The Chariton Patriot Chariton, Iowa Thursday, August 4, 1875 AFORD VANSICKLE, a farmer living in Union County, south of Afton, started to the latter place last Saturday accompanied by his wife and children, with a load of hogs, upon the proceeds of which his wife intended visiting friends in Illinois. They were proceeding quietly, when suddenly he put his arms around his wife, and, kissing her, said: "You have caused me a great deal of trouble and have got to die," and instantly fired with a revolver, two balls entering her breast, and as she sprang from the wagon he fired another ball into her back. The woman died almost immediately. VANSICKLE then laid down beside the wife and shot himself. He is still lingering, but his death is inevitable. VANSICKLE was 37 years old and his wife was 40. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thursday, August 11, 1875 ALBERT VANSICKLE, the Union County man who so strangely murdered his wife, and then shot himself, after living several days with a pistol ball in his brain, is dead, as we learn by the Afton Tribune. He was buried at the side of his murdered wife, and the same minister preached the funeral sermon of the slayer and the slain. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert October 19, 2005 iggy29@rnetinc.net 'A Closed Mouth Gathers No Foot.'