Randolph-Davidson County NcArchives Obituaries.....Wilson, L. A. , Mrs.  December 11, 1862
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The Raleigh Standard,  31 Dec. 1862
The Raleigh Standard,  31 Dec. 1862
                          A SAD OCCURENCE
   At an early hour on Friday morning, the 11th instant, our community was 
shocked by the startling intelligence that MRS. L. A. WILSON, wife of W. M. 
WILSON of Bush Hill, Randolph County, N. C., had committed suicide by cutting 
her throat with a razor. The facts in the case, as they come to light, are as 
follows:
   The husband, MR. WILSON, being unwell, and two children lying, one upon its 
deathbed and the other very low, two young ladies of the neighborhood had come 
in to spend the night and assist in taking care of the sick. About 4 o'clock 
in the morning they had all lain down to sleep, except MRS. WILSON, who 
remained by the bedside of her sick child. In about an hour, MR. WILSON, 
awoke, and missing his wife, called her several times, and receiving no answer 
became alarmed and commenced searching for her and about six o'clock found her 
in an out-house near his dwelling, weltering in her own blood, with the 
instrument of her death lying by heer side.
   The parent had, a few days before, buried a very interesting boy about two 
years old, and at the time she committed the deed, another lovely little boy 
about five was lying at the point of death, and died in a few days after.
   It is supposed that these troubles falling so suddenly upon one so tender 
at heart, cause momentary insanity, under the influence of which the deed was 
committed.
   An inquest was held over the body of the deceased, and a verdict returned 
in accordance with the facts above stated. The deceased was a young one of 
about thirty-one years of age, beloved and respected by all her neighbors and 
acquaintances, and almost worshipped by her husband. She was, in the strictest 
sense of the word, a loving wife and an affectionate mother.
   The deceased, at an early age, embraced the Christian religion and joined 
the Methodist Church of Midway, in Davidson County, N. C. and was regular in 
her attendance of the church at that place until about three years ago, when 
they removed from that place to Bush Hill near Springfield Meeting House, 
among the Society of Friends, to whom she became very much attached, and took 
considerable interest in attending a Sabbath School in that neighborhood.
   The Community deeply mourns the loss of one who has always been an example 
of piety, and of whom none can speak but in praise of her virtuous life and 
the tender sympathy she had for her loving babes, the death of which caused 
her to commit the deed.
   MR. WILSON, the husband, is a gentleman highly esteemed by his 
acquaintances and noted for his kindness to his family. His friends deeply 
sympathize with him in the loss of his partner and children, with whom he 
lived in so much love and harmony.
Dec. 19, 1862                                 C.T.

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