Lewellen - Maggie
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, March 7, 1902
Miss Maggie Lewellen, a domestic who has been employed for several years by Tom Nolan, first at the old Sherman house and later at his restaurant, committed suicide Tuesday morning, the agency used being morphine. Miss Lewellen had been melancholy and morose for several days, but her determination to take her own life had not been intimated to any of her family. Monday evening she went up town at about four o'clock, returning a short time later. She entered the house and was staggering. Her sister had her lie on the bed and she soon went into a stupor. Dr's. Niven and Dennis who were called being unable to render her any efficient aid. her death occurring at 5:30 o'clock Tuesday morning. She has made her home with her sister, Mrs. Dan Stevens, residing at 214 west North street for some time and it was here that she died. Miss Lewellen was twenty-five years old and leaves a father and mother, five sisters and a brother. The funeral occurred Wednesday morning at ten o'clock, the interment being at the Odd Fellows cemetery. – Kim H