Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Maxwell, Hiram January 1908
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Cairo Messenger, January 31, 1908
"Newsy Notes From Whigham"
"Newsy Notes From Whigham"
The suicide of Mr. Hiram Maxwell is generally regretted by his numerous friends 
and relatives.  He left his room last Monday at 4:30 to go to feed his horses, 
as he was accustomed to doing, and also put a fire in the stove.  Not returning 
for breakfast his wife became uneasy and began looking for him.  The neighbors 
and brothers of the deceased kept up the search till late Saturday afternoon 
when they tracked him to an old well on a plantation he once owned.  They found 
his hat near the well and found his head down in the water which was several 
feet deep, with both hands in his pants pockets.  No inquest was held as it was 
seen by his tracks that no one else could be implicated in the sad affair and 
it was a self suicide caused from a mental derangement.  Mr. Maxwell was about 
65 years of age and leaves a devoted wife, two sisters and three brothers to 
mourn his death, besides numerous friends and relatives.  Interment Sunday 
afternoon at Spring Hill.  

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