HIAL ROWLEY died at his residence at Findley's Lake Mina Twp, Chautauqua Co NY Sept 28th 1891 aged 93 years and 8 months;
He was born in Windsor Hartford Co CT Jan 27, 1798 and moved with his fathers family to Ripley NY in 1813, He was married Jan 3, 1823 and settled on his farm in Mina in March and living there for 52 years. His Companion and 4 children preceded him in death, for the past 17 years he has resided with his only remaining daughter Mrs J. A. HILL
He articled his farm in 1822
buried near his farm is his son JOHN ROWLEY
Jan 23, 1879, page 3:
Shocking Suicide.
At Findley's Lake, Chautauqua county, N.Y., last Sunday evening, a man by the name of John Rowley, son of Hial Rowley, suicided by shooting himself with a rifle. He was unmarried, and resided with his brother-in-law, John Hill, at that place. Early in the evening he went up stairs to his room and shortly after the report of a gun was heard in that direction. The family hastened to the room, where, lying upon the floor, with a bullet hole in his head, from which the blood was flowing freely, they beheld the lifeless form of the
unfortunate victim. The ball entered at the forehead and passes directly
through the brain, coming out at the back of the head. He was about thirty-
five years of fage, temperate, honest and respectable.
Financial embarrassment, coupled with unrequited love, is assigned as the
cause of the rash act. It is stated deceased was affected with aberration of
mind. On Saturday the day preceding the one on which he destroyed his life,
he went to the woods, only a short distance from the house, and there under a
tree where in summer he had often lounged, and doubtless stocked his mind with
silly love stories, dug his own grave and left a request to be buried there.
He was born in Windsor Hartford Co CT Jan 27, 1798 and moved with his fathers family to Ripley NY in 1813, He was married Jan 3, 1823 and settled on his farm in Mina in March and living there for 52 years. His Companion and 4 children preceded him in death, for the past 17 years he has resided with his only remaining daughter Mrs J. A. HILL
He articled his farm in 1822
buried near his farm is his son JOHN ROWLEY
Jan 23, 1879, page 3:
Shocking Suicide.
At Findley's Lake, Chautauqua county, N.Y., last Sunday evening, a man by the name of John Rowley, son of Hial Rowley, suicided by shooting himself with a rifle. He was unmarried, and resided with his brother-in-law, John Hill, at that place. Early in the evening he went up stairs to his room and shortly after the report of a gun was heard in that direction. The family hastened to the room, where, lying upon the floor, with a bullet hole in his head, from which the blood was flowing freely, they beheld the lifeless form of the
unfortunate victim. The ball entered at the forehead and passes directly
through the brain, coming out at the back of the head. He was about thirty-
five years of fage, temperate, honest and respectable.
Financial embarrassment, coupled with unrequited love, is assigned as the
cause of the rash act. It is stated deceased was affected with aberration of
mind. On Saturday the day preceding the one on which he destroyed his life,
he went to the woods, only a short distance from the house, and there under a
tree where in summer he had often lounged, and doubtless stocked his mind with
silly love stories, dug his own grave and left a request to be buried there.
HIAL ROWLEY died at his residence at Findley's Lake Mina Twp, Chautauqua Co NY Sept 28th 1891 aged 93 years and 8 months;
He was born in Windsor Hartford Co CT Jan 27, 1798 and moved with his fathers family to Ripley NY in 1813, He was married Jan 3, 1823 and settled on his farm in Mina in March and living there for 52 years. His Companion and 4 children preceded him in death, for the past 17 years he has resided with his only remaining daughter Mrs J. A. HILL
He articled his farm in 1822
buried near his farm is his son JOHN ROWLEY
Jan 23, 1879, page 3:
Shocking Suicide.
At Findley's Lake, Chautauqua county, N.Y., last Sunday evening, a man by the name of John Rowley, son of Hial Rowley, suicided by shooting himself with a rifle. He was unmarried, and resided with his brother-in-law, John Hill, at that place. Early in the evening he went up stairs to his room and shortly after the report of a gun was heard in that direction. The family hastened to the room, where, lying upon the floor, with a bullet hole in his head, from which the blood was flowing freely, they beheld the lifeless form of the
unfortunate victim. The ball entered at the forehead and passes directly
through the brain, coming out at the back of the head. He was about thirty-
five years of fage, temperate, honest and respectable.
Financial embarrassment, coupled with unrequited love, is assigned as the
cause of the rash act. It is stated deceased was affected with aberration of
mind. On Saturday the day preceding the one on which he destroyed his life,
he went to the woods, only a short distance from the house, and there under a
tree where in summer he had often lounged, and doubtless stocked his mind with
silly love stories, dug his own grave and left a request to be buried there.
He was born in Windsor Hartford Co CT Jan 27, 1798 and moved with his fathers family to Ripley NY in 1813, He was married Jan 3, 1823 and settled on his farm in Mina in March and living there for 52 years. His Companion and 4 children preceded him in death, for the past 17 years he has resided with his only remaining daughter Mrs J. A. HILL
He articled his farm in 1822
buried near his farm is his son JOHN ROWLEY
Jan 23, 1879, page 3:
Shocking Suicide.
At Findley's Lake, Chautauqua county, N.Y., last Sunday evening, a man by the name of John Rowley, son of Hial Rowley, suicided by shooting himself with a rifle. He was unmarried, and resided with his brother-in-law, John Hill, at that place. Early in the evening he went up stairs to his room and shortly after the report of a gun was heard in that direction. The family hastened to the room, where, lying upon the floor, with a bullet hole in his head, from which the blood was flowing freely, they beheld the lifeless form of the
unfortunate victim. The ball entered at the forehead and passes directly
through the brain, coming out at the back of the head. He was about thirty-
five years of fage, temperate, honest and respectable.
Financial embarrassment, coupled with unrequited love, is assigned as the
cause of the rash act. It is stated deceased was affected with aberration of
mind. On Saturday the day preceding the one on which he destroyed his life,
he went to the woods, only a short distance from the house, and there under a
tree where in summer he had often lounged, and doubtless stocked his mind with
silly love stories, dug his own grave and left a request to be buried there.
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