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Edna West Baker Duncan

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Birth	:	9 Jan 1883 Shelby County, Missouri, USA
Death	:	26 Jul 1925 Shelbyville, Shelby County, Missouri, USA
Burial	:	Shelby Memorial Cemetery, Shelbyville, Shelby County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.8046330, -92.0448310
Description	:	MO d/c 22812 SHELBYVILLE WOMAN TAKES HER OWN LIFE Pours Carbolic Acid Down Her Throat Sunday. SHELBYVILLE, Mo., July 27.— Mrs. Lon Duncan, wife of a prominent well-to-do farmer living west of Shelbyville, committed suicide at the home of her sister, Mrs. Reason Baker. Sunday afternoon when she climbed into the loft of her sister's barn and poured carbolic acid down her throat through a tube. Mrs. Duncan took a fan, quilt and pillow in the loft with her to be comfortable, when she died. Ill health is the cause attributed for her suicide, as she has a husband... Read More	MO d/c 22812 SHELBYVILLE WOMAN TAKES HER OWN LIFE Pours Carbolic Acid Down Her Throat Sunday. SHELBYVILLE, Mo., July 27.— Mrs. Lon Duncan, wife of a prominent well-to-do farmer living west of Shelbyville, committed suicide at the home of her sister, Mrs. Reason Baker. Sunday afternoon when she climbed into the loft of her sister's barn and poured carbolic acid down her throat through a tube. Mrs. Duncan took a fan, quilt and pillow in the loft with her to be comfortable, when she died. Ill health is the cause attributed for her suicide, as she has a husband and small boy of two years of age, Dan, surviving. The Quincy Daily Journal, Monday, July 27, 1925; Page: 5 COMMITTED SUICIDE Mrs. Lon Duncan was found dead at the home of her mother Mrs. Reason Baker of Shelbyville, about seven o'clock Sunday evening. Mrs. Duncan had been in poor health for some time, and apparently had been trying to get her mother away from home all day. Finally Mrs. Baker went for a ride with Mr. Duncan, and when they returned about 4:30, Mrs. Duncan was not at home, so they began to search for her. She was found about 7:00 by her husband in the hay loft of the barn at her mother's home. She was lying on a comfort and pillow with a fan on one side and a bottle of carbolic acid on the other. She had drank the pure carbolic acid through a tube and was drawing the last breath when Mr. Duncan found her. She leaves besides her husband, one child about two years old, her mother, Mrs. Reason Baker, one brother Harley all of this neighborhood and two sisters, Miss Jessie of Chicago and Mrs. Charles HAnger of Milan, Mo. Mr. Duncan was a prominent farmer of this county and has recently built one of the finest farm homes in northeast Missouri. The funeral will be conducted at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon at her mother's home in Shelbyville, conducted by Rev. J. H. Wood of Canton. Independent-Courier, Clarence, Missouri, 28 Jul 1925, Page 1, Column 6 WOMAN ENDS LIFE BY TAKING POISON Mrs. Edna Duncan, 42 years old, wife of Lon L. Duncan of the Duncan Chapel neighborhood southwest of Shelbyville, ended her life about 6:30 o'clock Sunday evening by drinking carbolic acid at the home of her mother, Mrs. Reason Baker, in this city. The body was found in a barn at the Baker home by her husband. Mrs. Duncan had been in poor health for several years and was recently a patient in a provate sanitarium following a nervous breakdown. For the past few months she had been staying the greater part of the time with her mother here, making occasional visits to the farm to see her husband and small son, Dan. Sunday afternoon while her mother was asleep Mrs. Duncan went ot the barn and, after spreading newspapers on the floor of the grain bin in the lofe and placing a pillow for her head, poured the acid into her throat through a glass tibe and laid down to her death. The bottle partly filled with acid rested against the side of the barn and a fan had dropped from her hand. Her body was in a restful position and apparently death had occurred without great suffering. Edna Baker was born January 9, 1883, and was in her 43rd year. On November 15, 1904, she was married to Mr. Duncan and to this union two children were born, Doris, who died at the age of 4 years, and Dan, who was two years old yesterday. She leaves besides her husband and mother, one brother, HArly Baker, of this city, and two sisters, Misses (sic) Jessie Baker, of Chicago, and Mrs. Charles Hanger, of Milan, Mo. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the Baker home, conducted by Rev. J. H. Wood, of Canton, Mo., assisted by Rev. S. E. Hoover, of this city. Interment was made in the I.O.O.F.cemetery. Deceased was a member of the Christian chutrch of Shelbyville. The family have the sympathy of the entire community in their bereavement. Shelby County Herald, Shelbyville, Missouri, 29 Jul 1925, Page 1, Col. 6 Information on file with Shelby County Historical Society & Museum

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Family Members:

Parent

Reason Baker

(1852 - 1923)

Margaret “Maggie” Hanley Baker

(1858 - 1939)

Spouse

Levin Lanius “Lon” Duncan

(1870 - 1948)

Children

Doris Baker Duncan

(1909 - 1914)

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