____________________________________________________________________________ Maj. Wm. H. Preston The many friends and acquaintances of Maj. Wm. H. Preston of Murfreesboro, Pike Co., will be shocked to learn that he is no more, and that he died by his own hand. On the evening of the 7th inst. we learn that he went into a room to change clothes and remained so long that his wife became uneasy about him and went into the room to ascertain the cause, when to her horror, she found him on the bed and four empty one ounce bottles labeled "Laudanum" sitting on a chair nearby. When his wife entered the room he pointed to the bottles and remarked that she could see what he had done for himself. A physician was immediately summoned, but Maj. Preston stoutly refused to take any antedote declaring it to be his full and unalterable determination to destroy his life. He died about six o'clock next morning. ____________________________________________________________________________ Southern Standard, January 18, 1873, page 3, column 2. ____________________________________________________________________________ HTML file and design by David Kelley, 1997. All rights reserved.