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Death by Own Action Shocks City at Ward Farm Home
Report from a Marshall city in 1886 details the suicide of Edward Ward at his Division street residence. He was found hanging in the barn, with a rope improvised from a doubled clothes line. Witnesses describe a calm morning, a bouquet for his daughter in law, and no clear motive. A coroner’s inquest returned a verdict of death by his own action. Ward, 65, a longtime resident with $12,000, left a wife, five sons, and four daughters. funeral services followed at Trinity church with large attendance.
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Edward Ward
Division Street
Ward
Sity
Mr. Ward
Robert Ward
Geo. H. Greene
H. M. Merrill
John Wiseman
Henry Cronin
Tossey
O. Doud
W. A. Lepper
Robert J. Ward
Dinger
Nother
Dix
W. van Brunt
Tis Yard
Gous
Ong
J. E. Walton
Trinity Church
L. E. Gollup
Ethlyo
Ethridge
O'Keefe
F. A. Stuart
Greene
Bradley
Prospect Street
Woodrnft
Ald
Day
Peck
Strees
Strees and Bridge Committee
Nation of Finance Committee
Mente
Recorder
Stuart
Waernksas
Common Council
Witereas
Edward
Julians Hagleman Ay
Gideon Watroua
Thea
Cook
H. Gorham
N. J. Frick