Published in The Tennessean, Friday, June 17, 1887, page 6.
East Tennessean: Miss Sarah Woolsey, an estimable lady living near Ten Mile Stand, committed suicide last Saturday by hanging herself. No cause or reason is assigned for the rash act. She was a rather aged maiden lady, owned a small farm, and was comfortably fixed, being well-to-do. A sister and niece lived with her. The niece recently took sick and died rather suddenly, and it is thought, perhaps, her grief at her death dethroned her reason at the time, as it occurred shortly afterwards. It seems to have been deliberate. She took from the stable a plow-line, and going to the woods near by, mounted a stump, fastened one end to a limb of a tree, and the other around her neck, and swung off. She was quite dead when found by some of the household. She was a sister of Samuel Woolsey, Esq., of this county.
Note; Her niece mentioned may have been Dicey Jane Woolsey, born 1864 as a daughter of John Peoples Woolsey, killed in Nashville, TN in 1863 in the Civil War and Margaret Angeline Ellis.
East Tennessean: Miss Sarah Woolsey, an estimable lady living near Ten Mile Stand, committed suicide last Saturday by hanging herself. No cause or reason is assigned for the rash act. She was a rather aged maiden lady, owned a small farm, and was comfortably fixed, being well-to-do. A sister and niece lived with her. The niece recently took sick and died rather suddenly, and it is thought, perhaps, her grief at her death dethroned her reason at the time, as it occurred shortly afterwards. It seems to have been deliberate. She took from the stable a plow-line, and going to the woods near by, mounted a stump, fastened one end to a limb of a tree, and the other around her neck, and swung off. She was quite dead when found by some of the household. She was a sister of Samuel Woolsey, Esq., of this county.
Note; Her niece mentioned may have been Dicey Jane Woolsey, born 1864 as a daughter of John Peoples Woolsey, killed in Nashville, TN in 1863 in the Civil War and Margaret Angeline Ellis.
Published in The Tennessean, Friday, June 17, 1887, page 6.
East Tennessean: Miss Sarah Woolsey, an estimable lady living near Ten Mile Stand, committed suicide last Saturday by hanging herself. No cause or reason is assigned for the rash act. She was a rather aged maiden lady, owned a small farm, and was comfortably fixed, being well-to-do. A sister and niece lived with her. The niece recently took sick and died rather suddenly, and it is thought, perhaps, her grief at her death dethroned her reason at the time, as it occurred shortly afterwards. It seems to have been deliberate. She took from the stable a plow-line, and going to the woods near by, mounted a stump, fastened one end to a limb of a tree, and the other around her neck, and swung off. She was quite dead when found by some of the household. She was a sister of Samuel Woolsey, Esq., of this county.
Note; Her niece mentioned may have been Dicey Jane Woolsey, born 1864 as a daughter of John Peoples Woolsey, killed in Nashville, TN in 1863 in the Civil War and Margaret Angeline Ellis.
East Tennessean: Miss Sarah Woolsey, an estimable lady living near Ten Mile Stand, committed suicide last Saturday by hanging herself. No cause or reason is assigned for the rash act. She was a rather aged maiden lady, owned a small farm, and was comfortably fixed, being well-to-do. A sister and niece lived with her. The niece recently took sick and died rather suddenly, and it is thought, perhaps, her grief at her death dethroned her reason at the time, as it occurred shortly afterwards. It seems to have been deliberate. She took from the stable a plow-line, and going to the woods near by, mounted a stump, fastened one end to a limb of a tree, and the other around her neck, and swung off. She was quite dead when found by some of the household. She was a sister of Samuel Woolsey, Esq., of this county.
Note; Her niece mentioned may have been Dicey Jane Woolsey, born 1864 as a daughter of John Peoples Woolsey, killed in Nashville, TN in 1863 in the Civil War and Margaret Angeline Ellis.
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