Douglas County NeArchives Obituaries.....Hooper, Jennie B. March 3, 1887
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Jackson Sentinel, Mar. 10, 1887
Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa
March 10, 1887

Mrs. Jennie B.  Hooper (nee Aldrich), formerly of this place, committed 
suicide at Omaha last week, choosing the opium route. She left a letter which 
was published in the Omaha papers, giving a slight history of her early ruin 
at the hands of one who should have protected her, and of interest to only 
young girls who think home life slow and long for the exciting whirl of a 
maddening society. Her parents tried in all ways to educate and control her, 
but all proved of no avail. She forsook home and pure society and when too 
late to raise above the maelstrom of inequity into which she had fallen, 
performed her kindliest act to society, the world and herself by swallowing 
the potent poison that separated her soul from a foul prison and permitted it 
to soar out into eternity and return to its maker, where let us hope it will 
meet a redeemer who, knowing all things, all perplexities, all temptations and 
trials through which the weak spirit had been greatly tarnished, will brighten 
and mould it to His glory., and the weary spirit find at last rest and peace 
that had forsaken it on earth
-Wyoming Journal


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