Daughter of W.E. and B.
TIRED OF LIFE--The town of Burton eight miles south of here was the scene of a horrible suicide shortly after noon Tuesday. Miss Lilly Tribble, aged 17 years, daughter of W. E. Tribble, deliberately took her own life. Her parents were away from home at the time, her mother being in Chillicothe and her father in Moberly. Shortly after dinner she told her married sister and twin sister that she was going to take her life and left the room. She had made similar threats on other occasions and no attention was paid to her. Lilly returned to the room and secured a lead pencil and again left the house, the sisters thinking she was going to answer a letter she had received from her lover at Fort Scott. It was not long before they were startled by the report of a gun and at once made their way to an outbuilding where they found their loved sister weltering in her life's blood, a double-barrel shotgun laying across her breast. She had placed the gun to her forehead and pulled the trigger, tearing a large hole in her head from which blood and brains slowly oozed. Dr. McGee was summoned to dress the wound, and picked up this note: "Well pa, all of you, bye bye. Am tired of this. Tell ma I sad good bye. I am your loving daughter Lillie. Gracie, tell Tommie I said good bye too." It is thought that she had became despondent over some love affair and was insane at the time.
HIGBEE NEWS (Randolph County, MO) 20 Jan 1894
(transcription by Kathy Bowlin)
TIRED OF LIFE--The town of Burton eight miles south of here was the scene of a horrible suicide shortly after noon Tuesday. Miss Lilly Tribble, aged 17 years, daughter of W. E. Tribble, deliberately took her own life. Her parents were away from home at the time, her mother being in Chillicothe and her father in Moberly. Shortly after dinner she told her married sister and twin sister that she was going to take her life and left the room. She had made similar threats on other occasions and no attention was paid to her. Lilly returned to the room and secured a lead pencil and again left the house, the sisters thinking she was going to answer a letter she had received from her lover at Fort Scott. It was not long before they were startled by the report of a gun and at once made their way to an outbuilding where they found their loved sister weltering in her life's blood, a double-barrel shotgun laying across her breast. She had placed the gun to her forehead and pulled the trigger, tearing a large hole in her head from which blood and brains slowly oozed. Dr. McGee was summoned to dress the wound, and picked up this note: "Well pa, all of you, bye bye. Am tired of this. Tell ma I sad good bye. I am your loving daughter Lillie. Gracie, tell Tommie I said good bye too." It is thought that she had became despondent over some love affair and was insane at the time.
HIGBEE NEWS (Randolph County, MO) 20 Jan 1894
(transcription by Kathy Bowlin)
Daughter of W.E. and B.
TIRED OF LIFE--The town of Burton eight miles south of here was the scene of a horrible suicide shortly after noon Tuesday. Miss Lilly Tribble, aged 17 years, daughter of W. E. Tribble, deliberately took her own life. Her parents were away from home at the time, her mother being in Chillicothe and her father in Moberly. Shortly after dinner she told her married sister and twin sister that she was going to take her life and left the room. She had made similar threats on other occasions and no attention was paid to her. Lilly returned to the room and secured a lead pencil and again left the house, the sisters thinking she was going to answer a letter she had received from her lover at Fort Scott. It was not long before they were startled by the report of a gun and at once made their way to an outbuilding where they found their loved sister weltering in her life's blood, a double-barrel shotgun laying across her breast. She had placed the gun to her forehead and pulled the trigger, tearing a large hole in her head from which blood and brains slowly oozed. Dr. McGee was summoned to dress the wound, and picked up this note: "Well pa, all of you, bye bye. Am tired of this. Tell ma I sad good bye. I am your loving daughter Lillie. Gracie, tell Tommie I said good bye too." It is thought that she had became despondent over some love affair and was insane at the time.
HIGBEE NEWS (Randolph County, MO) 20 Jan 1894
(transcription by Kathy Bowlin)
TIRED OF LIFE--The town of Burton eight miles south of here was the scene of a horrible suicide shortly after noon Tuesday. Miss Lilly Tribble, aged 17 years, daughter of W. E. Tribble, deliberately took her own life. Her parents were away from home at the time, her mother being in Chillicothe and her father in Moberly. Shortly after dinner she told her married sister and twin sister that she was going to take her life and left the room. She had made similar threats on other occasions and no attention was paid to her. Lilly returned to the room and secured a lead pencil and again left the house, the sisters thinking she was going to answer a letter she had received from her lover at Fort Scott. It was not long before they were startled by the report of a gun and at once made their way to an outbuilding where they found their loved sister weltering in her life's blood, a double-barrel shotgun laying across her breast. She had placed the gun to her forehead and pulled the trigger, tearing a large hole in her head from which blood and brains slowly oozed. Dr. McGee was summoned to dress the wound, and picked up this note: "Well pa, all of you, bye bye. Am tired of this. Tell ma I sad good bye. I am your loving daughter Lillie. Gracie, tell Tommie I said good bye too." It is thought that she had became despondent over some love affair and was insane at the time.
HIGBEE NEWS (Randolph County, MO) 20 Jan 1894
(transcription by Kathy Bowlin)
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