From Moberly Monitor Index, Saturday, 8-7-1937, Ancestry.com, pg. 4
JAMES A BENNETT TAKES OWN LIFE
Bachelor Farmer Writes Will With Chalk Before Slashing Throat
FUNERAL WILL BE HELD TOMORROW
James Abbington Bennett, 72 year-old bachelor farmer, wrote a vague will with a piece of carpenter chalk sometime last night, then carried a razor to the tool shed on his farm near Ash and slashed his throat from ear to ear.
Coroner E. W. Shrader, who was summoned, viewed the body, pronounced Bennett's death a suicide and said no inquest would be held.
The farmers body was found this morning about 5:30 o'clock by Miss Maud Alexander, one of four nieces who survive him. The will and farewell message was scrawled with carpenter's blue chalk on the first four pages of a new pencil tablet, a few words on each page.
He had written: "I want 41 hundred dollars set apart for the grave yard--the rest to share and share alike--It looks I can't work--Pray for my soul--Goodbye to all." He did not sign his name.
The message was interpreted by the nieces, Miss Maude Alexander and Miss Bertha Alexander of the Ash vicinity, Miss Daisy Houston and Mrs. Lillie Houston Dooley of Monroe City, to mean that the $4100 was to be given to the cemetery at Ash, where Bennett's body will be buried tomorrow afternoon, and that they were to divide the remainder of his estate among themselves.
Bennett had visited his nieces in Monroe City yesterday. He had made his home with his nieces at Ash for seventeen years following the death of his brother, George. His farm, on which he was born, adjoined that of his nieces. It was there his body was found by Miss Alexander.
Bennett was a member of the Masonic Lodge at Madison and had been a Mason for 43 years. His nieces said he had farmed successfully until he began suffering from failing health two years ago.
Funeral services will be conducted at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Hickory Grove Baptist Church at Ash by the Rev. Arthur Fuhr of Warrensburg.
JAMES A BENNETT TAKES OWN LIFE
Bachelor Farmer Writes Will With Chalk Before Slashing Throat
FUNERAL WILL BE HELD TOMORROW
James Abbington Bennett, 72 year-old bachelor farmer, wrote a vague will with a piece of carpenter chalk sometime last night, then carried a razor to the tool shed on his farm near Ash and slashed his throat from ear to ear.
Coroner E. W. Shrader, who was summoned, viewed the body, pronounced Bennett's death a suicide and said no inquest would be held.
The farmers body was found this morning about 5:30 o'clock by Miss Maud Alexander, one of four nieces who survive him. The will and farewell message was scrawled with carpenter's blue chalk on the first four pages of a new pencil tablet, a few words on each page.
He had written: "I want 41 hundred dollars set apart for the grave yard--the rest to share and share alike--It looks I can't work--Pray for my soul--Goodbye to all." He did not sign his name.
The message was interpreted by the nieces, Miss Maude Alexander and Miss Bertha Alexander of the Ash vicinity, Miss Daisy Houston and Mrs. Lillie Houston Dooley of Monroe City, to mean that the $4100 was to be given to the cemetery at Ash, where Bennett's body will be buried tomorrow afternoon, and that they were to divide the remainder of his estate among themselves.
Bennett had visited his nieces in Monroe City yesterday. He had made his home with his nieces at Ash for seventeen years following the death of his brother, George. His farm, on which he was born, adjoined that of his nieces. It was there his body was found by Miss Alexander.
Bennett was a member of the Masonic Lodge at Madison and had been a Mason for 43 years. His nieces said he had farmed successfully until he began suffering from failing health two years ago.
Funeral services will be conducted at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Hickory Grove Baptist Church at Ash by the Rev. Arthur Fuhr of Warrensburg.
From Moberly Monitor Index, Saturday, 8-7-1937, Ancestry.com, pg. 4
JAMES A BENNETT TAKES OWN LIFE
Bachelor Farmer Writes Will With Chalk Before Slashing Throat
FUNERAL WILL BE HELD TOMORROW
James Abbington Bennett, 72 year-old bachelor farmer, wrote a vague will with a piece of carpenter chalk sometime last night, then carried a razor to the tool shed on his farm near Ash and slashed his throat from ear to ear.
Coroner E. W. Shrader, who was summoned, viewed the body, pronounced Bennett's death a suicide and said no inquest would be held.
The farmers body was found this morning about 5:30 o'clock by Miss Maud Alexander, one of four nieces who survive him. The will and farewell message was scrawled with carpenter's blue chalk on the first four pages of a new pencil tablet, a few words on each page.
He had written: "I want 41 hundred dollars set apart for the grave yard--the rest to share and share alike--It looks I can't work--Pray for my soul--Goodbye to all." He did not sign his name.
The message was interpreted by the nieces, Miss Maude Alexander and Miss Bertha Alexander of the Ash vicinity, Miss Daisy Houston and Mrs. Lillie Houston Dooley of Monroe City, to mean that the $4100 was to be given to the cemetery at Ash, where Bennett's body will be buried tomorrow afternoon, and that they were to divide the remainder of his estate among themselves.
Bennett had visited his nieces in Monroe City yesterday. He had made his home with his nieces at Ash for seventeen years following the death of his brother, George. His farm, on which he was born, adjoined that of his nieces. It was there his body was found by Miss Alexander.
Bennett was a member of the Masonic Lodge at Madison and had been a Mason for 43 years. His nieces said he had farmed successfully until he began suffering from failing health two years ago.
Funeral services will be conducted at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Hickory Grove Baptist Church at Ash by the Rev. Arthur Fuhr of Warrensburg.
JAMES A BENNETT TAKES OWN LIFE
Bachelor Farmer Writes Will With Chalk Before Slashing Throat
FUNERAL WILL BE HELD TOMORROW
James Abbington Bennett, 72 year-old bachelor farmer, wrote a vague will with a piece of carpenter chalk sometime last night, then carried a razor to the tool shed on his farm near Ash and slashed his throat from ear to ear.
Coroner E. W. Shrader, who was summoned, viewed the body, pronounced Bennett's death a suicide and said no inquest would be held.
The farmers body was found this morning about 5:30 o'clock by Miss Maud Alexander, one of four nieces who survive him. The will and farewell message was scrawled with carpenter's blue chalk on the first four pages of a new pencil tablet, a few words on each page.
He had written: "I want 41 hundred dollars set apart for the grave yard--the rest to share and share alike--It looks I can't work--Pray for my soul--Goodbye to all." He did not sign his name.
The message was interpreted by the nieces, Miss Maude Alexander and Miss Bertha Alexander of the Ash vicinity, Miss Daisy Houston and Mrs. Lillie Houston Dooley of Monroe City, to mean that the $4100 was to be given to the cemetery at Ash, where Bennett's body will be buried tomorrow afternoon, and that they were to divide the remainder of his estate among themselves.
Bennett had visited his nieces in Monroe City yesterday. He had made his home with his nieces at Ash for seventeen years following the death of his brother, George. His farm, on which he was born, adjoined that of his nieces. It was there his body was found by Miss Alexander.
Bennett was a member of the Masonic Lodge at Madison and had been a Mason for 43 years. His nieces said he had farmed successfully until he began suffering from failing health two years ago.
Funeral services will be conducted at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Hickory Grove Baptist Church at Ash by the Rev. Arthur Fuhr of Warrensburg.
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