Illinois, Marriage Index, 1860-1920
Name: Bellyorce Josephine Mathis
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 15 Jul 1891
Marriage Place: Johnson, Illinois, USA
Spouse Name: Marion T Cagle
Spouse Gender: Male
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Their daughter, Elsie, had some memories of her mother smoking a corncob pipe. Her father worked in a coal mine. Each day he would take his lunch to work in a bucket that served as a lunch pail. When he came home, the bucket would be filled with beer, which they drank like iced tea.
Journal-News Special Service.
The Evansville Journal
Wednesday, Dec. 15, 1908
"CONFESSION OF A DYING WOMAN CAUSES SCANDAL
Marion, Ill., Dec. 16 - Mrs. Marion Cagle, of Marion, died at her home here today after several days suffering with peritonitis, which followed, according to her deathbed declaration in the presence of State's Attorney D.T. Hartwell and witness, two unlawful operations performed in Murphysboro, Ill., December 1, the other three days later.
Saturday morning, realizing death was near, Mrs. Cagle stated she wished to make a statement to the authorities, and State's Attorney D.T. Hartwell was called.
After taking the declaration State's Attorney Hartwell communicated with States's Attorney, Ike Levi, of Jack County, and he will come to Marion to conduct further investigations.
Coroner Samuel Russell conducted a postmortem examination tonight, and the evidence of Istham Copher, a married man of this place, an eye witness to the operation, has been taken.
He and the dead woman were members of the Holiness Church here, and he states that it was through his eagerness to befriend his fellow church members that caused him to take part in the affair.
The dead woman was highly respected. Her husband, Marion Cagle, mysteriously disappeared last Aught, and no trace of his whereabouts had been learned."
Name: Bellyorce Josephine Mathis
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 15 Jul 1891
Marriage Place: Johnson, Illinois, USA
Spouse Name: Marion T Cagle
Spouse Gender: Male
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Their daughter, Elsie, had some memories of her mother smoking a corncob pipe. Her father worked in a coal mine. Each day he would take his lunch to work in a bucket that served as a lunch pail. When he came home, the bucket would be filled with beer, which they drank like iced tea.
Journal-News Special Service.
The Evansville Journal
Wednesday, Dec. 15, 1908
"CONFESSION OF A DYING WOMAN CAUSES SCANDAL
Marion, Ill., Dec. 16 - Mrs. Marion Cagle, of Marion, died at her home here today after several days suffering with peritonitis, which followed, according to her deathbed declaration in the presence of State's Attorney D.T. Hartwell and witness, two unlawful operations performed in Murphysboro, Ill., December 1, the other three days later.
Saturday morning, realizing death was near, Mrs. Cagle stated she wished to make a statement to the authorities, and State's Attorney D.T. Hartwell was called.
After taking the declaration State's Attorney Hartwell communicated with States's Attorney, Ike Levi, of Jack County, and he will come to Marion to conduct further investigations.
Coroner Samuel Russell conducted a postmortem examination tonight, and the evidence of Istham Copher, a married man of this place, an eye witness to the operation, has been taken.
He and the dead woman were members of the Holiness Church here, and he states that it was through his eagerness to befriend his fellow church members that caused him to take part in the affair.
The dead woman was highly respected. Her husband, Marion Cagle, mysteriously disappeared last Aught, and no trace of his whereabouts had been learned."
Illinois, Marriage Index, 1860-1920
Name: Bellyorce Josephine Mathis
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 15 Jul 1891
Marriage Place: Johnson, Illinois, USA
Spouse Name: Marion T Cagle
Spouse Gender: Male
-----
Their daughter, Elsie, had some memories of her mother smoking a corncob pipe. Her father worked in a coal mine. Each day he would take his lunch to work in a bucket that served as a lunch pail. When he came home, the bucket would be filled with beer, which they drank like iced tea.
Journal-News Special Service.
The Evansville Journal
Wednesday, Dec. 15, 1908
"CONFESSION OF A DYING WOMAN CAUSES SCANDAL
Marion, Ill., Dec. 16 - Mrs. Marion Cagle, of Marion, died at her home here today after several days suffering with peritonitis, which followed, according to her deathbed declaration in the presence of State's Attorney D.T. Hartwell and witness, two unlawful operations performed in Murphysboro, Ill., December 1, the other three days later.
Saturday morning, realizing death was near, Mrs. Cagle stated she wished to make a statement to the authorities, and State's Attorney D.T. Hartwell was called.
After taking the declaration State's Attorney Hartwell communicated with States's Attorney, Ike Levi, of Jack County, and he will come to Marion to conduct further investigations.
Coroner Samuel Russell conducted a postmortem examination tonight, and the evidence of Istham Copher, a married man of this place, an eye witness to the operation, has been taken.
He and the dead woman were members of the Holiness Church here, and he states that it was through his eagerness to befriend his fellow church members that caused him to take part in the affair.
The dead woman was highly respected. Her husband, Marion Cagle, mysteriously disappeared last Aught, and no trace of his whereabouts had been learned."
Name: Bellyorce Josephine Mathis
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 15 Jul 1891
Marriage Place: Johnson, Illinois, USA
Spouse Name: Marion T Cagle
Spouse Gender: Male
-----
Their daughter, Elsie, had some memories of her mother smoking a corncob pipe. Her father worked in a coal mine. Each day he would take his lunch to work in a bucket that served as a lunch pail. When he came home, the bucket would be filled with beer, which they drank like iced tea.
Journal-News Special Service.
The Evansville Journal
Wednesday, Dec. 15, 1908
"CONFESSION OF A DYING WOMAN CAUSES SCANDAL
Marion, Ill., Dec. 16 - Mrs. Marion Cagle, of Marion, died at her home here today after several days suffering with peritonitis, which followed, according to her deathbed declaration in the presence of State's Attorney D.T. Hartwell and witness, two unlawful operations performed in Murphysboro, Ill., December 1, the other three days later.
Saturday morning, realizing death was near, Mrs. Cagle stated she wished to make a statement to the authorities, and State's Attorney D.T. Hartwell was called.
After taking the declaration State's Attorney Hartwell communicated with States's Attorney, Ike Levi, of Jack County, and he will come to Marion to conduct further investigations.
Coroner Samuel Russell conducted a postmortem examination tonight, and the evidence of Istham Copher, a married man of this place, an eye witness to the operation, has been taken.
He and the dead woman were members of the Holiness Church here, and he states that it was through his eagerness to befriend his fellow church members that caused him to take part in the affair.
The dead woman was highly respected. Her husband, Marion Cagle, mysteriously disappeared last Aught, and no trace of his whereabouts had been learned."
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