Sumner County TN Archives News.....Tired of Life February 1892
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Janet King JPerdue192@aol.com February 9, 2009, 9:56 pm

Portland Leader February 1892
I have obtained further particulars of a horrible suicide of a young man and 
his wife in the Brackintown neighborhood last week and from the coroner Esquire 
Benson. The husband was Elvis Perdue and the wife was before marriage Miss 
Stevens, the couple had been married only about a year one child had been born 
to them which had died. The young couple were poor and lived in a cabin on the 
place of Elvis' father. Their earthly possessions were very meager and we 
suppose that life went hard with them for all we can learn they lived happily 
together. On the morning of the 10th the father of Perdue with a young boy had 
started to the field to work when the Elder sent the boy to the house of his 
son to get a hoe. When the boy reached the door he found it a little ajar and 
peeping in he saw the body of the woman on the floor in blood. So frightened 
was he that he did not see the body of the man close by but hurried back and 
told Perdue what he had seen. Perdue went to the cabin and was horrified to 
discover both his son and his wife uppon the floor with their throats cut. Her 
head was resting uppon a pillow red with blood and he was transversly across 
her with his legs. A bloody razor was near the fireplace. A piece of writing 
upon manilla paper in the hand writing of the woman was found which shows that 
the suicide was deliberate. The writing was fully proved before the coroner. It 
is as follows:
Feb 10, 1892
Our Dear Fathers & Mothers
I am going to rite a little of our minds how we are going. Elvis is a goin to 
kill hisself and I am a goin to follow him, I love him well enuf to and that is 
my will & hisn't too & it looks like we have no friends but a few & the rest 
was alway talking where they had no busines we could not go no where but their 
was some talk & snurling their noses we talked it over and studied it & this is 
the way we both wanted to go & are going. we don't want anybody to greave after 
us we are going home & want Joe Martin and Mr. Lee to Sing "Near my home" and 
Elvis said he wanted Mary to have all the dishes he bought & Mama to have the 
rest. Lufine the looking glass Jim & Bill the rest of my clothes & his Pap the 
tobacco. He said he wanted Fanny to have the little knife, we don't want Tucker 
around us we both rote this. Good-By Good-By put both on the same wagon & put 
us beside our little boy.

Additional Comments:
Elvis Perdue was the son of Giles and Mary Vaughn Perdue. He was born in Sumner 
Co., TN ca 1860 and married 20 Jan 1891 in same to Susan Stephens daughter of 
James and Susan Kepley Stephens. Their only child was a son Iver S. Perdue born 
7 Sept 1891 and died before they committed suicide 10 Feb 1892.

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