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- Lockport Union Sun & Journal, Tuesday evening August 18, 1931
MIDDLEPORT WOMAN IN DESPONDENCY FIT TAKES HER OWN LIFE
Found By Family With Head Immersed In Water Trough.
Two previous attempts to end her life having proven unsuccessful, Mrs. Wilhelmina Downey, 52 years old housekeeper at the home of John Compton on the Freeman Road, two miles south of Middleport, committed suicide between four and five o'clock this morning, by plunging her head and shoulders into a watering trough in the barn, made from a half barrel. Coroner Frank T. Carmer, M. D., of Newfane, was summoned, and he issued a certificate of death by suicide. In ill health for many years, Mrs. Downey had been confined to the bed much of the time the past year and a half, Coroner Carmer states, and in fits of meloncholia, she made the previous attempts to end her life within a comparatively recent period - once by smothering and once by hanging. Her sister, Mrs. Fred Dohring also resides at the same address, and members of the family, missing her from her room early this morning, instituted a search and made the discovery. Born near Gasport, Mrs. Downey Is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Grassman of Royalton Center, one brother and seven sisters.
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Lockport Union Sun & Journal,
Tuesday Evening, August 18, 1931
Wilhelmina M., wife of the late Thomas J. Downey passed away early Tuesday morning at the home of her sister, Mrs. Fred Dohring, Freeman Road Middleport, aged 52 years. She leaves to mourn her parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Grassman, Sheldon road, seven sisters and one brother. Mrs. Fred Dohring, Mrs. Edward Cook, Mrs. Willis Jackson of town of Royalton, Mrs. Berner, Mrs. Peter Mulsiner, Niagara Falls, Carrie of Medina, Helen and Leo of Lockport. Funeral will be held Thursday afternoon, 2:30, Standard Time, from the residence of her sister, Mrs. Fred Dohring. Burial in Mount Ridge cemetery, Rev. Herman Ewald officiating.
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1879 - 1931 (52 years)