gaylord, living a couple of miles south west of town in Paradise Valley, had
ended his life by his own hand.  The facts as we learn them are that he arose
about 3 o’clock and left the house, his mother was awakened at the time but soon
dropped asleep again.  About 5:30 she arose but found no fire started, she went
out to search for her son and soon found him lying unconscious in the tank house
with a wound in the head.  The neighbors were aroused and word sent to the
coroner, who arrived about noon and impaneled the following jury:  P. R. Bone,
T. S. Merrill, Mr. Dyer, Mr. Froemke, Charles Hatch, Lou Kelley, J. Mathison, C.
H. Barrett, W. S. Burr, Karl Bagwell, and R. S. Manning.  The verdict by the
jury was death caused by a gunshot wound inflicted by his own hand while in a
state of temporary insanity.
   Mr. Gaylord was injured some months ago by the overturning of a disk or
harrow with which he was working on the hillside, the injury affecting his
spine.  Mental disturbances resulted from this, which were aggravated by other
troubles, and this, it is believed, led him to seek deliverance in death.  Mr.
Gaylord left his mother, a sister, and a young son to mourn his loss.  He was a
member of the M. W. A., Royal Neighbors and Odd Fellows.  It is reported that he
carried insurance in two of these orders to the amount of $5000, in favor of his
mother.  The funeral service was in charge of Rev. J. A. VanAnds, conducted at
the house.  The Morgan Hill Camp 7877, M. W. A., participated in the service. 
The interment took place in Mount Hope Cemetery Thursday afternoon.”


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