Extracted from The Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, MO)
Saturday, February 4, 1939

LEFT FAREWELL NOTE

Gentry Man Who Killed Himself Had Relatives in Nodaway

Ellsworth McMichael, 19-year-old Gentry, Mo., farmer, whose funeral services were held last Friday afternoon at Gentry, was a brother of Vernon McMichael and a half-brother of Mrs. Charles D. Davis, both of Guilford.

Young McMichael killed himself with a 12-gauge shotgun Wednesday morning of last week after he told his wife he was going rabbit hunting. His body was found later near a corn crib on the McMichael farm. Inside the crib was found a note in which McMichael merely said "goodbye everybody." He had been in ill health.

McMichael and his wife lived with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer McMichael, on a farm three and a half miles southwest of Gentry.

Surviving are the widow and a child born on the same day of the father's burial; the parents and a brother and three half-sisters in addition to the two living at Guilford.