Frank A. Rule Jr.
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise - January 18, 1935
FRANK RULE TAKES HIS OWN LIFE. Pioneer Resident of Eagle County Kills Self at Home in Gypsum Last Friday Morning.
The news of the death by his own hand of Frank RULE at his home just north of Gypsum last Friday morning was a great shock to this end of the county and was received with universal remarks of sorrow and surprise.
Mr. RULE had been at home alone for a few days. His son, Alvin, was in the hospital at Glenwood very low with typhoid fever and Mrs. RULE and their daughter were at the sick lad's bedside, while the other boys were working away from home. On Friday morning, Miss HIGHT, who lives over on the Colorado river, rode into Gypsum, stopping at Rule's place to stable her saddle horse at about 10:30 o'clock as was her custom. After putting the horse away, the young lady called at the house for a few works with Mrs. RULE, not being aware of the latter's absence. On getting no response to her knock at the door, she glanced in at the kitchen window and was appalled at the sight which greeted her. For she saw RULE laying stretched out on the floor with his brains oozing from his head. Afrightened at the sight she immediately told the neighbors of what she had seen, and on entering the house the unfortunate man was found to be dead. Doctor W. T. CONWAY, who was summoned, stating that life had apparently been extinct three to four hours. Shortly after seven o'clock that morning, Mr. and Mrs. Clint KING and Mr. and Mrs. John RULE, the latter a brother of the dead man, and both neighbors of the Rules, remarked on hearing a shot. From this the time of the tragedy is fixed at between seven and eight o'clock in the morning. RULE shot himself with a .32-.20 calibre revolver through the base of the skull, the ball passing through the head.
The deed is ascribed to financial and family affairs.
Frank RULE was one of the earliest residents of the county, coming here as a small child with his parents from the east. The family has been prominent in the affairs of the county since its first settlement. The father, Frank Rule, sr., moved to Glenwood only a few years ago, where he died within the past year. Frank RULE is survived by his mother, wife, three sons, and a daughter, and several brothers.
The funeral was held from the Methodist church in Glenwood, the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs, of which orders he was a member, of both Gypsum and Glenwood attending in a body to pay their last respects to their departed brother. The remains were laid to rest in the family burial lot in the Glenwood cemetery, beside the body of his father.
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