EDWARDS, Epha “Effie” (Carpenter)

Date of birth:  About 1869
Date of death: 14 Jul 1897 – Carpentersville, Putnam County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, July 23, 1897,
Volume XXXVIII Number 2, page 2 column 4

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Suicide of Mrs. Edwards.

The following dispatch from Roach­dale will be of special interest to many in the western part of Johnson County:

“Mrs. Effie Edwards, nee Carpenter, wife of Albert Edwards, took a rifle unobserved out into the orchard and shot and killed herself at 3 o’clock at the home of her father-in-law, James U. Edwards, near here. She had been in ill health, and despondency bordering on insanity is probably the cause of the suicide. They are prominent people here.”

Albert Edwards conducted a store at Providence a year or so ago, and afterwards moved the stock to Tra­falgar. He afterwards went on the road in the interest of Crouch & Son of Lafayette, selling German Coach Stal­lions. His wife’s people live in Wash­ington.

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Note: The Putnam County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, referencing Book H-3, page 18, records that Epha Edwards, a twenty-eight-year-old white female, died 14 Jul 1897 in Carpentersville.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry