The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-07-04
ISLANDER.
Trngic Sulcide Of a Young GirI.

llliS stout 3 lsuni hNck OF HUME
committed suicide on last Monday even
ing by hanging herself to the limb Of u
tree. The cause of the rash act ID said
to have been tho interference Of her
father aud brothers in her love affairs,
and the accusation preferred against her
by them, Of stepping outside the bounds
OF propriety, modesty and chastity, and
being cacienis For some time there
had been u fierce Lroil going on in the
family, which terminated on two or
three occasions in the Young Indy being
chastiscd by fagellNtion, because she
wouldn't quit tho object other devotion,
1t has only been Il few weeks since Il
limb was cut ut church, in the presence
Of u hundred people, to thrash her with,
and but = short time since II Of her
brothers called her obscene names and
took q sled standard and gave her an
Uumorciiul beating because she dared
reply. She was twenty years Of ace,
high spirited and sensitive and the dis
grace, insult ard SANDER beapod upon
her by those who should have guarded
and defended hen good name, was more
than she could bear, and she in q mo-
m0nt OF desperation made the terrible
resolution which ended in her death.
On last Monday evening a week she Lett
Allen Uox's 4 bCuther-in-law with whom
she had been staying since the death OF
her mother, stating that she was going
to Stout's Run, and ior them not to be
uneasy about her il she was not back
at the proper time About s O'clock
Tuesday morning MI, John Shiyelry, in
crossing to Cox's discovered her body
hanging to an oak tree, "a corner tree
between Boyer, Puntony and Cox,) in
full sight of the house which she had left.
The alayIn was Immediately given, and
the coroner summoned and an inquest
held.
On the tree to which she hung her
self she appended the following note,
which explains her sorrows and troubles.
and gives the reason for her terrible act
in language that cannot be misunder-
stood:
81 am tired Of life. | do not wish to
live any longer, nor do I wish to impose
upon any one. God forgive those who
have manufactured and reported false
hoods upon me, for such may tske it
home to their hearts TINT they are the
sole cause Of me committing this rash
act-suicide l wish to bo buried in
my cloth coat. If there are amy doubts
Or fears in regard to the condition Of
my person you can have mt examined,
james Ralstin never treated me indie
Gently in no respect whatever. May God
bless him, and may he live longand hap
ply. Toll him that he was my last
thought, and that I do this not on his
account, but only because l am tired OF
living in such q wicked world. | freely
forgive everybody for every fault, !
have nothing to live for. Distribute
such books and other things to those
whose lanes are in them. [ request
that my father and brother Thomas shall
have everything belonging to me that
Will be OF any use to them. L do not
want anybody to grieye for me, as | am
willing to die and iesl it my duty to ter.
inmate my own life. May God bless
everybody in the world, and I hope thc
day mas come when all liars have taken
an oath that they viii never tell anOth,
er lie. No persou has ever said harm
OF NE and told the truth, except whe1
angry, l took the name OF God in vain
l feel that God has forgiven me for that
l hope you all will quit telling lies OF
innocent people. l have nothing more
to say but farewell to all tho world
Amen"
This note was written on Sunday
June 2, the day previous to the act, ant
seems to have been carefully read oven
from the fact that Interlincations NJ,
made in several instances. The book.
mentioned embrace n little library @
some forty or fifty volumes, which sh.
had gathered up, and in which, as sh,
mentions, she had Mt some time writer
the names Of such persons as she desired
to possess them after her death.
The cord with which she hung hersel
was about six feet long and was cut from
the cord Of her bed, and the limb t
which she made it fast was near . fenc
on which she mounted, and after maxim,
everything secure, jumped of. She die,
without much struggling, and her fac
was neither distorted or swollen. He
feet were touching the ground whe,
' found, but inasmuch Us the grass an
/, weeds upon which they rested were nc
disturbed it is likely that her weight o
the limb, after death drew it down. Sh
is said to have been a good looking, in
te!ligent girl, respected by all who kne'
her, and esteemed by the people anon
whom she dwslt, and possessed of
/, character above reproach. Young Raj!
L. ton was not of age, but made an attemr
IN tol-o ort l;canOo IN rb;,b bo fo,Ia,