Rutherfordton, March 28—Mr. Millard Harris took his life Monday morning about 8:30 o’clock at Forest City by stabbing himself with a knife and taking a piece of stove-wood and driving the knife into his heart. He was dying when found. Ill health is the only known cause of the horrible act. No note or statement was left. He moved from the Munford Cove section last fall to Forest City. He occupied the Horn brick house near the Baptist church for some time, until he moved near the new school building.
Monday morning he told the children to go ahead to school and he would help Mrs. Harris with the week’s washing. Mrs. Harris says he has worried much since his sone was killed by a tree some three years ago. For the past two weeks his mind was slightly unbalanced. Physicians had urged Mrs. Harris to watch him closely. He was thought to be improving.
Mr. Harris is survived by his widow, three children, two boys and one girl, and two brothers, Messrs. W.G. Harris of the Munford Cove section and J.H. Harris of Sugar Hill. He was 60 years of age and was a deacon in the Cove Baptist church.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at the Cove Baptist church. A large crowd of sorrowing friends and relatives were present.
Mr. Harris was a devoted Christian and a most honorable citizen. He was born and reared in this country. He had been a good farmer and was well to do. Our sympathy is extended to the bereaved family.
From the front page of The Goldsboro News, Saturday, March 29, 1924
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