Gladwin County MI Archives Obituaries.....ARNCE, MARGUERITE WYNONAH  April 1, 1910
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Gladwin County Record dated 04-21/1910 Column - 4 Page - 1
YOUNG WIFE SHOT HERSELF

WIFE OF HENRY CLAY ARNCE OF TOBACCO TOWNSHIP

UNHAPPY, TIRED OF LIFE

DELIBERATELY COMMITS SUICIDE---CORONER'S JURY INVESTIGATES.

   The community near Dundas Corners in Tobacco township was electrified by 
the suicide Thursday of the wife of Clay Arnce. While returning for a call on 
the neighbors, and in the best of spirits, Marguerite Wynonah Arnce 
deliberately shot herself through the heart with a 22-revolver that she had 
picked up from the window sill of her stepson's bedroom. Just before she fired 
the fatal shot she called the attention of her husband, requesting him to 
watch her. She had prepared a letter in which she acknowledge premeditated 
suicide, giving unhappiness as the reason. Death from the shot was almost 
instantaneous. She was married in 1907, when only 14, to Henry Clay Arnce, a 
one armed soldier of 65. She leaves a daughter one year old.
   The subject of the sad affair was born in Owosso, Aug. 24, 1893, and moved 
to Gladwin with her parents in 1895, and has since resided in Tobacco 
township. Besides husband and child her mother and one brother survive. Her 
maiden name was Stockford. Dr. F. S. Pierce, coroner, arrived on the scene in 
half an hour after the shot to find life extinct, and together with David 
Reymore, Philip Ottgen, William Quellet, William Berger, William Pary and 
William Woodby, jurors, held an inquest, and after hearing the testimony of 
several witnesses arrived at a verdict of voluntary suicide.
   Funeral was held Saturday in Tobacco town hall, followed by interment in 
Dale cemetery. About a year ago. Mrs. Arnce attempted suicide with carbolic 
acid, but was saved by prompt medical action. 

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