OBITS: Whaley and related families The CARLISLE MERCURY, Thursday, 7 Jan 1915, page 1 Nicholas Physician Commits Suicide at Lexington Despondent over the fact that an incurable facial growth from which he had been a sufferer for some time, had failed to yield to treatment. Dr. W.D. HOWE, of this county, committed suicide by severing the femoral artery in his thigh at the Good Samaritan Hospital, in Lexington, Saturday afternoon. Dr. HOWE had recently been operated on at a Cincinnati hospital and had been in the Lexington hospital just a week. He had sent out by a boy Friday and purchased the razor used in his self destruction pre--?--ably that he might be shaved. He was discovered by a colored attendant Saturday afternoon, and ----?---- the interne, who was hastily summoned by the darkey, reached Dr. HOWE's room, life was extact.. The body was brought to Carlisle on the night train Saturday. Funeral services were conducted from th residence on the Moorefield pike Monday afternoon by Rev. D. H. STARNS of the Moorefield Christian Church. Interment was in the Carlisle cemetery. Six brother physicians acted as pall bearers. They were: Drs. J. C. MARTIN, B. F. REYNOLDS, Bruce SMITH, W. H. MARTIN, G. B. SPENCER, H. R. BUNTIN. Dr. HOWE was born in this county January 17, 1866. He was the son of the late Harvery HOWE, of Moorefield. His mother, wife and one daughter, Miss Ethel and a sister, Mrs. Robert BLOUNT, survive. He was married three times, his first wife being Miss Retta TALBERT. To this union were born two children, Misses Ruth and Ethel HOWE. The former died some years ago.. His second wife was Miss Georgia SECREST. His present wife was a Miss EMBRY of Loveland, Ohio. The deceased had practiced medicine in this county, with the exception of a short stay in Covington and Lexington for a number of years. He was a graduate of the Ohio Medical College. Of recent years he had devoted a large portion of his time to farming. He was a member of a family which has always been prominent in the county, and his death came as a shock to a host of friends and relatives here. From: "H. Jean Dalrymple" Date: 13 Aug 1998