The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-28
4 RoPNANpA CLoTnEs PRop

serve 70 Give mrs. ann EllGh Jones q
Means OF EEFess From the Ills aud MIS-.
fortunes OF THIS Life, at bridgeport
Last Saturday.
Early Saturday morning the iislsss
body Of Ann Eliza Jones was found
dangling from clothes prop in the back.
yard Of the premlsss.Ot Madison Boggs, a
negro, on the hill southwest Of Bridgeport.
Tho Coroner at Bellairs was notified, and
during the day held an inquest at which
the following facts were elected:
Early Friday morning Mrs. Jones left
BoEgs' house for the purpose OF consult
ing DR.. John Cooke at Bridgeport, with ref
erenCe to the disposition OF her body alter
death. Her reason for doing this was that
she owed DR.. Cooke q bill for professional
services, which she bad no present
means OF disCharging, She did not
find the Doctor in his Office but lett
note requesting him tn call on her at
Bo2gs' house In the afternoon. This be
did, when she entered into an agreement
with him, by the terms Of which he was to
have her body, IS soon % ahe died, the
consideration Tor this being the dis
charge Of the debt due DR.. Cooke. Soon
after the physician left Mrs. Jones dis.
played a receipt from him showing that
she no longer owed him snything. She left
the house Friday night after which sha
was never seen alive again by the inmates
and early Saturday morning Bogga found
her hanging as aforesaid.
DR.. Cooke stated that the old lady had
been indebted to him for professional ser
vices to the amount OF SIT, and had asked
him what body would be worth for dis
seCting purposes. He had informed her
that q good fresh corpse would be valued
at about S25. She then asked him il he
would take her body at death IN leu o.
his bill, to which he replied sail right
He regarded the matter "a joke, and ia
this spirit referred her 10 law
yer. She acted upon his advice, and IL
the evening appeared with the following
legal instrument:
Know all men by these preIenh;
That l, Anna Eliza Jones, for and In
consideration Of seventeen dollars In hanG
paid, the receipt whereof Is hereby
acknowledged, from DR.. Cooke, OF Bridge
port, Ohio, do hereby give, grant and con
yey 10 said DR.. John Cooke, my body Ritel
my death, to be disposed OF as said DR.
John Cooke may desire, either for disco
tion by any medical college or for his own
private use for dissection said DR.. John
Cooke to have immediate possession nnd
control OF my body US so0n as life therein
shall be extinct, and wherever my body
may DO at that time.
II IL hereby witnessed that the real con-
siderRtion OF this deed is the release by
said DR.. Cooke Of his claim against me fol
medical professional services to myself and
granddaughter Agnes Racine, which
I amounts to seventeen dollars above men
toned, and by accepting this deed ssid
Dr.. John Cooke releases said claim.
In witness whereof, | have hereunto eel
my hand and seal, this 25th day Of March
1881. ANNA ELIZA JONES Seal
0 The signing and sealing OF the above In
0 strument was witnessed by the underSign
3 ed at the request oil said Anna Eliza Jones
) Witnesses. J. E. MCDONALD,
WIN, W. CoNowAY.
State OF Ohio, Belmont county, 81:
Before me, +. q. Robinson, a notary
3 public in and for said county, personally
appeared the above named Anna Eliza
D Jones, and acknowledged the signing and
sealing oil the above instrument to be her
voluntary act and deed, this 25lh day OIL
March, 1881, +. .: ROBINSON,
Notary Public,
Briefly, the history OF Mrs. Jones is az
follows: Always poor, she early in life
married white man by whom abe had
several children, aud shortly after hif
death she married negro, to whom also
she bore children. Advanced in yearG
her second husband died, and left her Ia
make her own living, She lived in variouE
States, and from time 10 time she was
heard to declare that ahe would commit
. suicide, and did make several attempts,
until the threat at last became common
place, and was no longer treated seriously
by her friends.
During the last month, however, she
! had made several attempts, one by Tan
nerizing herself, and again with revolver,
and still later by the peaceful and popu-
lar laudanum," but all TO no purpose.
Among her descendants there was O
grand. daughter by the name OF Racine, for
whom abe had q fond attachment, and al.
ways appeared delighted when near her.
This daughter, Initiating the example oil
her grandmother, had taken up with ne.
gro named Boggs, and was living with
him at the scene Of the suicide.
Boggs lie married and has family living
in Bridgeport, but tho superior iASCina.
tions Of the white girl proved too much
for him, and the family was deserted. He
was tried for adultery last year, but man.
aged 10 escape con viCtion and punishment.
The affair created quite a sensation at
Bridgeport and vicinity.
DR.. Cook had the old lady buried.