Biographies and Obituaries
In loving memory
Carlton Lee
Daily Times
Saturday, 27 Oct 1956
Carlton Lee Takes Own Life Today
Carlton M. Lee, 76-year od farmer of Rural Route 1, near Edwardsport
Road, took his own life by hanging this moring about 9 o'clock. His
wife found the body in the barn at their home. Despondency over failing
health was believed to have been the motive for his action. Daviess
County coroner stated today that direct cause of death was strangulation.
Mr. Lee had fashioned a noose from a cow lead rope, tied to a barn rafter
and slid off a hay loft. His neck was not broken.
The deceased was born in Decatur County, Indiana July 17, 1879, the son
of David and Sarah Pearce Lee. He came to Daviess County as a boy and
was educated in Washington Township schools. April 16, 1918, he married
Stella O'Donald and she survives.
He was a member of the Sugarland Methodist Church and the Modern Woodmen
of America.
Surviving besides the widow is one daughter, Mrs. Carl (Dorothy) Lowe
of Indianapolis and one granddaughter.
Other survivors include two brothers and one sister: Lester and Charles
M. Lee, both of Washington and Mrs. Oscar (Lottie) Standley of Greensburg,
Indiana. One brother preceded him in death.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Lee and York Chapel
with burial in the Oak Grove Cemetery. Rev. DeWitt Coats will officate.
Friends may call at the funeral home afternoon Sunday.
Contributed by: Sandra Hedrick Allen