MARY A WOOLEVER DEATH NOTICE, WARREN, NEW JERSEY

Copyright (c) 2001 by Stewart J.A. Woolever, Jr. (sjaw@citlink.net).

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 Warren Journal April 10,1908
                                      Woman Kills Herself
Mrs Mary A.Woolever,52 years old,wife of Stewart Woolever,of Hackettstown
committed suicide Tuesday by shooting herself in the head with a
revolver,Mrs Woolever had been mentaily affected for some time owing to the
burning to death of a child a few years ago.She made an unsuccessful attempt
to commit suicide nearly two years ago by taking carbolic acid.Last fall she
was committed to the State Hospital at Morris Plains for treatment,returning
home about two months ago improved in health.Recently however,her condition
had changed for the worst.Although watched she searched their home,and
finding a revolver,escaped from the house unnoticed,went in the rear of the
barn but a short distance away and killed herself.Several hour's search
among neighboring houses where she was thought to have gone were made before
the body was found by a daughter.The husband,who is employed on the
Lackawana Railroad,arived home just as the body was discovered.Coroner Jesse
Smith had the body removed to her home.Mrs Woolever was the mother of
seventeen children,nine of whom are living.
Obit Can be found at the Warren Co Library;