Obituary: COATS, Lewis ***** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the files submitter, or their legal representative, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ***** file submitted by: Kathy Gaines Gathered from resources at the Odessa Branch of Trails Regional Library Odessa, Lafayette County MO ************************************************* The Odessa Democrat 6 pages twenty-ninth year, first number Friday, October 12, 1912 Odessa, Lafayette County, Missouri page 1, last column DEATH BY CARBOLIC ACID Lewis Coats, Aged Sixty-five Killed Himself Sunday Morning Lewis Coats, a well known farmer living in the Barker neighborhood, north of Odessa committed suicide Sunday morning by taking carbolic acid. Mr. Coatshad been in poor health for some time, and to this attributed the reason for his rash act. A wife and six children are left. Mr. Coats was sixty-five year old. The burial occurred Monday in the Barker Cemetery. C.E. Prather, the undertaker here who had charge of this funeral, says this was the fifth suicide he had buried in the past nine months. In fact more than he had buried in the dozen years he had been an undertaker. ******