

  <p>Shepard, Amanda</p>
  <p>Passed: </p>
  <p>Age: 49</p>


  <p>Source: Mountaineer</p>

  <p>Death Notice: </p>

  <p>Obituary Date: 1914-05-29</p>
  <p>Information: Miss Amanda Shepard, a woman of some noterity, committed suicide shortly before 10 o&#39;clock yesterday morning at the home of Mrs. Mary Vosburg on the head of Mud Run, by taking strycnine.  She lived only a few minutes.  The woman made her home with Mrs. Vosburg during the past winter, but had been absent for several days, returning Wednesday.  Yesterday morning she collected her belongings together and carried them out of the home, destroying most of them.  She then lay down on a bed and drank the deadly poision, dying within a few minutes without regaining consciousness.  Mrs. Vosburg was attracted by her screams but was unable to relieve the poor woman&#39;s suffering. She was about 49 years of age.  How or where she obtained the drug is unknown.  The dead woman left the following note which explains her rash act:  ""This is to tell the public at large that having no home and no place to go, that I will take strychnine and end it all"". Signed, Amanda Shepard.  (McIntyre)</p>


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