Endicott - Anna
ANNA ENDICOTT
Source: Crawfordsville (Indiana) Sunday Star newspaper, Nov 28, 1903 p 19
Aaron Endicut and his wife say that Earl Woody was responsible for the suicide of their daughter, because he had promised to marry her and that they would have been married before she killed herself had he been willing; they say that he had been to see her 17 times this year.
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Source: Crawfordsville, Indiana Sunday Star newspaper, Nov 21, 1903
Last Monday evening Miss Anna Endicott, living north of Darlington committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. She left a note with directions concerning her funeral, which was held on Wednesday at the Lutheran Church east of Darlington. She had selected the pallbearers Dora Goss, Grace Forest, Ethel Merrimen, Clara Hoover, Maggie Hampton, Grace Woody, Clella Tribbett and Bessie Beck. She had killed herself because was in love with Earl Woody, but there seems to have been some misunderstanding about an engagement to marry. In the note she left she said that she was of no use to the world and the world would be better without her in it – and so she died