Ellis County Texas Archives Obituaries.....Strong, J.  B. May 20, 1877
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Ennis Commercial Recorder
Committed Suicide
Last Monday morning Mr. J.B. Strong of this city was found in an unsensible
condition in his room. Medical aid was called in and investigation showed that
he had bled nearly to death from a small wound in his left arm which had severed
the main artery. He was taken care of and about 3 o'clock of that day died.

An inquest was held and the evidence showed that he was greatly troubled about
various things and for several days he had been carrying a razor with the
supposed purpose of cutting his wife's throat  (This idea being received from
his remarking that he had acted  a d---d fool for not killing himself and a
former wife whom he had left, and that when he and his present wife could not
get along they would both go together)

The evidence also showed that he had not eat, drank or slept for four or five
days, and that he wa found in the morning as above stated in a pool of blood
four or five feet across and an inch deed with a razor and a bandage near by; he
is supposed to have cut the artery with the razor and corded his arm with the
bandage. He was buried Tuesday in Myrtle Cemetery.

Additional Comments:
Ennis Commercial Recorder
Friday, May 20, 1887
Vol VII  No 20

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