A. O. Lewis, a well known resident of Fontanelle, committed suicide by shooting himself at Nickerson last Thursday afternoon. Mr. Lewis came down from Chambers, Neb. where he had been visiting his son, on the afternoon train on the Elkhorn, and a few minutes after was seen to go to the closet south of the depot. Shortly after a shot was heard and Warren Mulliken and Mr. Rizer, the station agent, went to the closet to learn the cause. They saw blood flowing from under the door and opening it discovered Mr. Lewis on the floor in a dying condition. Mr. Lewis was 71 years of age and for many years was engaged in the mercantile business at Fontanelle. He had been in poor health for several years and was very despondent. He was a brother of O.K. Lewis of Arlington, and was a member of the I.O.O.F. lodge at that place. He leaves a wife and two children, aged 22 and 18 respectively. Messrs. and Mesdames A. C. Jones, Henry Mencke and C. R. Mead and E. S. Gaylord attended the funeral at Fontanelle Sunday.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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