Vera Close George Close first wife MAY 1933. GUMMSVILLE WOMAN COMMITS SUICIDE TUES. Body of Mrs. George Close Found in Cistern; Believed Have Taken Poison. The Gummsville community and the county was shocked Tuesday afternoon when the news was spread that Mrs. George Close, age 34, had committed suicide, by either taking parish green or drowning in a nearby cistern. Mr. Close, her husband, had gone soon after dinner to the store of J.W. Gumm at Gummsville, to make arrangements for some chicken coops in which he and Mrs. Close intended to bring a flock of chickens to the Greensburg market the next day. He had only been at the store a short time when Mrs. Close called Mrs. Curtis Gumm over the telephone and asked her in a distressed manner to tell Mr. Close to hurry home immediately. After making some small purchases of groceries at the store he started home, a distance of approximately one mile, and was probably 30 minutes covering the distance as he was walking. When he arrived at the house Mrs. Close was not present, he began to call and search for her and on going out the back door found a note on which was written Take me to a hospital PLEASE. He then walked a short distance to the hen house and not finding her there went to a vacant tenant house 500 yards away, on which premises there was a dug cistern. He went directly to the cistern because he noticed when he came in sight of it that the covering had been removed. It was then the dead body was discovered floating on top of the water face downward. He quickly spread the alarm and hundreds of neighbors and citizens of the community rushed to the scene. A ladder was procured on which William Grimsley descended, fastening a rope around the body to bring it to the surface. The cistern was fifteen feet deep, probably 6 feet in diameter, and contained nine feet of water. A telephone message to Dr H. B. Simpson requesting that he come and bring another doctor with him was made shortly after the finding of the body. He was accompanied to the scene by Dr. S. J. Simmons, but as a post-mortem was not held the exact cause of her death is not known. It was believed by the physicians and Mr. Close that the deceased had swallowed some parish green as particles of this poison was found on the kitchen floor, and a considerable amount was missing out of a package which Mr. Close had bought to use on his plant beds. Mrs. Close was in apparently good health as she had just prior to her death done her weeks washing, which was hanging on the line and hardly dried when she was found. Vera Thompson Close was the oldest daughter of the late Dr. E. L. Thompson of Pierce and is survived by her husband and one sister Emma Goins of Anderson County. The funeral will be conducted today at her old home at Pierce, Ky, by the Rev. T. S. Curry of Campbellsville, and burial will be in the family cemetery at Pierce. [Article provided by Carolyn Scott, Green Co KY]
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