The Eskridge Star

July 2, 1903

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Obituary

Isaac Montgomery was born in Bonbrook, Franklin County, Virginia, Nov. 28,  1840. Died in Mission Creek township, Wabaunsee county, Kansas June 27, 1903 from a gun shot wound inflicted by his own hands. He was of a naturally gloomy disposition and his health health having failed him, he felt the cares of living to heavily and the derangement of mind led him to self destruction.

Mr. Montgomery was an honest moral man, reared in the Dunkard faith but never joined the order. However about the first of last April he professed  in own home to have accepted Christ as a savior.  He was a faithful husband to Lydia C. Gish, whom he married February 6, 1883 and who with their son, Fred and daughter Edna mourn their loss.

The funeral took place from the late residence in Mission Creek township and the interment was in the Eskridge cemetery.

Card of Thanks

We desire to thank the good neighbors and kind friends whose opportune assistance and helpful words of  sympathy and condolences were so greatly appreciated by us when our husband and father passed into the great beyond. God shield wach of you from like trials and sorrows. 

                                                                                                   MRS. LYDIA C. MONTGOMERY  AND CHILDREN

Alma Enterprise

July 03, 1903

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Isaac Montgomery, an old gentleman who bought a farm last spring out on the high prairie north east of Eskridge, across the road from Atkinson's committed suicide last Friday by shooting himself through the head twice with a 22 caliber rifle. He died Saturday at noon, leaving a wife and two children. He took the rifle and went to the barn telling his wife he was going to shoot rats. They heard him shoot, and after while went to call him for dinner and found him lying in the barn with two bullet holes in his head. How did he shoot himself the second time? It is said that he had been a little "off" in his mind all spring and perhaps had brooded over the idea that he had paid too much for the farm he bought, which we understand was about $3,300 for 160 acres.