Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Mathers, Samuel T. 1915
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Payette Independent 8-12-1915
Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, August 12, 1915

PASSING OF SAMUEL T. MATHERS

Samuel T. Mathers passed away last Friday, Aug. 6 at the home of his daughter, 
Mrs. Wing, on Big Willow, his death the result of his own deliverate act. The 
statement of Loyd Pence and P. E. Miller, who brought the body to town, to the 
undertaking rooms of J. A. Lauer & Bro., shows. That sometime after dinner 
Violet Wing, grand-daughter of deceased, went to the Lloyd Pence home and 
asked for the loan of a horse to go and notify William Wing, who was working 
for P. E. Miller, that her grandfather had killed himself. Mr. Pence notified 
Mr. Miller by phone and Miller at once took Wing home in his auto. Ike Carter 
and Lloyd Pence went to the Wing home and found here Mrs. Wing and her sister, 
Miss Mathers. Upon inquiry they were informed that the body was in the cellar. 
Mr. Pence and Mr. Carter went to the cellar and found Mr. Mathers lying dead, 
reclining against the unfinished wall. A razor in his hand and a ghastly wound 
in his throat made plain what had taken place.

Miller and Wing soon arrived and he went to the cellar and viewed the body and 
arranged to have no one enter until coroner Farris of Caldwell and Dr. J. C. 
Woodward, deputy county physician at Payette had been communicated with. the 
coroner ordered the body taken to the undertaking rooms of J. A. Lauer and 
Bro. at Payette, where Pence and Miller arrived with it about 5 o'clock in the 
afternoon. Pence found a letter near the body which he handed to the daughter, 
Miss Mathers. The belief is that death had taken place about an hour before 
the body found. Dr. Woodward took the statement of Lloyd Pence and P. E. 
Miller, which left no doubt that Mr. Mathers had taken his own life.

The Mathers family reside at Oregon City, Oregon, and Miss Mathers was with 
her sister, Mrs. Wing, who had been sick, and Mr. Mathers had recently come 
down from his home to work on a farm in the Wing neighborhood. Mrs. Mathers 
was notified of the death on Friday evening and arrived in Payette Saturday on 
the noon train and the funeral service was held at the M. E. church at 2 
o'clock Saturday afternoon, conducted by the pastor, Rev. Barnes.

Miss Mathers, daughter, said her father had always been a good man and she 
could not possibly conceive of a reason for his rash act except temporary 
unbalance of mind. Mr. Mathers was 59 years of age and life's struggle with 
him had been difficult of late years.

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