Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Davis, Mrs. Perry 1934
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Portland Observer, 25 Jan 1934

Mrs. Perry Davis, 57, wife of a Danby township farmer residing east of the 
Compton school, shot herself while in the living room of her home Tuesday 
afternoon, dying within a few minutes after she had placed the muzzle of a 12-
gauge repeating shotgun against the lower part of her chest and fired the gun.  
Her husband who was at the barn but a short distance from the house heard the 
shot and hurried to the house where he found his wife breathing her last.  Mrs. 
Davis had apparently seated herself in a chair before a heating stove, placed 
the butt of the gun against the stove and discharged the gun by pressing the 
trigger with a piece of a yardstick.

Ill health was given as the cause of her act.  She had been suffering from a 
nervous ailment for many months and had been to Ann Arbor for treatment at one 
time.  She had spent much of the fall and winter with her son, Clem Davis, at 
Oneida Center, with whom she had visited last week returning home only Sunday.  
The husband and son are her only survivors.


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