Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Eaves, George March 6, 1918
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Ionia Standard, Friday, March 8, 1918
Burns Home - Shoots Self

George Eaves, Aged Ronald Farmer, Ends Life with Premediated Assurance

George Eaves, a farmer living about two miles south of Palo, burned his house 
to the ground and killed himself with a shot-gun at about 11:00 o'clock 
Wednesday night. He has been living alone for many years, and last summer went 
blind.  He was 76 years old.  Wednesday the members of an aide society carried 
him a dinner and all their dishes were found afterward in a sack in the front 
yard.  He had carefully washed them and carried them out before firing the 
house.

The neighbors saw the flames late in the evening and hurried to the house.  
Fred Baxter, Jr., who knew where the man usually slept, broke into the blazing 
house and found his way to the bed.  The dead body of Eaves was lying in the 
bed, and Baxter carried it outside the house and took it to the home of a 
niece, Mrs. A.C. Little.  Apparently the man had set fire to the house, made 
sure that it would be entirely consumed, and then had gone to bed before 
shooting himself in the face with his shot-gun.

Besides the niece mentioned, he has a brother, Alvin Eaves, and a nephew, John 
Eaves, all residents of the same neighborhood.

Additional Comments:
Burial in Palo Cemetery

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