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Thomas Irven Lydard

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Birth	:	27 Jul 1901 Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
Death	:	26 Jan 1955 Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
Burial	:	Monocacy Cemetery, Beallsville, Montgomery County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.1800003, -77.4163971
Plot	:	Row I, Lot 47, Site 11
Description	:	Parents: - James W. Lydard [1865-1916] - Virginia (Phillips) Lydard [1862-1946] Married Annie Virginia Nicholson Lydard Children: - Ruby Ellen Lydard Leith [1927-1993] - Thomas Irven "Tuck" Lydard, Jr. [1928-?] - Raymond E. Lydard [1930-?] - Annie Lydard [1931-?] - Bessie R. Lydard [1932-?] - Frank Eugene Lydard [1935-?] - Janet I. Lydard Fitts [1939-?] Death Notice The News (Frederick, MD) January 27, 1955 Assertedly despondent over separation from his wife, Thomas I. Lydard, 54, Sellman, fatally shot himself Wednesday afternoon after bombarding the home of Mrs. Beatrice V. Jonnson, 79, also of Sellman... Read More	Parents: - James W. Lydard [1865-1916] - Virginia (Phillips) Lydard [1862-1946] Married Annie Virginia Nicholson Lydard Children: - Ruby Ellen Lydard Leith [1927-1993] - Thomas Irven "Tuck" Lydard, Jr. [1928-?] - Raymond E. Lydard [1930-?] - Annie Lydard [1931-?] - Bessie R. Lydard [1932-?] - Frank Eugene Lydard [1935-?] - Janet I. Lydard Fitts [1939-?] Death Notice The News (Frederick, MD) January 27, 1955 Assertedly despondent over separation from his wife, Thomas I. Lydard, 54, Sellman, fatally shot himself Wednesday afternoon after bombarding the home of Mrs. Beatrice V. Jonnson, 79, also of Sellman and wounding the elderly home-owner with whom his wife is residing, from a gunshot wound which entered below his right ear and exited above the right eye. Lydard was rushed from the scene of the shooting to Frederick Memorial Hospital. He was pronounced dead by Dr. Robert J. Furie, medical examiner here, 12 minutes after arrival at the hospital emergency room. Mrs. Johnson was brought to the hospital in the Hyattstown VFD ambulance about 15 minutes after Lydard and was admitted for x-rays and treatment of a bullet puncture-wound of the right chest. Officers Fred Pearson and Joseph Stiles of Montgomery County Police investigated and said the assault with a deadly weapon on Mrs. Johnson almost immediately followed by Lydard's suicide, took place at [?] p. m. The weapon used was a .22 automatic rifle, the officers said. When police investigators arrived, Lydard was already being taken from the front yard of the Johnson residence by rescuemen. Pearson and Stiles said they entered the Johnson home and found Mrs. Johnson in a front bedroom, painfully wounded but fully conscious. The wounded woman told police this version of the shootings. She said that Lydard, separated from her husband, is residing at the Johnson residence. About 3 p. m. yesterday. Lydard came to the house at Sellman and when his wife refused to see him remarked to Mrs. Johnson, "I'm fed up with life and have i nothing to live for." He then left and apparently went to his own house. He was gone a little more than an hour, Mrs. Johnson told police, then she and Mrs. Lydard saw him approaching the Johnson residence, carrying a rifle. The two women locked the doors. Mrs. Lydard ran upstairs to hide while Mrs Johnson took cover under a staircase fronting the doorway. She said Lydard pounded on the door, but receiving no response from the women inside, fired six shots through the door. One ofthe bullets went through a riser of the stairs and struck the 79-year-old woman in the chest. Lydard turned away from the door and placing the rifle under his ear inflicted his own death-wound. Mrs. Lydard and Mrs. Johnson both said Mrs. Lydard helped the wounded to her bedroom where officers found her capable of giving a complete, coherent report on the shooting. Montgomery County Police said that with the death here of Lydard and the testimony of Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Lydard, their investigation is closed entirely. The suicide victim had been employed by the B&O Railroad in the signal department from young manhood until his demise. Besides his estranged wife, he is survived by seven children: Mrs. Ruby Leith, Thomas Irven Lydard, Jr., both of Sellman; Raymond and Frankie Eugene Lydard, both U.S. Army; Mrs. Annie Phillips, Sellman; Mrs. Bessie Carboaugh, Frederick; Miss Janet Lydard, at home. The body rests at the funeral home in Barnesville, where friends may call after 5 o'clock this evening. Funeral services will be conducted there Saturday, 2 p.m. Interment will be in Monocacy cemetery, Beallsville. William B. Hilton, funeral director.

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Thomas Irven Lydard's memorial is located at: Monocacy Cemetery, Beallsville, Montgomery County, USA.
When did Thomas Irven Lydard death?
Thomas Irven Lydard death on 26 Jan 1955 in Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
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Latitude: 39.1800003
Longitude: -77.4163971

Family Members:

Parent

James W. Lydard

(1865 - 1916)

Virginia Dorothy Phillips Lydard

(1862 - 1946)

Spouse

Annie Virginia “Ding” Nicholson Lydard

(1908 - 1987)

Children

Ruby Ellen Lydard Leith

(1927 - 1993)

Bessie Rebecca Lydard Carbaugh

(1933 - 2003)

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