Evelyn was my fathers second cousin. The details of her death are very sad. But I feel her story needs to be told.

Printed in Daily Herald, Biloxi, MS on 6/15/1932:

"WOMAN HANGS SELF WITH ROPE"

"Despondency over ill health is believed to have led Miss Evelyn Seymour, 44, North Biloxi or Seymour resident, to commit suicide this morning by tying a half-inch rope from her throat to a beam in a small closet and then stepping from a chair. The discovery of the body was made after four-year-oold Linda Seymour, who resides across the street, had gone to the house and being unable to find Miss Seymour she called her mother, Mrs. Blanche Seymour, who with her daughter, Louise, went to the home. Both doors of her room were found tied with bed clothing, which had been torn in strips, which were cutyby Mrs. Seymour. An investigation of the room led her to look in the closet where the body was seen hanging. Mrs. Seymour's screams brought Merritt Brunies, who was in a nearby barbershop, to the scene and he notified Bo Michel, after which county officials were called. Dr. A. Ferrer, county coroner, immediately went to the house and conducted an inquest, which led to the return of a verdict of 'strangulation - self inflicted.' Miss Seymour resided in the home with her brother, Albert, who owned the place and has a farm several miles north of Biloxi. He had left the home about daylight and said he thought his sister was still sleeping. She was seen on the porch between five and six a.m. by a passing truck driver, it was reported. The body was discovered about 9 a.m...Relatives said Miss Seymour had been in ill health all her life and that during the past two years she had become worse. She is survived by five sisters, Mrs. Lena Moran, Mrs. Bell Price, El Paso, Tex., Mrs. Katherine Santa Cruz, Mrs. Blanche Seymour, Mrs. Clara Entrekin, and two brothers, Albert and Oscar. She was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic church. The
Seymour home is located on the cross roads at North Biloxi facing the Cedar Lake highway. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon fromthe residence with services by Father O'Sullivan of the Sacred Heart church. The body was moved to the O'Keefe parlor after the inquest."


Printed in Daily Herald, Biloxi, MS on 6/17/1932:

"MISS SEYMOUR BURIED"

"The funeral of Miss Evelyn Seymour, North Biloxi, was held from the home and at the Sacred Heart church yesterday morning. A Requiem Mass was said and a very impressive sermon was preached by Rev. Dennis O'Sullivan, pastor of the church. Interment was in the family tomb in the Biloxi cemetery. A large crowd of friends and relatives followed her remains to the grave. The pallbearers were: Lyman Seymour, Vincent Marchman, Jules, Orrin and Albert Santa Cruz and Orey Krohn."