The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-10-02
DEsPoNDENT OVER CONDITION
r. d. CUNNINGHAM ENDS LIFE.

II. ID. CUNNINGHAM ENDS LIFE.
: The dead body of r. ID. Cunning
ham of st. Louis, brother of Mr.. } .
B. Cunningham of this place, was
found in the Hospital yard at Bonne
| Terre last Monday morning with an
empty bottle that had contained car
bolic acid lying by him. Mr.. Cum
ningham had been In serious physi-
cal condition from an operation,
performed on him last January for
bladder trouble, which never prop
erly healed. He had been told that
another operation would have tn be
performed before he could ever ex-
/ pect to recover from his trouble.
While his general health aside from
his bladder trouble appeared TO be
good, he grew respondent over the
| outlook.
Last Sunday afternoon about half
past one O'Clock he told his wife he
thought he would take walk, and
she suggested that she wonld go
along with him, but IL was raining
and he dissuaded her on account of
the weather. He boarded train
that afternoon, care down to Bonne
Terre and went out to MIR. Milt
Covlngt0n's where he took supper.
About eight O'Clock he started to
leave and Mr.. Covington tried to
persuade him to remain for the
night, but he firmly declined, and In
this connection said he might as
well be dead as In his condition and
perhaps they might find his body ly.
ing around there some time soon.
| Insisting on going, he left MIR, Cow
ington's and, as already said, his
body was found the next morning
, in the yard of the Bonne Terre Hos
pital. The bottle of carbolic acid
had the label OF a drug store at 340l
Market street, st. Louis, which is
about square from where MIR.
Cunningham lived, and evidenced
that he contemplated suicide when
| he left the city.
Mr.. Cunningham was born March
%, 1886, near Pennington and reared
In this county. He married Miss
Alice Turley, who survives, and
to them two children were born, a
daughter and son-Mrs. Jessie Har-
per of Evansville, Indiana, and the
son, Arrahna Cunningham, who
! lived In st. Louis with his parents.
They were notified std IL was de-
cided that his body should be brought
here and inferred in the Odd Fel-
lows cemetery, he being an old
member of ST. Francois Lodge No.
IS /. o. o. F. His body was brought
from Bonne Terre Monday to the
home of his brother, Mr.. J. b. Gun.
ningham, and Sergeant Joseph
Alexander of the st. Louis police
force, his brother-in-law, came down
Monday evening to arrange for the
funeral. Mrs. Cunningham, her
daughter and son arrived here Tues
day. Tae funeral took place that
afternoon, aud his body was laid al
rest with the rites of the Independ.
ent Order of Odd Fellows.
Mr.. Cunningham was a man OF
upright character ana well respected
by all who knew him. He had q
number Of relatives and friends here
and in the county, and the sym.
pathy Of all go out to tho bereavca
wife, daughter and son In theil
great sorrow over the distressing
death of their husband and father
Sergeant Joseph Alexander o.
the st. Louis police force was dowr
this week to attend the funeral o
his brother-in-law, II. d. Cunning
ham. Mr.. Alexander, who wa,
reared and married In this county
is one of the oldest mernbers of tn,
force In point OF service and it goel
without saying one of the best an,
most trusted and efficient.