He married Alice E Jones on May 1, 1884 in Davis, IA.
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Barton County Democrat (Great Bend, Kansas) Thu, Oct 15, 1891. Page 4
Over The Morphine Route, S.B. Deupree, aged 36 years, died at the home of R. Herold, two miles northeast of Ellinwood on Sunday morning last. His death resulted from a dose of morphine, whether taken with suicidal intent of by accident no one will ever know. The circumstances as near as we can learn them, are as follows; Saturday evening Mr Deupree and J T Davis, after spending the afternoon and evening in social amusement in Ellinwood, went to the home of Herold with the intention of going hunting the next day. When Davis and Deupree went to bed, Deupree took a powder, and when asked by Davis what it was, said it was "quinine". He also remarked to Davis that if he - Deupree - snored too loud to punch him in ribs. In the morning Mr Davis got up and left Deupree asleep. Later they tried to wake him but failed; he seemed to grow sounder asleep all the time. Becoming alarmed, Dr. Dunn, of Ellinwood, was sent for. He came and worked with the sleeper, but without avail, and about 10 o'clock a.m. he ceased to breathe, his sleep being the one that "knows no waking." Several doses of morphine were found in the dead man's pockets, the drug having been purchased at a Hutchinson drug store. Deupree was in Great Bend Saturday, talking to friends and transacting business in his usual manner, nothing indicating that he contemplated quitting this weary world for the unknown. At Ellinwood he told a gentleman to write the Atchison wholesale grocery house for which he traveled that he, Deupree, "would not hold his job any longer-was going to quit them". He left a wife, but no children. His life was one of many ups and downs and his character a peculiar one. His remains were interred in Lyons Cemetery on Monday, the 12th.
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Barton County Democrat (Great Bend, Kansas) Thu, Oct 15, 1891. Page 4
Over The Morphine Route, S.B. Deupree, aged 36 years, died at the home of R. Herold, two miles northeast of Ellinwood on Sunday morning last. His death resulted from a dose of morphine, whether taken with suicidal intent of by accident no one will ever know. The circumstances as near as we can learn them, are as follows; Saturday evening Mr Deupree and J T Davis, after spending the afternoon and evening in social amusement in Ellinwood, went to the home of Herold with the intention of going hunting the next day. When Davis and Deupree went to bed, Deupree took a powder, and when asked by Davis what it was, said it was "quinine". He also remarked to Davis that if he - Deupree - snored too loud to punch him in ribs. In the morning Mr Davis got up and left Deupree asleep. Later they tried to wake him but failed; he seemed to grow sounder asleep all the time. Becoming alarmed, Dr. Dunn, of Ellinwood, was sent for. He came and worked with the sleeper, but without avail, and about 10 o'clock a.m. he ceased to breathe, his sleep being the one that "knows no waking." Several doses of morphine were found in the dead man's pockets, the drug having been purchased at a Hutchinson drug store. Deupree was in Great Bend Saturday, talking to friends and transacting business in his usual manner, nothing indicating that he contemplated quitting this weary world for the unknown. At Ellinwood he told a gentleman to write the Atchison wholesale grocery house for which he traveled that he, Deupree, "would not hold his job any longer-was going to quit them". He left a wife, but no children. His life was one of many ups and downs and his character a peculiar one. His remains were interred in Lyons Cemetery on Monday, the 12th.
He married Alice E Jones on May 1, 1884 in Davis, IA.
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Barton County Democrat (Great Bend, Kansas) Thu, Oct 15, 1891. Page 4
Over The Morphine Route, S.B. Deupree, aged 36 years, died at the home of R. Herold, two miles northeast of Ellinwood on Sunday morning last. His death resulted from a dose of morphine, whether taken with suicidal intent of by accident no one will ever know. The circumstances as near as we can learn them, are as follows; Saturday evening Mr Deupree and J T Davis, after spending the afternoon and evening in social amusement in Ellinwood, went to the home of Herold with the intention of going hunting the next day. When Davis and Deupree went to bed, Deupree took a powder, and when asked by Davis what it was, said it was "quinine". He also remarked to Davis that if he - Deupree - snored too loud to punch him in ribs. In the morning Mr Davis got up and left Deupree asleep. Later they tried to wake him but failed; he seemed to grow sounder asleep all the time. Becoming alarmed, Dr. Dunn, of Ellinwood, was sent for. He came and worked with the sleeper, but without avail, and about 10 o'clock a.m. he ceased to breathe, his sleep being the one that "knows no waking." Several doses of morphine were found in the dead man's pockets, the drug having been purchased at a Hutchinson drug store. Deupree was in Great Bend Saturday, talking to friends and transacting business in his usual manner, nothing indicating that he contemplated quitting this weary world for the unknown. At Ellinwood he told a gentleman to write the Atchison wholesale grocery house for which he traveled that he, Deupree, "would not hold his job any longer-was going to quit them". He left a wife, but no children. His life was one of many ups and downs and his character a peculiar one. His remains were interred in Lyons Cemetery on Monday, the 12th.
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Barton County Democrat (Great Bend, Kansas) Thu, Oct 15, 1891. Page 4
Over The Morphine Route, S.B. Deupree, aged 36 years, died at the home of R. Herold, two miles northeast of Ellinwood on Sunday morning last. His death resulted from a dose of morphine, whether taken with suicidal intent of by accident no one will ever know. The circumstances as near as we can learn them, are as follows; Saturday evening Mr Deupree and J T Davis, after spending the afternoon and evening in social amusement in Ellinwood, went to the home of Herold with the intention of going hunting the next day. When Davis and Deupree went to bed, Deupree took a powder, and when asked by Davis what it was, said it was "quinine". He also remarked to Davis that if he - Deupree - snored too loud to punch him in ribs. In the morning Mr Davis got up and left Deupree asleep. Later they tried to wake him but failed; he seemed to grow sounder asleep all the time. Becoming alarmed, Dr. Dunn, of Ellinwood, was sent for. He came and worked with the sleeper, but without avail, and about 10 o'clock a.m. he ceased to breathe, his sleep being the one that "knows no waking." Several doses of morphine were found in the dead man's pockets, the drug having been purchased at a Hutchinson drug store. Deupree was in Great Bend Saturday, talking to friends and transacting business in his usual manner, nothing indicating that he contemplated quitting this weary world for the unknown. At Ellinwood he told a gentleman to write the Atchison wholesale grocery house for which he traveled that he, Deupree, "would not hold his job any longer-was going to quit them". He left a wife, but no children. His life was one of many ups and downs and his character a peculiar one. His remains were interred in Lyons Cemetery on Monday, the 12th.
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