Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries




Fairfield Recorder - 9 Aug 1907 issue

              Yerby Locals
  AUG. 5 - Our community was greatly shocked, Thursday evening over the news that
Bill Owens, of Young, had committed suicide.  Mr. Owens was a good citizen and 
held in the highest esteem by all who knew him.

  Solon Owens passed through here Friday night, enroute to Young, to attend the 
funeral of this father at that place.
             UNCLE JOHN              
              
              SUICIDE AT YOUNG
     W. G. Owens, of Young, Kills Himself With a Pistol
     
  Word was received here Friday morning that W. G. Owens, a well known citizen,
of Young, had killed himself on Thursday evening. No cause was assigned except
that he had been in very bad health, and it is thought that this was the reason.
  It seems that Mr. Owens left his wife and another lady in the yard, and going
into the house, secured his pistol, lay down on a bed, and shot himself through 
the hear, dying five hours later.
  Mr. Owens was an old citizen of this county, and his many friends deeply 
deplore the horrible tragedy. His remains were interred in the Young cemetery
Saturday morning, the Masonic Lodge officiating.