WOOLIVER, Sarah Eastlack - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Mrs. Aaron Wooliver, who resides at Tangier, committed suicide Thursday of last week by hanging herself. Mrs. Wooliver and her daughter, Mrs. Cora Cheezum, had arranged to go to Sylvania that morning and in accordance with these arrangements Mrs. Cheezum called at the home of her mother in the morning, but not finding her, concluded that she had gone to some of the neighbors and made the trip to Sylvania alone.   In the afternoon about 4 o’clock she again called at her mother’s house and still she could not find her.  Mr. Cheezum became alarmed about her mother and at once notified the neighbors of her mother’s disappearance and they all joined in the search for her.  They were horrified upon entering the small milk house, to find the body cold in death hanging by a rope which was fastened to a beam.  Wooliver had fastened the rope to the beam and then about her head and throat in a manner difficult to describe.  The rope being too long to suspend her body from the floor after she had stepped from the box on which she stood to fasten the rope, it was necessary that she bend her knees until she strangled to death.  When the body was found it was cold indicating that the dreadful deed had been done in the morning.  The breakfast dishes were unwashed and the bed was not made which is further evidence that the deed was committed in the morning.

Mrs. Wooliver’s husband died about 3 years ago and since that time she seems to have worried a great deal and seemed to be anxious for life’s journey to come to a close. The Woolivers were fine people and were highly esteemed in their community.  Funeral services were conducted at Tangier by Rev. A. J. Marshall after which the remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at that place. – thanks to “S”