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The Register and Reader, Des Moines, IA
Saturday, 28 December, 1907

         Maquoketa Civil War Veteran Ends
           Life by Hanging
           
         Maquoketa, Ia., Dec. 27 - Special:
         MRS. CALVIN WILCOX of South Second street was horrified
       to find the lifeless body of her husband hanging to a
       rafter of the woodshed near the house at 9 o'clock yester-
       day morning. He had tied a piece of cotton rope around his
       neck, fastened it to the rafter and had evidently jumped
       from a step nearby, as the body was dragging on the floor.
       Sheriff Henry Kruse and Esquire James Ralston were called
       and as they did not think it necessary to hold an inquest,
       they cut the body down.
       
         MR. WILCOX was well known in the city as a woodsawer
       and a civil war veteran. Always good natured and enjoying
       excellent health, no reason is known for his desire to
       take his own life. He was last seen by John Carter, a neigh-
       bor, at 7 o'clock and was going toward the woodshed. He had
       been in good spirits the evening before and had had a friendly
       chat with that same neighbor. he was about 75 years of age
       and leaves a wife and three grown up daughters.
       
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