COX, Mae - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Rockville, Oct. 1—Mrs. Mae Cox, 62, committed suicide at her home about two miles south of here Saturday afternoon by tying a bathrobe cord around her neck, attaching the other end of the cord to her bed post and rolling out of bed. Her husband, Ralph Cox, was in bed with a broken hip. He could not see what his wife was doing because the head of his bed was in the way.   Mrs. Edna Branson, Deputy Parke County Coroner, who investigated, said that Mrs. Cox had been strangled by the bathrobe cord.   The body was not discovered until a daughter, Mrs. Clifford Easter, who lives with her parents, returned to the house with her husband after a trip to Rockville.   Mrs. Cox had a leg amputated about a year ago and had been bedfast since that time. Ill health was thought to have been the cause of her act.   Survivors in addition to Mr. Cox and Mrs. Easter, include a sister, Mrs. Harvey Richie, Terre Haute, and two grandchildren. -s-