Clark County OhArchives Obituaries.....Drake, Mattie March 19, 1925
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News-Dispatch, St. Paris, OH
Ill health, and frequent nervous breakdowns, during the last year, drove Mrs. 
Mattie DRAKE, 46, wife of M. R. DRAKE of Springfield, to commit suicide in the 
cellar of her home Monday afternoon. The woman hung herself with a clothes 
line rope, fastened from a beam. The jump to death was made from a wooden box. 
The body was found by the woman's 18 year old daughter, Garnett,a student at 
Wittenberg College, who returned home from school about 4 o'clock.The coroner 
Theodore Schaefer was called and pronounced suicide and stated the woman had 
been dead about two hours. The deceased was a sister of Ira BEATY of St. 
Paris. She also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Flora BEATY of St. Paris and Mrs. 
Bertha TALBOT of Texas. Private funeral services were held at the home 
Wednesday afternoon by Rev. Hoffman, of Springfield M. E. Church, interment 
was in charge of Bert Richeson and was made at Casstown Cemetery


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