Wichita County, TX - Obituaries - Effie Cantrell ************************************************************************************* This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************************* Wichita Daily Times July 21 1908 BELLEVUE GIRL ENDS OWN LIFE - CAUSE IS UNKNOWN Bellevue, Tex., July 19 - On returning to their home, eight miles west of here, Friday evening, the parents of Effie Cantrell, 18 years old, found her lifeless body in the house. An empty target rifle lay beside her, while a wound in her breast near the heart indicated that death had been almost instantaneous. The Cantrell family had attended a picnic near their home, leaving the grounds about 5:30[illegible] o'clock. The young woman had preceded them probably half an hour. On leaving the picnic she appeared to be in the best of spirits and did not intimate to her close friends that she was tired of life. She was very popular with the young people of the neighborhood, who are unable to account for the finding of her dead body.