Edwards - Effie Carpenter
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday 16 July 1897
The following special from Greencastle concerns the sad death of a young lady who has frequently visited here and at Ladoga, where she has many friends:
“Mrs. Albert Edwards committed suicide at her home, twelve miles north of the city, late this afternoon, by shooting herself with a filbert rifle. Mrs. Edwards was at the house of her father-in-law, James U. Edwards, one of the prominent citizens of the county. Mrs. Edwards’ husband resides in Lafayette. Cause of the suicide is unknown.”
A dispatch from Roachdale says: “Mrs. Effie Edwards, nee Carpenter, wife of Albert Edwards, took a rifle unobserved out into the orchard and shot and killed herself at 3 o’clock at the home of her father-in-law, James U. Edwards, near here. She had been in ill health, and despondency bordering on insanity is probably the cause of the suicide. They are prominent people here.”