This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hurt, Anderson, Stamper, Ray, Simpson, Long, Newby, Tudor Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xAB.2ACI/2157 Message Board Post: Sorry, no date McKnley Isbell, 28, farmer, residing in the Buckeye neighborhood, 12 miles from Lancaster, ended his life by sending a bullet through his head in a garage at the rear of the store of J. R. Sparks at Buckeye about one o'clock Friday afternoon. There were no witnesses to the shooting. Isbell lived only a minute after being found by J. R. Sparks, operator of the store. He had hurried to the garage immediately after hearing the report of a pistol. Isbell had been summoned as a witness in a case which was to have been investigated in the Garrard circuit court that afternoon. In company with two young men, Joe Ray and Ira McCulley, he started for Lancaster about noon, but turned back to Sparks' store after they had traveled a few miles. Isbell had gotten out of the car when the decision was reached to turn back. Upon arrival at the Sparks store, Isbell asked Ray to go into the store to purchase a package of cigarettes. While Ray was away Isbell entered the garage and ended his life. S. H. Anderson, coroner of Garrard county, examined the body of Isbell and returned the verdict of death "from a gunshot wound self-inflicted." The body was removed to the home of his sister, Mrs. Charles Murphy, who lives near the scene of the tragedy. Isbell was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Isbell, a prominent family in that section. He is survived by a brother and three sisters. Two years ago Isbell served as deputy sheriff under James Robinson and made a very capable officer. He was a nephew of Edward Chandler, of this city. Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon, interment following at Gunn's Chapel cemetery.