Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Tunmore, Hannah (Conner) June 20, 1909
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Grand Rapids Herald - Mon. June 21, 1909

Aged Woman Chose Asphyxiation to End Her Life – Aged Man Jumped Into River.

WOMAN WAS DESPONDENT

Two sexagenarians, both having apparently committed suicide, was Death’s toll 
in Grand Rapids yesterday.

Asphyxiation bearing all evidences of having been carefully premeditated, 
caused the death of Mrs. Hannah Tunmore, aged 60, whose body was discovered 
with life all but gone in the bathroom of her residence, 38 Third street, ate 7 
o’clock yesterday morning.

AGED WOMAN WAS DESPONDENT

Ill-Health cause of Mrs. Tunmore’s Death – Was to Visit Son.

Mrs. Tunmore had lived on Third street since separating from her husband, 
William J. Tunmore, a patternmaker, last September. She rented rooms in the 
upper portion of a residence owned by Christopher Harastead. Early yesterday 
morning Mrs. Harastead took breakfast to Mrs. Tunmore’s apartments, as she has 
been accustomed to doing daily, and when her summons received no answer she 
searched the house finding the body in the bathroom with the gas flowing freely 
from an open jet. Mrs. Tunmore was clothed only in her night railment and that 
she wished to make death certain and quick was evident by the care with which 
preparation had been made. The shade had been removed from the gas jet and the 
brass cap unscrewed giving the flow greater volume. All doors and windows had 
been carefully closed so that none of the gas might escape from the room. 

It is said that Mrs. Tunmore, who had been a rheumatic sufferer for along ti 
me, had been exceedingly despondent of late because of ill-health and domestic 
trouble. Although it is stated that she had previously made no threats of 
attempting suicide, it is said that she had been slightly unbalanced mentally 
for some time. Of late, her troubles had seemed to worry her unusually.

Recently she received a letter from her son, Ernest Burroughs of Libertyville, 
Ill., in which he asked her to come and make her home with him. That she 
anticipated doing so is evident, as Saturday she sent him a postal stating that 
she would start for Chicago Monday morning and requesting him to meet her 
there. Her suitcase partially prepared for the trip, was discovered in her 
sleeping room.

In addition to the son, Mrs. Tunmore is survived by her husband, who resides at 
185 Turner street, from whom she had been separated, a cousin, Mrs. Hiram 
Webber of 90 South Ionia street, and a niece, Mrs. Frederick M. Abbot, of 66 
Park avenue.

When seen last night Mr. Tunmore showed little feeling in regard to his wife’s 
suicide. “Since she left me last September,” he said, “I have had nothing 
whatever to do with her and have not seen her since last winter. I had a lot of 
trouble with her. I don’t know why she should have wanted to kill herself.” 





Additional Comments:
#1 Lloyd Burroughs – divorced 1881
#2 Mr. Wm. D. Tinmore 
Easton Cemetery


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