Age 49
The Ypsilantian
Thursday, March 10, 1892
An Ypsilanti Woman Kills Her Husband
Charles N. Ayres was shot by his wife, and died in hospital the next day. They lived on Bagley Avenue, or rather she did, their quarrels having culminated in a separation and a suit for divorce. They had been married twenty-five years, and their life had been for several years very inharmonious. At the time of this marriage she was living at Denton, where she had married a brother of Samuel Denton, and her husband had died. Before that, she had been occupied as a dressmaker in Ypsilanti, and was known as Ann Watson, from Canton, where her girlhood had been passed, and where she was regarded as an attractive and promising young woman. Her faults seem to have been avarice and an ungoverned temper, by reason of which she is now in jail charged with murder. She professed great contrition after her crime, and her dying husband freely granted her prayer for forgiveness. The scene at his death bed, to which she was taken from the jail at the request of both, was pitiful enough. She reproached herself in the bitterest terms, and her manifestations of grief were uncontrollable when she was led away from the death chamber and locked up.
Source: letter dated 3/3/2000 from Audrey Virginia Brannas to Diane Watson
The Ypsilantian
Thursday, March 10, 1892
An Ypsilanti Woman Kills Her Husband
Charles N. Ayres was shot by his wife, and died in hospital the next day. They lived on Bagley Avenue, or rather she did, their quarrels having culminated in a separation and a suit for divorce. They had been married twenty-five years, and their life had been for several years very inharmonious. At the time of this marriage she was living at Denton, where she had married a brother of Samuel Denton, and her husband had died. Before that, she had been occupied as a dressmaker in Ypsilanti, and was known as Ann Watson, from Canton, where her girlhood had been passed, and where she was regarded as an attractive and promising young woman. Her faults seem to have been avarice and an ungoverned temper, by reason of which she is now in jail charged with murder. She professed great contrition after her crime, and her dying husband freely granted her prayer for forgiveness. The scene at his death bed, to which she was taken from the jail at the request of both, was pitiful enough. She reproached herself in the bitterest terms, and her manifestations of grief were uncontrollable when she was led away from the death chamber and locked up.
Source: letter dated 3/3/2000 from Audrey Virginia Brannas to Diane Watson
Age 49
The Ypsilantian
Thursday, March 10, 1892
An Ypsilanti Woman Kills Her Husband
Charles N. Ayres was shot by his wife, and died in hospital the next day. They lived on Bagley Avenue, or rather she did, their quarrels having culminated in a separation and a suit for divorce. They had been married twenty-five years, and their life had been for several years very inharmonious. At the time of this marriage she was living at Denton, where she had married a brother of Samuel Denton, and her husband had died. Before that, she had been occupied as a dressmaker in Ypsilanti, and was known as Ann Watson, from Canton, where her girlhood had been passed, and where she was regarded as an attractive and promising young woman. Her faults seem to have been avarice and an ungoverned temper, by reason of which she is now in jail charged with murder. She professed great contrition after her crime, and her dying husband freely granted her prayer for forgiveness. The scene at his death bed, to which she was taken from the jail at the request of both, was pitiful enough. She reproached herself in the bitterest terms, and her manifestations of grief were uncontrollable when she was led away from the death chamber and locked up.
Source: letter dated 3/3/2000 from Audrey Virginia Brannas to Diane Watson
The Ypsilantian
Thursday, March 10, 1892
An Ypsilanti Woman Kills Her Husband
Charles N. Ayres was shot by his wife, and died in hospital the next day. They lived on Bagley Avenue, or rather she did, their quarrels having culminated in a separation and a suit for divorce. They had been married twenty-five years, and their life had been for several years very inharmonious. At the time of this marriage she was living at Denton, where she had married a brother of Samuel Denton, and her husband had died. Before that, she had been occupied as a dressmaker in Ypsilanti, and was known as Ann Watson, from Canton, where her girlhood had been passed, and where she was regarded as an attractive and promising young woman. Her faults seem to have been avarice and an ungoverned temper, by reason of which she is now in jail charged with murder. She professed great contrition after her crime, and her dying husband freely granted her prayer for forgiveness. The scene at his death bed, to which she was taken from the jail at the request of both, was pitiful enough. She reproached herself in the bitterest terms, and her manifestations of grief were uncontrollable when she was led away from the death chamber and locked up.
Source: letter dated 3/3/2000 from Audrey Virginia Brannas to Diane Watson
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