| Obit For | Ebb Wilson |
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| Headline | Ebb Wilson A Suicide |
| Text | Ebb Wilson, son of Harlan Wilson, living one half mile west of Osa, committed suicide at 6 o'clock Friday afternoon by shooting.
Ebb was 33 years old has has been suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis for some time and has been confined to his bed for the past three months and realized it was impossible for him to recover, however he had never intimated to his father or any one else that he intended killing himself. He had an unusually bad day Friday, being seized with spells of coughing at frequent intervals, which would leave him so nearly exhausted that he could not wait on himself, so his father had stayed with him till late in the afternoon when he, the father left the house leaving a small son to attend to Ebb's wants. When the father had gone, Ebb got up and went to his trunk and took his pistol out and secreted it about the bed, leaving the impression with the little fellow that he was taking a letter from the trunk. When supper was ready, his father, as usual, asked him what he would have brought in for his supper, but the son refused to eat anything saying he would rest and for the family to go on with their meal. They had hardly got seated at the table when the fatal shot was fired. The pistol had been held against the head behind the left ear and death was instantaneous. Besides a father, deceased leaves two brothers two sisters and a half brother. Interment was made in the family plot at Osa, April 14. Research Note: Ebonezer "Ebb" Wilson, son of Harlon Hugh Wilson. Date of death was April 12, 1912. Ebb's picture is found elsewhere on the Barry County web page. He is pictured with his brother Dote, who also died at age 33. Both had tuberculosis contracted from working in the zinc mines. |
| Newspaper | Crane Cronicle |
| Date | April 1912 |
| Death Cert Link | - |
| Resource | Crane Cronicle |
| Submitted by | Larry Wilson |
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