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i think you might be interested in this article
COGWELL ADA J (COGSWELL ADA J. 2/10/1854 3/3/1893)
COGSWELL GOULD (COGSWELL GOULD S. 10/20/1831 3/3/1893)
A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY
A Schuyler County Farmer Kills His Only Child AND THEN COMMITS SUICIDE
The Man Supposed to Have Committed the Deeds During a Fit of Insanity - A Tragedy Unparalleled in That Section
Special to the Gazette
Cayuta, N. Y., March 4 - The most horrible tragedy that ever occurred in this section of the state was committed yesterday about a mile and a half north of Alpine village and four miles north of this place. Gould Cogswell, a farmer residing with his second wife and a daughter by his first wife, came into the house and told his wife that he had decided to put his daughter out of the way. No sooner had he made the statement than he grabbed up a revolver and going into the room, where his daughter who was an invalid lay, shot her dead. His wife, paralyzed with fear and excitement, was powerless to prevent the commission of the horrible crime. After shooting his daughter Cogswell went out into the barn and securing a rope climbed upon a high beam. He tied one end of the rope around his neck and the other around the beam. To make the job complete he then placed the revolver, with which he had killed his daughter, to his head and shot himself, at the same time jumping off th!
e beam. Death was instantaneous in each case. No motive for the crime can be conceived, the general impression being that Cogswell's mind had become unbalanced. He was about 50 years old and his about 20. He owned a farm on Oak Hill, and last summer built a store which he afterwards sold. He was worth about $6,000.
Later Particulars.
(Special Dispatch to the Gazette.)
Watkins, N. Y., March 4. - Cogswell's wife and another daughter, Mrs. Roe of Townsend, were in the sitting room when he took a revolver from a shelf and said he was going to shoot a cat. Shortly after, two shots were heard, and upon stepping into the kitchen they found his daughter lying on the floor. He was just going out the back door. The unfortunate young woman was dead when discovered, have been shot through the heart and head. As soon as possible they started after Cogswell and, upon entering the barn, they found that he had gotten upon a wagon and put his head through a slip noose and then shot himself through the head and fell forward off the wagon and was strangled as well as shot. No reason can be assigned for his rash acts except that of temporary insanity caused by a recent illness. He leaves another daughter, Mrs. W. S. Osborn of Hector. His wife is a sister of T. C. Cole of this village. Mr. Cogswell was about sixty years of age and his daughter thirty!
. (Elmira Daily Gazette & Free Press, Page 7, Sat. Eve., 4 March 1893)
Hornellsville Weekly Tribune - March 24, 1893
Gould Cogswell, a wealthy farmer living near Havana, N.Y., shot and instantly killed his invalid daughter, and immediately afterward hung himself to a rafter in his barn. When found life was extinct. Loss of money is supposed to have unbalanced his mind.
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Gould cogswell is my 3x great grandfather his daughter is Edith married walter roe their daughter goldie married ralph crain who is my great grandfather do you have any more info on them
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