Frank Tolbert, a young man well known in Astoria and vicinity, committed suicide last Sunday night at the home of A. K. Larue, in Schuyler county. The cause of the young man’s rash act is a mystery. All day Sunday he was in a cheerful mood and seemed contented and happy. Elder D. E. Hughes, who was at Mr. Larue’s at the time of the suicide, gives us the following account of the affair:
Frank Tolbert was born near Browning, August 14, 1870. Died September 17, 1894, aged twenty-four years, one month and three days. His mother died October 4, 1876. His father survives him, together with three sisters and one brother. The father resides in Leavenworth, Kansas. One sister, Hettie, the wife of Rev. Harry Lindsey, of Dallas City; another, Ida, the wife of Charles Fike, now moving to Beardstown, Illinois; another sister, Minnie, single, residing at Plymouth, Illinois. One sister is numbered with the dead. On Sunday evening, September 16, at the residence of M. K. Larue the deceased took a bottle of carbolic acid containing two ounces, repaired to an unfrequented granary in the orchard where he took almost the entire contents, and died sometime during the night. He left a note under the plate of Morris Larue on the dining table, telling him what he had decided to do, and where his body might be found. At the breakfast hour Monday morning the note was found and soon after the body was discovered. His sudden death has cast a gloom over the vicinity of Christian Neck, where he has made his home since October 14, and where he has many friends among both young and old.
The funeral services were conducted from the house where he died, conducted by Elder D. E. Hughes, and interred in the Baders’ cemetery.
The relatives of the deceased wish to express their thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Larue for their interest manifested in them in this sad hour and for their help as well.
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