DIED:
The body of the late Lowe Davis accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Nich. Davis, and his cousin, Nich. Davis, Esq., arrived from Rhea Springs, Tenn., last Friday night. The funeral attended by many mourning relatives and friends, took place in the Church of the Nativity at 10 a.m. Saturday, and his remains were deposited in the City Cemetery. The sorrowing sympathies of this whole community seem to have been elicited, by his sad death, in behalf of all who were most aggrieved, by reason of their intimate relationship to him by consanguinity or affinity, and in behalf of the Merriwether family.
KILLED BY HIS WIFE
Huntsville Gazette (Huntsville, AL)
16 September 1882 (Saturday)
Sad Ending of an Elopement
Lowe Davis, Esq, young, talented and ambitious walked our streets so recently in the pride of health and manhood that it is difficult to think of him as dead. The strange and remarkable circumstances of his killing invest it the more with solemnity and elicits for the bereaved general sympathy.
The Chattanooga Times of Thursday, the 14th, after recounting the circumstances of the double elopement from this city to Chattanooga a few months since, of which Lowe Davis Esq, and Miss Merriweather formed one of the couple, and giving purported causes of trouble between the young couple following their honeymoon, her serious sickness and removal with her mother to Rhea Springs, under the advice of the physician that her husband should keep aloof from her for some months, concludes with this account of the sad and unfortunate tragedy, Tuesday the 12th, at Rhea Springs, which has cast a gloom over this community and brought heaviness to so many hearts of relatives and friends of all the parties:
"She recuperated rapidly, and her intellect was soon restored, and her husband visited the springs but did not see her. He visited the springs a second time, and saw her but a few moments, she still refusing to return to him until he reformed. Last week he again visited the springs, but was denied seeing her. Several stormy interviews passed between the mother and him, and for several days he was seen hanging about his wife's room, but was denied admittance. Sunday he procured a pistol and demanded admittance, or threatened to kill the mother. He was finally quieted and gave the pistol to her. Monday he was heard to say this his wife should return to him, or a murder would follow. Tuesday night Mrs. Davis stepped from her room to go to a toilet room. He was near at hand, and followed. They met some distance from the hotel, and he, pointing to a pistol in his hand, demanded that she return to him. She had the pistol he gave her mother, in her pocket at the time and quietly slipped it from her pocket, placed it against his body, and fired, the ball passing through his bowels. She then walked deliberately to the hotel, informed the proprietor of what she had done as coolly as if she were relating some trivial incident, and left for her room. She exhibited not the least excitement Tuesday night, although many ladies were in hysterics from excitement. She related the circumstances as calmly as if telling an anecdote, and at midnight inquired after the patient, and slept soundly until morning. Yesterday Mr. Davis was found to be rapidly failing. He stated that his wife shot him in self-defense, and that he deserved it; that he had brought it on himself and no one but him was to blame. He begged that she would not be arrested adding that she acted in self defense only. At 9 p.m. Mr. Davis was thought to be dying.
A number of prominent citizens of Huntsville passed through the city on yesterday to Rhea Springs. The young wife is but a mere girl, of very handsome appearance.
Later
Mr. Davis died Thursday morning at 2 o'clock. Nich Davis Esq, Supt. Betts and the bereaved mother returned from Rhea Springs with the corpse Friday night. The funeral attended from the Episcopal church this morning.
The body of the late Lowe Davis accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Nich. Davis, and his cousin, Nich. Davis, Esq., arrived from Rhea Springs, Tenn., last Friday night. The funeral attended by many mourning relatives and friends, took place in the Church of the Nativity at 10 a.m. Saturday, and his remains were deposited in the City Cemetery. The sorrowing sympathies of this whole community seem to have been elicited, by his sad death, in behalf of all who were most aggrieved, by reason of their intimate relationship to him by consanguinity or affinity, and in behalf of the Merriwether family.
KILLED BY HIS WIFE
Huntsville Gazette (Huntsville, AL)
16 September 1882 (Saturday)
Sad Ending of an Elopement
Lowe Davis, Esq, young, talented and ambitious walked our streets so recently in the pride of health and manhood that it is difficult to think of him as dead. The strange and remarkable circumstances of his killing invest it the more with solemnity and elicits for the bereaved general sympathy.
The Chattanooga Times of Thursday, the 14th, after recounting the circumstances of the double elopement from this city to Chattanooga a few months since, of which Lowe Davis Esq, and Miss Merriweather formed one of the couple, and giving purported causes of trouble between the young couple following their honeymoon, her serious sickness and removal with her mother to Rhea Springs, under the advice of the physician that her husband should keep aloof from her for some months, concludes with this account of the sad and unfortunate tragedy, Tuesday the 12th, at Rhea Springs, which has cast a gloom over this community and brought heaviness to so many hearts of relatives and friends of all the parties:
"She recuperated rapidly, and her intellect was soon restored, and her husband visited the springs but did not see her. He visited the springs a second time, and saw her but a few moments, she still refusing to return to him until he reformed. Last week he again visited the springs, but was denied seeing her. Several stormy interviews passed between the mother and him, and for several days he was seen hanging about his wife's room, but was denied admittance. Sunday he procured a pistol and demanded admittance, or threatened to kill the mother. He was finally quieted and gave the pistol to her. Monday he was heard to say this his wife should return to him, or a murder would follow. Tuesday night Mrs. Davis stepped from her room to go to a toilet room. He was near at hand, and followed. They met some distance from the hotel, and he, pointing to a pistol in his hand, demanded that she return to him. She had the pistol he gave her mother, in her pocket at the time and quietly slipped it from her pocket, placed it against his body, and fired, the ball passing through his bowels. She then walked deliberately to the hotel, informed the proprietor of what she had done as coolly as if she were relating some trivial incident, and left for her room. She exhibited not the least excitement Tuesday night, although many ladies were in hysterics from excitement. She related the circumstances as calmly as if telling an anecdote, and at midnight inquired after the patient, and slept soundly until morning. Yesterday Mr. Davis was found to be rapidly failing. He stated that his wife shot him in self-defense, and that he deserved it; that he had brought it on himself and no one but him was to blame. He begged that she would not be arrested adding that she acted in self defense only. At 9 p.m. Mr. Davis was thought to be dying.
A number of prominent citizens of Huntsville passed through the city on yesterday to Rhea Springs. The young wife is but a mere girl, of very handsome appearance.
Later
Mr. Davis died Thursday morning at 2 o'clock. Nich Davis Esq, Supt. Betts and the bereaved mother returned from Rhea Springs with the corpse Friday night. The funeral attended from the Episcopal church this morning.
DIED:
The body of the late Lowe Davis accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Nich. Davis, and his cousin, Nich. Davis, Esq., arrived from Rhea Springs, Tenn., last Friday night. The funeral attended by many mourning relatives and friends, took place in the Church of the Nativity at 10 a.m. Saturday, and his remains were deposited in the City Cemetery. The sorrowing sympathies of this whole community seem to have been elicited, by his sad death, in behalf of all who were most aggrieved, by reason of their intimate relationship to him by consanguinity or affinity, and in behalf of the Merriwether family.
KILLED BY HIS WIFE
Huntsville Gazette (Huntsville, AL)
16 September 1882 (Saturday)
Sad Ending of an Elopement
Lowe Davis, Esq, young, talented and ambitious walked our streets so recently in the pride of health and manhood that it is difficult to think of him as dead. The strange and remarkable circumstances of his killing invest it the more with solemnity and elicits for the bereaved general sympathy.
The Chattanooga Times of Thursday, the 14th, after recounting the circumstances of the double elopement from this city to Chattanooga a few months since, of which Lowe Davis Esq, and Miss Merriweather formed one of the couple, and giving purported causes of trouble between the young couple following their honeymoon, her serious sickness and removal with her mother to Rhea Springs, under the advice of the physician that her husband should keep aloof from her for some months, concludes with this account of the sad and unfortunate tragedy, Tuesday the 12th, at Rhea Springs, which has cast a gloom over this community and brought heaviness to so many hearts of relatives and friends of all the parties:
"She recuperated rapidly, and her intellect was soon restored, and her husband visited the springs but did not see her. He visited the springs a second time, and saw her but a few moments, she still refusing to return to him until he reformed. Last week he again visited the springs, but was denied seeing her. Several stormy interviews passed between the mother and him, and for several days he was seen hanging about his wife's room, but was denied admittance. Sunday he procured a pistol and demanded admittance, or threatened to kill the mother. He was finally quieted and gave the pistol to her. Monday he was heard to say this his wife should return to him, or a murder would follow. Tuesday night Mrs. Davis stepped from her room to go to a toilet room. He was near at hand, and followed. They met some distance from the hotel, and he, pointing to a pistol in his hand, demanded that she return to him. She had the pistol he gave her mother, in her pocket at the time and quietly slipped it from her pocket, placed it against his body, and fired, the ball passing through his bowels. She then walked deliberately to the hotel, informed the proprietor of what she had done as coolly as if she were relating some trivial incident, and left for her room. She exhibited not the least excitement Tuesday night, although many ladies were in hysterics from excitement. She related the circumstances as calmly as if telling an anecdote, and at midnight inquired after the patient, and slept soundly until morning. Yesterday Mr. Davis was found to be rapidly failing. He stated that his wife shot him in self-defense, and that he deserved it; that he had brought it on himself and no one but him was to blame. He begged that she would not be arrested adding that she acted in self defense only. At 9 p.m. Mr. Davis was thought to be dying.
A number of prominent citizens of Huntsville passed through the city on yesterday to Rhea Springs. The young wife is but a mere girl, of very handsome appearance.
Later
Mr. Davis died Thursday morning at 2 o'clock. Nich Davis Esq, Supt. Betts and the bereaved mother returned from Rhea Springs with the corpse Friday night. The funeral attended from the Episcopal church this morning.
The body of the late Lowe Davis accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Nich. Davis, and his cousin, Nich. Davis, Esq., arrived from Rhea Springs, Tenn., last Friday night. The funeral attended by many mourning relatives and friends, took place in the Church of the Nativity at 10 a.m. Saturday, and his remains were deposited in the City Cemetery. The sorrowing sympathies of this whole community seem to have been elicited, by his sad death, in behalf of all who were most aggrieved, by reason of their intimate relationship to him by consanguinity or affinity, and in behalf of the Merriwether family.
KILLED BY HIS WIFE
Huntsville Gazette (Huntsville, AL)
16 September 1882 (Saturday)
Sad Ending of an Elopement
Lowe Davis, Esq, young, talented and ambitious walked our streets so recently in the pride of health and manhood that it is difficult to think of him as dead. The strange and remarkable circumstances of his killing invest it the more with solemnity and elicits for the bereaved general sympathy.
The Chattanooga Times of Thursday, the 14th, after recounting the circumstances of the double elopement from this city to Chattanooga a few months since, of which Lowe Davis Esq, and Miss Merriweather formed one of the couple, and giving purported causes of trouble between the young couple following their honeymoon, her serious sickness and removal with her mother to Rhea Springs, under the advice of the physician that her husband should keep aloof from her for some months, concludes with this account of the sad and unfortunate tragedy, Tuesday the 12th, at Rhea Springs, which has cast a gloom over this community and brought heaviness to so many hearts of relatives and friends of all the parties:
"She recuperated rapidly, and her intellect was soon restored, and her husband visited the springs but did not see her. He visited the springs a second time, and saw her but a few moments, she still refusing to return to him until he reformed. Last week he again visited the springs, but was denied seeing her. Several stormy interviews passed between the mother and him, and for several days he was seen hanging about his wife's room, but was denied admittance. Sunday he procured a pistol and demanded admittance, or threatened to kill the mother. He was finally quieted and gave the pistol to her. Monday he was heard to say this his wife should return to him, or a murder would follow. Tuesday night Mrs. Davis stepped from her room to go to a toilet room. He was near at hand, and followed. They met some distance from the hotel, and he, pointing to a pistol in his hand, demanded that she return to him. She had the pistol he gave her mother, in her pocket at the time and quietly slipped it from her pocket, placed it against his body, and fired, the ball passing through his bowels. She then walked deliberately to the hotel, informed the proprietor of what she had done as coolly as if she were relating some trivial incident, and left for her room. She exhibited not the least excitement Tuesday night, although many ladies were in hysterics from excitement. She related the circumstances as calmly as if telling an anecdote, and at midnight inquired after the patient, and slept soundly until morning. Yesterday Mr. Davis was found to be rapidly failing. He stated that his wife shot him in self-defense, and that he deserved it; that he had brought it on himself and no one but him was to blame. He begged that she would not be arrested adding that she acted in self defense only. At 9 p.m. Mr. Davis was thought to be dying.
A number of prominent citizens of Huntsville passed through the city on yesterday to Rhea Springs. The young wife is but a mere girl, of very handsome appearance.
Later
Mr. Davis died Thursday morning at 2 o'clock. Nich Davis Esq, Supt. Betts and the bereaved mother returned from Rhea Springs with the corpse Friday night. The funeral attended from the Episcopal church this morning.
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