Pioneer Genealogical Society - Ponca City, Oklahoma

 

 

 

Blackwell Times Record
Blackwell, Oklahoma
October 21, 1897

Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

Miss Mary Steel suicided at the home of Mr and Mrs George Simpson near Geuda Springs. He father commited suicide nearly two years ago, near Marshal, Okla. By jumping into a well. Cororner Huffman of Sumner County held an inquest over the young ladies remains and the inquest revealed the fact that the deceased was in love with George Simpson and was jealous of Simpsons wife. The girls father and mother are dead and she had been working for the Simpsons since their marriage, a little over two years ago. She was not receiving any wages, according to the testimony of Simpson because he was too poor to pay her, and because the girl did not care for wages.