Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-10-14
SUICIDE OF JAMES T. MAYNARD.
He Was In Poor Health and Depressed and
Lonesome-Formery Manager Of Kurn
Hattin Homes

He Was In Poor Health and Depressed and
Lonesome-Formerly Manager Of Kurn
Hattin Homes.
The large number of our citizens who
had known and highly respected during
the past nine years, James r. Maynard,
were surprised and grieved Saturday at
the news that he had committed suicide
at the home of his brother William L.
Maynard of Shrewsbury, Mass, during
Thursday night.
For the past two years Mr.. Maynard
had a real estate and employment agency
in this village. previous to which he had
been the superintendent Of the Kurn Hat
tin Homes in Westminster and Saxtons
River, in which position he had always
been brought into business and social re-
lations with a large number of our peo-
pie. as well as throughout New England
He had a wide circle of warm friends
wherever he was known.
During the past summer he had suffered
somewhat with a heart trouble and a kid
ney disease, but with an indomitable will
he had kept at his business until about
three weeks ago. He was taken i'll at his
boarding place and his son, James T.
Maynard, jr., came up from Boston and
arranged to take him to his brothers
in Shrewsbury. He rallied somewhat al
though complaining of trouble with his
head a portion of the time Thursday
evening he was as well as at any time
since reaching Shrewsbury and retired at
the usual hour. The next morning he did
not come down to breakfast and when his
brother went to his room about O'Clock
he was found in bed. his face covered with
a towel saturated with choroform. evil
IDENTIFY having been dead some hours.
The funeral was held Monday afternoon
at the Shrewsbury Congregational church,
and the interment was in Mountain View
cemetery in Worcester, Mass, the pastor
of the Pilgrim church of that city ofiiciat-
ing. For many years while living in
Worcester he was an active worker and
deacon in that church. The family lot,
in which his two wives and one or two
children are buried, is in beautiful loca-
ton in that cemetery.
Mr.. Maynard was born in Northboro.
Mass. Aphil u. 1888, and his early
was passed in that town and in Shrews-
bury. His education was gained in the
public schools of Shrewsbury. His second
wife, Nancy F. Maynard. died about three
years ago, since which time Mr. Maynard
had seemed much depressed. but no one
expected he would take his own life.
Besides his brother he leaves a son. Jas.
T. jr., who is managing hotel in Bos-
ton, and who had been the past two or
three years in Dartmouth college
For several years Mr. Maynard carried
on a trucking business in Shrewsbury, and
later was engaged in the meat trade in
worcester. III 1881 ne was superintendent
of the Boston children's aid society school
FOR orphans and Maynard boys. at West
Newton, and he came to take charge of
Kurn Hattin Homes, living in West
minister. in 1895. His wife and son
We're associated with him in his work. the
former as matron and the latter as teach
er. owing to the failure OF his wife's
health in 1901 ne resigned this position
and came to Bellows Falls, where she soon
died and the son being in college. Mr..
Maynard became depressed and lonesome.
He was an earnest, whole -souled Christ
ian man. who held the highest esteem
of those who knew him intimately. and
his death comes as a personal bereavement
to many in different parts OF New En-
gland.