Paulding County GaArchives Obituaries.....Roberts, Marion (Mr.) July 1883
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The Dallas New Era, Dallas, Georgia, July 5, 1883 
Attempted Suicide.  The horrible news of an almost successful attempt at 
suicide reached the town last Saturday morning, and from the prominence of the 
unfortunate man, Mr. Marion Roberts, near Raccoon creek, it was soon noised 
throughout the whole country.  The causes that led to the attempt are 
indefinitely known, though it is believed to have been melancholy.  During a 
fit of mental aberration Mr. Roberts drew a knife across his throat, 
separating the trachea and swallow, but missing the jugular veins, and after 
the gash was made he then climbed to the top of a tree and leaped or fell out, 
striking a fence in his fall, where he lay until found.  Mr. Roberts lost a 
lovely daughter several months ago, and recently a son, which seems to be the 
most reasonable hypothesis for his strange conduct.  According to the news 
that has been in today, (Tuesday) his condition is pronounced critical in the 
extreme.

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The Paulding New Era, July 12, 1883 

Dead.  Mr. Marion Roberts, who made the attempt at suicide by cutting his 
throat June 30th, while laboring under an attack of mental aberration, and who 
has been lingering from the effects of the injury ever since, died last 
Saturday afternoon about 2:30 o’clock, and was buried at High Shoals church on 
Sunday morning.  

Mr. Roberts was about fifty years old and for many years past a consistent 
member of the Baptist church.  His surrounding were all that heart could 
wish.  A good wife, three boys and one girl, bright, beautiful and promising 
children; a splendid farm and all the equipments to run it.  His rule of life 
was to owe no man anything, but the maddening fever of the brain came along 
and one more good citizen has paid the penalty.  The ways of Providence are 
mysterious to man.  

The bereaved widow and family have the sympathies of sd(?).






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