She lived with her parents and taught several terms in Russell County schools. She was a member of the Baptist Church, the DAR, and the Russell County Home Demonstration club.
Never married.
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"Woman Shoots Self At Inn In Abingdon
Abingdon, Va. - Police Chief J.D. Christian reported Wednesday that Miss Grace Counts, 43, was found dead in a room at Martha Washington Inn at 4 p.m. Tuesday with a .22 revolver bullet shot through her left breast.
Christin said a suicide note was found addressed to her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth K. Counts. He said the woman lived in Abingdon with her mother and brother, E. Gorman Counts, and had returned without the knowledge of her family from Washington D.C., where she had been attending school. The officer said she checked in at the Inn at 8 p.m.
Her note revealed that she had failed in some school work in Washington and was despondent, Christian said. A maid at the Inn discovered her body. Her gun lay on an open Bible.
The family moved from Russell County about a year ago. Survivors are her mother; four brothers, W.L. Counts, Honaker, Va; Paris L. Counts, Portland, Ore., Kilby P. Counts, St. Albans, W. Va.; and Gorman Counts, Abingdon; four sisters, Mrs. Trigg M. Powers, Westminster, Md., Mrs. R.F. Sutherland, Kingsport; Mrs. R.L. Sutherland, Grundy, Va., and Mrs. E. Koehler, Melborne, Fla.
Funeral services will be held at Campbell Funeral Home Chapel at 11 a.m. Thursday with the Rev. E. M. Collier in charge of service. Burial will be in Russell Memorial Cemetery."
Kingsport News
Thursday, November 11, 1948
Kingsport, TN
She lived with her parents and taught several terms in Russell County schools. She was a member of the Baptist Church, the DAR, and the Russell County Home Demonstration club.
Never married.
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"Woman Shoots Self At Inn In Abingdon
Abingdon, Va. - Police Chief J.D. Christian reported Wednesday that Miss Grace Counts, 43, was found dead in a room at Martha Washington Inn at 4 p.m. Tuesday with a .22 revolver bullet shot through her left breast.
Christin said a suicide note was found addressed to her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth K. Counts. He said the woman lived in Abingdon with her mother and brother, E. Gorman Counts, and had returned without the knowledge of her family from Washington D.C., where she had been attending school. The officer said she checked in at the Inn at 8 p.m.
Her note revealed that she had failed in some school work in Washington and was despondent, Christian said. A maid at the Inn discovered her body. Her gun lay on an open Bible.
The family moved from Russell County about a year ago. Survivors are her mother; four brothers, W.L. Counts, Honaker, Va; Paris L. Counts, Portland, Ore., Kilby P. Counts, St. Albans, W. Va.; and Gorman Counts, Abingdon; four sisters, Mrs. Trigg M. Powers, Westminster, Md., Mrs. R.F. Sutherland, Kingsport; Mrs. R.L. Sutherland, Grundy, Va., and Mrs. E. Koehler, Melborne, Fla.
Funeral services will be held at Campbell Funeral Home Chapel at 11 a.m. Thursday with the Rev. E. M. Collier in charge of service. Burial will be in Russell Memorial Cemetery."
Kingsport News
Thursday, November 11, 1948
Kingsport, TN
Family Members
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William Letcher Counts
1883–1972
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Noah Monroe Counts
1886–1928
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Paris Linden Counts
1887–1974
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James Holiday Counts
1889–1965
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Virginia Tennessee "Tenny" Counts Powers
1891–1959
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Aily Counts Sutherland
1893–1984
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Kilby Palmer Counts
1897–1995
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Elihu "Gorman" Counts
1902–1992
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Effie Counts Koehler
unknown–1993
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