Benjamin Franklin EWER

                   Saturday, June 14, 1919, Rochester Sentinel
Friday, June 13th, was a black dayfor Fulton county, two suicides, a man
and a woman, between whom there was not the remotest connection, having
been committed on that unlucky day.
Mrs.Doris EWER, 38, swallowed an ounce bottle of carbolic acid at her
home in Fulton at six o'clock Friday evening, and altho everything
possible was done toalleviate the horrible burns she suffered, death
overtook her two hours later.
Mrs. Ewer, who had been ill for the past two years, and who was said to
have been suffering with a nervous affliction, had indicated that life
was no longer sweet to her and intimated that she would commit suicide.
Friday afternoon she sent her little daughter, Earsel [EWER], to the drug
store for an ounce of carbolic acid, which she explained was to be used
to poison insects.
Later in the day she prepared the evening meal as usual, and when her
husband and daughter sat down to eat, she arose from the table declaring
that she didnot feel like eating.
She then went into her bedroom where she swallowed the acid. Fearing such
action, altho he did not know of the acid, her husband followed her into
the room, but not before she had taken the poison.
Medical aidwas summoned immediately, but she died at eight o'clock, two
hours after.
That her act was premeditated was shown not only by the fact that she had
previously intimated it, but also by the fact that she left three notes,
one to her husband, another to her daughter and a third to her father,
Henry RICHARDSON, of near Twelve Mile.
The contents of these notes were kept secret, but itwas intimated that
they contained not only her words of parting to her family, but also the
reason for her act, which was said to have followed family trouble.
Besides the husband, daughter and father, a step-mother and brother,
Elbert [RICHARDSON], survive. Funeral at the home Sunday at two o'clock,
Rev.Harley STYTH in charge. Burial at Skinner cemetery, east of Twelve
Mile.
Thehusband, Ben F. EWER, is in the coal and cement business and able to
furnishall of the wants of his family, but is was said to be a lack of
fidelity that caused her action.