Ernest ATNIP - 1 Apr 1892 - 15 Oct 1917
"SOLDIER ENDS LIFE. Mr. Ernest Atnip, who was one of the soldiers at Camp Taylor and who left here with the last contingent on the 3rd of Oct., committed suicide early Monday morning by drinking carbolic acid.
"He reached his home at Eighty Eight Saturday on a two days furlough, being due back in Louisville, Monday. He was terribly dissatisfied with camp life and on Sunday told a number of his neighbors that he would rather die and be buried at Refuge than go back to army life. Some time Sunday afternoon he traded for a pistol. It is thought he then had planned to take his life, but finding no cartridges to fit it, he procured the ten cent bottle of carbolic acid.
"He was at the home of his father-in-law, Mr. J. W. Denham, having married Miss Virdie Denham just a few months ago.
"A little before sun up the family went out to breakfast and the young man told them he did not care for any. A few minutes later, he called his sister-in-law, and told her what he had done, telling her not to tell his wife or anybody else. He died about five minutes later, before the doctor arrived.
"He was about 23 years of age and belonged to a well-known family in the section in which he lived. The young man himself was regarded as a splendid fellow and good citizen, but seemed to be possessed with horror at the thought of having to go to war. He was a member of the Baptist church.
"His wife and his aged mother survive him and the Rev. Geo. Atnip, Baptist preacher, is his brother.
"The burial will take place sometime today at Refuge."
Unknown Glasgow KY newspaper. |
