Sarah
E Beaupre
Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 9 August 1904, page 1
The mystery of the life and identity of Sarah E Beaupre, the Bellevue Ky. woman, who committed suicide, revealed in a diary written just before she died, is so filled with sensational charges as to indicate a life time of sorrow and oppression. The diary was found among her effects by Coroner Higgins. The remains of Mrs. Beaupre were buried from her house, 121 Retreat st. in Evergreen Cemetery Tuesday afternoon at the request of Mrs. Mary Schmidt, of Indianapolis, wife of a real estate agent who transacted business for Mrs. Beaupre.
Mrs. Schmidt is vising friends in Cincinnati and assumed charge of affairs. Higgins of Newport, learned that Mrs. Beaupre has no relatives living except a son in law in Quebec. In her dying statement she charges her father with having made her life the wreck it proved to be. She charges that from the time she was a child until only a few years ago, he tried to accomplish her downfall; in childhood he persecuted her and at maturity maligned her.
The diary says she was born March 18, 1854 in Cincinnati. Her father and mother were both French, he being then employed on the Panhandle Road. At 17 she was married to James Beaupre of Quebec Canada. She tells of her mother’s death by poison, the blame of which was thrown upon her by her father and of the later death of her husband in Indianapolis, who was found with his throat cut, of the accusation of murder against her by her father and the poisoning of the minds of her children against her.
“One day mother took liquor left for me and became ill. She said she was poisoned and died Oct6, 1880 and before she died, she asked to have the doctor but father refused it. She would not take medicine because she said she was being poisoned. When she was buried, father placed a man at the grave to keep anyone from disturbing it, the doctor having insisted there should be an autopsy.” When her husband was found dead, she was in St Louis and proved an alibi.
Coroner Higgins verdict Tuesday declared the woman committed suicide.