Obituary / Eagle Lake Headlight, Saturday, May 29, 1926
GEORGE MONTGOMERY FIRES BULLET INTO HEAD, ENDING LIFE.
An Old and Well Known Citizen, In State of Depondency, Ends Life Saturday Morning.
Standing before the mirror of a dresser in a room at his home on the Davis farm, three miles south of Matthews, George Montgomery, about 65 years of age, fired a bullet into his head about 7 o'clock last Saturday morning ending his life on earth.
The bullet from a .32 caliber colt's automatic struck him in the right ear, striking the skull on the opposite side of his head which turned its course, causing it to come out just over the left eye. Death, evidently, was instantaneous.
A pistol was found lying on the dresser, where it had fallen after the fatal shot was fired. A note addressed "To my friends," was pinned to the bosom of the dead man's shirt on which was written with pencil: Am done; out and down; no crop prospects; all debts, no way to pay; am tired of it all; good-bye."
Mr. Montgomery was well known to the people of this section and has been engaged in farming in the bottom section for many years, and his death is deeply regretted by all who knew him.
Depressed on account of failing health, worrying over crop conditions and inability to get farm labor, Mr. Montgomery was despondent, and after his last farm hands had left the place on Friday, he chose death as a means of ending it all.
Mr. Montgomery was a likable man, and many old friends who always enjoyed pleasant conversation with him on his weekly visits to Eagle Lake. Friends, with whom he always mingled during his visits here, say that he appeared despondent while here on the Saturday before his death. Last year he spent several months in a hospital in Houston from an infected foot. He practically recovered but on his visit in town last Saturday told some of his friends that the same trouble was coming back on him and appeared very despondent over his physical condition.
He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. F. P Herbert and Mrs. W. E. Davis, both of this city, who have the sincere sympathy of the people of the entire community.
Funeral services were held from the Herbert home at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, interment being made in the family burial grounds [Montgomery-Thatcher Cemetery] on the Montgomery plantation, Rev. R. M. Johnson, local Episcopal rector, officiated at the home and at the grave.
Submitted by Dorothy Cox
GEORGE MONTGOMERY FIRES BULLET INTO HEAD, ENDING LIFE.
An Old and Well Known Citizen, In State of Depondency, Ends Life Saturday Morning.
Standing before the mirror of a dresser in a room at his home on the Davis farm, three miles south of Matthews, George Montgomery, about 65 years of age, fired a bullet into his head about 7 o'clock last Saturday morning ending his life on earth.
The bullet from a .32 caliber colt's automatic struck him in the right ear, striking the skull on the opposite side of his head which turned its course, causing it to come out just over the left eye. Death, evidently, was instantaneous.
A pistol was found lying on the dresser, where it had fallen after the fatal shot was fired. A note addressed "To my friends," was pinned to the bosom of the dead man's shirt on which was written with pencil: Am done; out and down; no crop prospects; all debts, no way to pay; am tired of it all; good-bye."
Mr. Montgomery was well known to the people of this section and has been engaged in farming in the bottom section for many years, and his death is deeply regretted by all who knew him.
Depressed on account of failing health, worrying over crop conditions and inability to get farm labor, Mr. Montgomery was despondent, and after his last farm hands had left the place on Friday, he chose death as a means of ending it all.
Mr. Montgomery was a likable man, and many old friends who always enjoyed pleasant conversation with him on his weekly visits to Eagle Lake. Friends, with whom he always mingled during his visits here, say that he appeared despondent while here on the Saturday before his death. Last year he spent several months in a hospital in Houston from an infected foot. He practically recovered but on his visit in town last Saturday told some of his friends that the same trouble was coming back on him and appeared very despondent over his physical condition.
He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. F. P Herbert and Mrs. W. E. Davis, both of this city, who have the sincere sympathy of the people of the entire community.
Funeral services were held from the Herbert home at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, interment being made in the family burial grounds [Montgomery-Thatcher Cemetery] on the Montgomery plantation, Rev. R. M. Johnson, local Episcopal rector, officiated at the home and at the grave.
Submitted by Dorothy Cox
Obituary / Eagle Lake Headlight, Saturday, May 29, 1926
GEORGE MONTGOMERY FIRES BULLET INTO HEAD, ENDING LIFE.
An Old and Well Known Citizen, In State of Depondency, Ends Life Saturday Morning.
Standing before the mirror of a dresser in a room at his home on the Davis farm, three miles south of Matthews, George Montgomery, about 65 years of age, fired a bullet into his head about 7 o'clock last Saturday morning ending his life on earth.
The bullet from a .32 caliber colt's automatic struck him in the right ear, striking the skull on the opposite side of his head which turned its course, causing it to come out just over the left eye. Death, evidently, was instantaneous.
A pistol was found lying on the dresser, where it had fallen after the fatal shot was fired. A note addressed "To my friends," was pinned to the bosom of the dead man's shirt on which was written with pencil: Am done; out and down; no crop prospects; all debts, no way to pay; am tired of it all; good-bye."
Mr. Montgomery was well known to the people of this section and has been engaged in farming in the bottom section for many years, and his death is deeply regretted by all who knew him.
Depressed on account of failing health, worrying over crop conditions and inability to get farm labor, Mr. Montgomery was despondent, and after his last farm hands had left the place on Friday, he chose death as a means of ending it all.
Mr. Montgomery was a likable man, and many old friends who always enjoyed pleasant conversation with him on his weekly visits to Eagle Lake. Friends, with whom he always mingled during his visits here, say that he appeared despondent while here on the Saturday before his death. Last year he spent several months in a hospital in Houston from an infected foot. He practically recovered but on his visit in town last Saturday told some of his friends that the same trouble was coming back on him and appeared very despondent over his physical condition.
He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. F. P Herbert and Mrs. W. E. Davis, both of this city, who have the sincere sympathy of the people of the entire community.
Funeral services were held from the Herbert home at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, interment being made in the family burial grounds [Montgomery-Thatcher Cemetery] on the Montgomery plantation, Rev. R. M. Johnson, local Episcopal rector, officiated at the home and at the grave.
Submitted by Dorothy Cox
GEORGE MONTGOMERY FIRES BULLET INTO HEAD, ENDING LIFE.
An Old and Well Known Citizen, In State of Depondency, Ends Life Saturday Morning.
Standing before the mirror of a dresser in a room at his home on the Davis farm, three miles south of Matthews, George Montgomery, about 65 years of age, fired a bullet into his head about 7 o'clock last Saturday morning ending his life on earth.
The bullet from a .32 caliber colt's automatic struck him in the right ear, striking the skull on the opposite side of his head which turned its course, causing it to come out just over the left eye. Death, evidently, was instantaneous.
A pistol was found lying on the dresser, where it had fallen after the fatal shot was fired. A note addressed "To my friends," was pinned to the bosom of the dead man's shirt on which was written with pencil: Am done; out and down; no crop prospects; all debts, no way to pay; am tired of it all; good-bye."
Mr. Montgomery was well known to the people of this section and has been engaged in farming in the bottom section for many years, and his death is deeply regretted by all who knew him.
Depressed on account of failing health, worrying over crop conditions and inability to get farm labor, Mr. Montgomery was despondent, and after his last farm hands had left the place on Friday, he chose death as a means of ending it all.
Mr. Montgomery was a likable man, and many old friends who always enjoyed pleasant conversation with him on his weekly visits to Eagle Lake. Friends, with whom he always mingled during his visits here, say that he appeared despondent while here on the Saturday before his death. Last year he spent several months in a hospital in Houston from an infected foot. He practically recovered but on his visit in town last Saturday told some of his friends that the same trouble was coming back on him and appeared very despondent over his physical condition.
He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. F. P Herbert and Mrs. W. E. Davis, both of this city, who have the sincere sympathy of the people of the entire community.
Funeral services were held from the Herbert home at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, interment being made in the family burial grounds [Montgomery-Thatcher Cemetery] on the Montgomery plantation, Rev. R. M. Johnson, local Episcopal rector, officiated at the home and at the grave.
Submitted by Dorothy Cox
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