Kenyon - Nelle
Source: Crawfordsville Daily News-Review Nov 28, 1902 p 4
Driven to desperation by ill health Miss Nelle Kenyon, formerly of this city, committed suicide Thanksgiving in Chicago. A message to that effect ws received during the afternoon but it remained for the Chicago papers to give the details. Miss Kentyon was rooming with Mrs. Mary Phillips at 3,216 Forest Avenue. About 9 o'clock her land lady met her on the stairway and wished her a merry Thanksgiving. Miss Kenyon replied that she had nothing to be thankful for as there was no pleasure left in life for her owing to her long illness. With this she took a bottle from her pocket and added, "It only remains for me to take this." Before Mrs. Philipss could prevent the young lady swallowed the contents of the bottle which was later found to have contained carbolic acid. She was taken to the Baptist hospital but died an hour later, without having regained consciousness. The premeditation fo the deed was attested by a note in her room asking that her effects be sent to relatives in this city. THe deceased was a daughter of the late Wiley Kenyon and was born in this city Nov 11, 1866, Three sisters and a brother survive her, Mrs. TB Nicholson and Miss May Kenyon of this city, Mrs. Harry Patterson of Jackson, Mich and WIll Kenyon. She ws an attractive and refined lady and had many friends. She was employed for several years in the NY Store at Indianapolis and left there to take a position with Marshall Field establiment at Chicago as an expert glove saleslady. Miss Kentyon had been in poor health since last spring and about two months ago went to the hospital for an opertion. Her suffering and illness occasioned despondency and in a moment of mental abstraction she decided to end all. The remains will be brought here from Chicago tonight and taken to the residence of TB Nicholson where a private funeral will be conducted - kbz