Statesville, April 8--Funeral Services for Mr. Milas Van Hoy of Union Grove township were held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Union Grove Methodist Church and the interment was in the church cemetery.
Mr. Van Hoy committed suicide early Tuesday morning by shooting himself through the head. His body was found about 12:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon in the yard of an unoccupied dwelling house, about one-fourth of a mile from his home. Mr. Van Hoy left home Tuesday morning between 3 and 4 o’clock, it us understood. Members of his family are said to have heard him leave the house, but attached no importance to the incident until he failed to return and it was discovered that he had taken his shotgun with him. Search was instituted and his body was found shortly afternoon Tuesday.
The position of the body, near the porch of the house, indicated that Mr. Van Hoy was standing on the porch at the time he shot himself, his body apparently having fallen from the porch. His gun was found under the body. The load from the gun had entered the right side of his head, toward the back, and the top of his head was blown off.
From page 2 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, April 10, 1926
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