Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Edna Blackwelder, wife of J.M. Blackwelder, who died yesterday morning at her home at the Brown Mill, were held this afternoon at 2:30 at St. James Catholic Church, conducted by Rev. Father Kerman.
Mrs. Blackwelder was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Kellough of Brown Mill and was 36 years of age. She had been married about 16 years.
Surviving are her parents, husband, and the following children: Margaret Virginia, James W., Daniel E., Mafaldiad, Edgar and Paul Blackwelder.
Relatives deny that Mrs. Blackwelder’s death was caused by carbolic acid, as was first reported. She took an overdose of medicine by mistake, they report.
Editor's Note: Carbolic acid was a painful but common method of committing suicide in the 1920s, which is why the family is denying earlier reports.
From page 5 of The Concord Daily Tribune, May 27, 1926
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