Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Frank E. WRIGHT

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Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, <rmontgomery@cishome.com> June 2005

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Despondency, due to ill health caused Frank E. Wright, of North Madison
street, to send a bullet through his right temple early Monday morning. His
body was discovered in the barn on his place about nine o'clock Monday
morning, after his brother, Charles, who had been living with him, had
failed to find him about the house.

Mr. Wright, who was 64 years, 5 months and 23 days old and unmarried, had
been ill for some time and unable to work for over two months. He feared he
had cancer of the stomach, and was also a sufferer from heart disease. At
time he couldn't lie down to rest, on account of his heart.

The suicide was planned with deliberation, for he had apparently made a bed
out of a quilt on the floor of the barn just before he shot himself, using
his brother's thirty-eight caliber revolver, which sent the bullet through
his head. The two brothers, who had been keeping house by themselves, sat
up until after eleven o'clock Sunday night, when Charles retired. This was
the last time he saw his brother alive.

For the past few days the ill-fated man had kept his good clothes laid out
on the bed, covered with a sheet, but his brother did not think anything of
this when he saw it, but it is probably that suicide was then planned.

Upon arising Monday morning Charles found a note on a table. On the note
was his dead brother's knife, watch and purse. The note bade his brother an
affectionate goodby, saying that the writer was sorry he had to take his
own life, but that he had to do it, for he could not stand the pain any
longer and that it was only a question of a short time until he would have
to go anyhow. He told his brother he would find his body in the garden and
for him not to feel bad because he had taken his revolver, for if he,
Charles, had had no gun he would have himself have bought one for the
purpose. 

Mr. Wright, who came here from Footville about twenty-five years ago, had
another brother, Daniel, who lives in this city. He had a nephew in
Minnesota and one in the East.

Funeral services were held from his late residence yesterday afternoon at
two o'clock, the Rev. William P. Pearce officiating. Interment at Maple
Hill cemetery.

November 30, 1916, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 1, Evansville, Wisconsin