Wife of C. S. Ashley
Aged 36 years & 6 months
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Ontario County Journal
Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York.
June 28, 1878
A case of suicide is reported near Honeoye, in the town of Richmond. Mrs. C. Ashley had been afflicted with consumption for some time, and being either temporarily insane or resolving to end her sufferings, took her own life last Sunday. There is a family of four children. The two oldest had gone to church, at her suggestion, with Mr. Ashley, while the other two remained at home and went to sleep. With the family thus disposed of, she went out to a little gully near the house, took off her bonnet and hung it up and took out her artificial teeth and laid them down, and then proceeded a little farther up the gully to a little pool worn by the action of the water on the rocks and into this pool laid her face and drowned. The family is a respected one and Mr. Ashley is a well to do farmer. The deceased was about thirty five years old.
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Geneva Gazette
Geneva, Ontario County, New York.
July 5, 1878
Mrs. Clifton (sic) Ashley of Honeoye committed suicide on the 23d ult., by deliberately thrusting and holding her head in a pool of water until death from strangulation ensued. She was rendered despondent by her illness of consumption and sought this means of ending a life summarily rather than to endure long suffering from disease. She leaves a husband and four children.
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Aged 36 years & 6 months
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Ontario County Journal
Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York.
June 28, 1878
A case of suicide is reported near Honeoye, in the town of Richmond. Mrs. C. Ashley had been afflicted with consumption for some time, and being either temporarily insane or resolving to end her sufferings, took her own life last Sunday. There is a family of four children. The two oldest had gone to church, at her suggestion, with Mr. Ashley, while the other two remained at home and went to sleep. With the family thus disposed of, she went out to a little gully near the house, took off her bonnet and hung it up and took out her artificial teeth and laid them down, and then proceeded a little farther up the gully to a little pool worn by the action of the water on the rocks and into this pool laid her face and drowned. The family is a respected one and Mr. Ashley is a well to do farmer. The deceased was about thirty five years old.
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Geneva Gazette
Geneva, Ontario County, New York.
July 5, 1878
Mrs. Clifton (sic) Ashley of Honeoye committed suicide on the 23d ult., by deliberately thrusting and holding her head in a pool of water until death from strangulation ensued. She was rendered despondent by her illness of consumption and sought this means of ending a life summarily rather than to endure long suffering from disease. She leaves a husband and four children.
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Wife of C. S. Ashley
Aged 36 years & 6 months
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Ontario County Journal
Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York.
June 28, 1878
A case of suicide is reported near Honeoye, in the town of Richmond. Mrs. C. Ashley had been afflicted with consumption for some time, and being either temporarily insane or resolving to end her sufferings, took her own life last Sunday. There is a family of four children. The two oldest had gone to church, at her suggestion, with Mr. Ashley, while the other two remained at home and went to sleep. With the family thus disposed of, she went out to a little gully near the house, took off her bonnet and hung it up and took out her artificial teeth and laid them down, and then proceeded a little farther up the gully to a little pool worn by the action of the water on the rocks and into this pool laid her face and drowned. The family is a respected one and Mr. Ashley is a well to do farmer. The deceased was about thirty five years old.
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Geneva Gazette
Geneva, Ontario County, New York.
July 5, 1878
Mrs. Clifton (sic) Ashley of Honeoye committed suicide on the 23d ult., by deliberately thrusting and holding her head in a pool of water until death from strangulation ensued. She was rendered despondent by her illness of consumption and sought this means of ending a life summarily rather than to endure long suffering from disease. She leaves a husband and four children.
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Aged 36 years & 6 months
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Ontario County Journal
Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York.
June 28, 1878
A case of suicide is reported near Honeoye, in the town of Richmond. Mrs. C. Ashley had been afflicted with consumption for some time, and being either temporarily insane or resolving to end her sufferings, took her own life last Sunday. There is a family of four children. The two oldest had gone to church, at her suggestion, with Mr. Ashley, while the other two remained at home and went to sleep. With the family thus disposed of, she went out to a little gully near the house, took off her bonnet and hung it up and took out her artificial teeth and laid them down, and then proceeded a little farther up the gully to a little pool worn by the action of the water on the rocks and into this pool laid her face and drowned. The family is a respected one and Mr. Ashley is a well to do farmer. The deceased was about thirty five years old.
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Geneva Gazette
Geneva, Ontario County, New York.
July 5, 1878
Mrs. Clifton (sic) Ashley of Honeoye committed suicide on the 23d ult., by deliberately thrusting and holding her head in a pool of water until death from strangulation ensued. She was rendered despondent by her illness of consumption and sought this means of ending a life summarily rather than to endure long suffering from disease. She leaves a husband and four children.
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