Des Moines County IA Archives Obituaries.....McPherin, Emily June 28, 1859
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Burlington Hawkeye


    Burlington Hawkeye, June 29, 1859, reprinted in the Dubuque Express and
Herald, July 3, 1859

    We were pained yesterday to learn of the suicide of an estimable young lady,
Miss Emily McPherin. She was about 19 years of age, and an exemplary member of
the Methodist Church. For the last three or four weeks she had been desponding
and from the fact she made an unsuccessful effort to drown herself two weeks
ago, was supposed to be of unsound mind and had been watched. Her friends
thought it best to have her visit and it was the intention to send her to
Pennsylvania next week, where it was hoped her malady would yield to contact
with early scenes in the society of friends and relatives. In the meantime she
was staying at the house of Mr. Bailey, on the North Public Square. About 9
o'clock yesterday morning she was observed upstairs sewing. Soon afterwards her
body was found suspended by a strip of cotton cloth near the landing of the
stairs. The body was yet warm, but life extinct. The verdict of the Coroner's
Jury was in accordance with above. Four years ago an elder sister under similar
circumstances committed suicide by shooting herself. 



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