Title: Somerville Resident Commits Suicide

The Fayette Falcon, printed at Somerville, says:

We learn that John MANLEY, an old man upwards of sixty years of age, who resided near Oakland in this county, committed suicide on the 17th by shooting himself through the next with a shot-gun. It seems that he had been very much depressed in spirits for some time caused by the death of his wife, and on the morning of the 17th, he gave directions to his daughter as to what disposition he desired should be made of his property, telling her that he intended killing himself on that day, and in a short time afterward took up his gun and went out to a crib a short distance from the house, and placing the muzzle of the gun close to his neck, fired, inflicting a wound from which he died in a few minutes. The deceased leaves a large family to mourn his unhappy fate.

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Transcribed by Jim Daniel. Published in The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 29 June 1867, Page 1. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.