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Obituary for Roy Woods

from The Republican (Danville, Indiana)--issue of Thursday, March 12, 1914—page 1, column 6:

TOOK HIS LIFE
Fearful of Illness, Roy Woods Passes Into Great Unknown

Roy Woods, 33 years old, living on the Dick Hayes farm, committed suicide, Monday afternoon, by hanging himself from a rafter in the barn. The body was found by a young son upon his return from school in the afternoon. Woods had taken the hay-rope and attached it to a rafter and the other end around his neck and then jumped. His neck was broken although his feet reached to the hay in the mow.

Woods' first wife died after a long illness from tuberculosis. He had often said he would never endure the suffering she had if he took the disease; that he would end it all in a speedier way. He had been ill for several days, and Saturday, while in town, called on his doctor. From the talk he had with the doctor, he became possessed of the idea that his lungs were affected. It seems that he brooded over the matter until Monday afternoon and in a fit of temporary derangement put his oft repeated threat into execution. He leaves a widow whom he married a few months ago and three children, two boys and a girl. He was the son of George Woods, of Danville, and was counted a good, honest, industrious man who could be counted on to perform life's duties, faithfully and to the best of his ability. He carried a policy in the State Life company which he had kept up for 13 years. The funeral was yesterday afternoon with interment in the South cemetery.