Aiken County ScArchives Obituaries.....Williford, W.T. February 1885
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The Aiken Recorder 17 Feb 1885
Suicide in York County.

From the Yorkville Enquirer.

On Thursday last, Mr. W.T. Williford, who lived near Thorne's Ferry, committed 
suicide by swallowing laudanum. On that morning he went to the field to low, and 
at about 9 o'clock returned to the house, and, according to his ante-mortem 
statement, took from the mantel a vial of laudanum and swallowed the contents - 
about an ounce and a half. Soon after taking the fatal dose, he called his wife 
and complained of feeling sick, told her what he had done. She immediately 
summoned a physician -Dr. Carouthers- who arrived in due time, but the 
unfortunate man was beyond the reach of medical skill, though every effort was 
made to counteract the effect of the poison. Mr. Williford was in town on Sale-
day, and those who saw him then say that he was cheerful and buovant. He was in 
comfortable circumstances, having plenty around him, in the prime of life, and 
no reason is given for the commission of the rash act.

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