1. | BRASSFIELD, John D was born on 6 Sep 1843 in North Carolina, USA (son of BRASFIELD, John Wiley and HILL, Sarah R); died on 2 Sep 1885 in Glasco, Cloud, Kansas, USA. Notes:
Glasco Sun, Cloud County, Kansas, Sept. 5, 1885, page 4:
Suicided
About two o'clock Wednesday afternoon, J.D. Brassfield was discovered by his family hanging in a young cottonwood tree, about one hundred yards southeast of his house. They cut him down and one of the boys hurriedly notified the neighbors.
The last his family had seen of him was between ten and eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and had supposed he had gone to one of the neighbors.
The deceased had taken a halter and fastened it to the top of the tree about twelve feet from the ground, climbing the tree with his boots on, and then as everything was fixed satisfactory to him, took off his boots and stood them a few feet from the tree selected for his own destruction. He again climbed the tree, adjusted the noose around his neck and swung himself into eternity. The only reason for this rash step is that he was working under a temporary spell of insanity, which seemed to trouble him every fall, yet no one supposed that it would ever cause him to plan or carry out his own destruction.
John Brassfield was a good man, industrious and prosperous. A good neighbor, a loving husband, and a kind father, and to whose family the sympathy of the entire community is extended in this their darkest hour of sorrow.
Notes for JOHN D. BRASSFIELD:
"J.D. Brassfield, who used to live in Union township, but who has lived in Kansas the last three years, committed suicide at his Kansas home. He was perhaps somewhat insane. He was sent to the insane asylum when a young man, and has been troubled somewhat at times since. We are indebted to W. W. Gentry for this information." Taken from an article written in the Winterset Madisonian newspaper, dated Sept. 17, 1885.
John married MCCLELLAND, Martha A. on 15 Aug 1867 in Patterson, Madison, Iowa, USA. Martha was born on 3 Apr 1846 in Shelbyville, Shelby, Indiana, USA; died on 17 Jul 1917 in Glasco, Cloud, Kansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- BRASSFIELD, Grace Mattie was born on 24 Sep 1881 in Woodbury, Iowa, USA; died on 27 Mar 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- BRASSFIELD, Wiley Martin was born on 15 Jun 1875; died on 19 Oct 1887 in Glasco, Cloud, Kansas, USA.
- BRASSFIELD, Carrie Clyde was born on 24 Nov 1878 in Unica Township, Madison County, Iowa; died on 25 Apr 1941 in Fresno, California, USA.
- BRASSFIELD, Victoria Naomi was born on 15 Jul 1868; died on 2 May 1871 in Iowa, USA; was buried on 3 May 1871 in Crawford Township, Madison County, Iowa (McGinnis Cemetery).
- BRASSFIELD, Butler Randolf was born on 13 Aug 1873 in Winterset, Madison, Iowa, USA; died on 4 Aug 1939 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, USA; was buried in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, USA.
- BRASSFIELD, Grant William was born on 12 Jan 1871 in Winterset, Madison, Iowa, USA; died on 17 Feb 1939 in Marysville, Marshall, Kansas, USA; was buried in Beloit, Mitchell, Kansas, USA.
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