SUICIDE ON BANNER.
Wyatt Rector Takes His Own Life By Sending a Bullet Through His Brain.
A deplorable suicide occurred on Banner Sunday. Wyatt Rector, a farmer living on the Bryant farm a few miles west of Holton, shot himself through the brain with a rifle Sunday about noon and died a few hours afterward.
Wyatt is about 45 years old and leaves a wife and several children, some of whom are nearly grown. He has lived on the Bryant farm for thirteen years, but was compelled to move this spring and the worry over moving is supposed to have unbalanced his mind. He had been known to talk of suicide to his neighbors on different occasions recently. Sunday shortly after dinner he went to the basement and placing the muzzle of his rifle to his eye, discharged the gun. The ball penetrated his brain, and he died at about 4:30 o'clock. Drs. M. B. and J. B. Smyth were summoned but were unable to save him.
The funeral services were held at the Banner church Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, and the remains laid to rest in the cemetery.
The deceased was considered a good citizen and was highly respected in the neighborhood in which he lived. His bereaved family have the sympathy of all their friends in their great sorrow.
--The Holton Recorder
(Holton, Kansas), Thurs., Febr. 12, 1902, Pg. 1
Wyatt Rector Takes His Own Life By Sending a Bullet Through His Brain.
A deplorable suicide occurred on Banner Sunday. Wyatt Rector, a farmer living on the Bryant farm a few miles west of Holton, shot himself through the brain with a rifle Sunday about noon and died a few hours afterward.
Wyatt is about 45 years old and leaves a wife and several children, some of whom are nearly grown. He has lived on the Bryant farm for thirteen years, but was compelled to move this spring and the worry over moving is supposed to have unbalanced his mind. He had been known to talk of suicide to his neighbors on different occasions recently. Sunday shortly after dinner he went to the basement and placing the muzzle of his rifle to his eye, discharged the gun. The ball penetrated his brain, and he died at about 4:30 o'clock. Drs. M. B. and J. B. Smyth were summoned but were unable to save him.
The funeral services were held at the Banner church Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, and the remains laid to rest in the cemetery.
The deceased was considered a good citizen and was highly respected in the neighborhood in which he lived. His bereaved family have the sympathy of all their friends in their great sorrow.
--The Holton Recorder
(Holton, Kansas), Thurs., Febr. 12, 1902, Pg. 1
SUICIDE ON BANNER.
Wyatt Rector Takes His Own Life By Sending a Bullet Through His Brain.
A deplorable suicide occurred on Banner Sunday. Wyatt Rector, a farmer living on the Bryant farm a few miles west of Holton, shot himself through the brain with a rifle Sunday about noon and died a few hours afterward.
Wyatt is about 45 years old and leaves a wife and several children, some of whom are nearly grown. He has lived on the Bryant farm for thirteen years, but was compelled to move this spring and the worry over moving is supposed to have unbalanced his mind. He had been known to talk of suicide to his neighbors on different occasions recently. Sunday shortly after dinner he went to the basement and placing the muzzle of his rifle to his eye, discharged the gun. The ball penetrated his brain, and he died at about 4:30 o'clock. Drs. M. B. and J. B. Smyth were summoned but were unable to save him.
The funeral services were held at the Banner church Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, and the remains laid to rest in the cemetery.
The deceased was considered a good citizen and was highly respected in the neighborhood in which he lived. His bereaved family have the sympathy of all their friends in their great sorrow.
--The Holton Recorder
(Holton, Kansas), Thurs., Febr. 12, 1902, Pg. 1
Wyatt Rector Takes His Own Life By Sending a Bullet Through His Brain.
A deplorable suicide occurred on Banner Sunday. Wyatt Rector, a farmer living on the Bryant farm a few miles west of Holton, shot himself through the brain with a rifle Sunday about noon and died a few hours afterward.
Wyatt is about 45 years old and leaves a wife and several children, some of whom are nearly grown. He has lived on the Bryant farm for thirteen years, but was compelled to move this spring and the worry over moving is supposed to have unbalanced his mind. He had been known to talk of suicide to his neighbors on different occasions recently. Sunday shortly after dinner he went to the basement and placing the muzzle of his rifle to his eye, discharged the gun. The ball penetrated his brain, and he died at about 4:30 o'clock. Drs. M. B. and J. B. Smyth were summoned but were unable to save him.
The funeral services were held at the Banner church Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, and the remains laid to rest in the cemetery.
The deceased was considered a good citizen and was highly respected in the neighborhood in which he lived. His bereaved family have the sympathy of all their friends in their great sorrow.
--The Holton Recorder
(Holton, Kansas), Thurs., Febr. 12, 1902, Pg. 1
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WYATT H RECTOR
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AUG 21 1854
DIED
FEB 9 1902
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