Boso, Howard

Passed: 1950-11-22

Age: 39

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1950-12-01

Information: HOWARD BOSO TAKES LIFE IN OLD ABANDONED HOME WHERE HE WAS BORN - A 39-year-old farm hand who had become despondent because of ill health returned to the old abandoned house in which he was born in Grant district and took his life sometime last week and the body was found late Thursday evening.  He was Howard Boso, 39 years old, and the old home in which he took his life is located in the Little Pond Creek section of the county.  He had been missing for two days and with no trace of him anywhere in the neighborhood, a search was started last Thursday and late in the evening the body was found in the old abandoned house.Trooper C. T. Clay and ?  went to the house accompanied by Justice of the Peace R. J. Riley.  Alfter an examination and the questioning of a number of people, it was decided that an inquest was not necessary and that Boso had taken his own life.  They said that the man had gone to the second floor of the old home and had tied a rope to the rafters and then looped it around his neck.  He stood then at the top of the opening for the stairway and fired a bullet from a small caliber pistol into his forehead.  He had fallen forward, they said, and down through the staircase opening.  The pistol was found at the foot of the stairs.  The officers said they learned that Boso had been suffering from an incurable heart ailment and that recently he had become despondent about his condition. He had been employed by a farmer in the neighborhood, but had been missing two days from that home.  When they began checking up to find where he might be, after he had been gone a couple of days, they learned that no one in the community had seen him and then feared that something was wrong and a number of men started searching for him over the community, but did not find the body until around seven o'clock on Thursday evening.  Officers were immediately notified but it was about ten o'clock before they arrived on the scene.  Funeral services for Mr. Boso were held in Ravenswood Saturday afternoon and the burial was in the Ravenswood cemetery.  He is survived by his father, Harry L. Boso of Sandyville; sisters, Mrs. Pearl Davis and Mrs. W. W. Rawson, both of.........Mrs. J. W. Baker of ............