Willoughby- Frank - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Spencer put in a windmill and tank outfit for Frank Willoughby this week to furnish water from a driven well. The dug well, which is suspected of causing several cases of typhoid fever has been filled up.

=================

 

Source: Waveland Independent newspaper, Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana,  November 28, 1924

 

Again tragedy has come home to Waveland. On Friday afternoon  sometime after two o'clock, Frank Willoughby committed suicide by  cutting his throat. It would seem he had the deed in mind for  some time. He bought the butcher knife with which he took his  life some days before. On Tuesday he sharpened it at the Kolling  blacksmith shop. On the fatal afternoon he talked to a number of  people, and seemed very cheerful. He went into a stall in the  barn at his home, placed a rug on the ground, took off his coat,  knelt down and thrust the knife into his throat just above the  left clavicle, severing the jugular vein. Death was practically  instantaneous. Mrs. Willoughby had spent the afternoon with Mrs.  Newton Fullenwider. She came home about four. Having to take some  ashes out she went to the barn and discovered the body. Hearing  her cries, Harry Moody and Ott Kolling went to her assistance.  The body was taken into the house and a physician summoned but  nothing could be done. Coroner Griffith viewed the body on  Saturday morning and returned a verdict of suicide. Funeral  services at the home on Monday morning were in charge of Rev.  John Caldwell. Burial at Freedom Cemetery. Those present from a  distance were: Dr. and Mrs. L.M. Knoeple, of Kokomo, Mr. and Mrs.  Emmett Perkins and family, of Indianapolis, Mrs. Nora Walters and  Mrs. Harry McMains of Lebanon, John Carrington of Danville, Ill.,  Mrs. Chas. Spencer of Crawfordsville, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Tapp, of  Ladoga. The following obituary was read: "Franklin Willoughby son  of Joseph and Rhoda Willoughby was born near Stockwell,  Tennessee, March 28, 1850. He came to Indiana when a young man  and lived the remainder of his life in Montgomery and surrounding  counties. He was married to Nancy E. Carrington January 13, 1878.  To this union was born one daughter, Effie Tapp. He is survived  by his wife, daughter, two grandchildren, one brother and two  sisters. He was a member of the Freedom Baptist Church and the  Waveland Masonic Lodge. He departed from this life November 21,  1924." - transcribed by kbz