Daily Dispatch (Va)
18 May 1915
CONFEDERATE VETERAN VICTIM OF HIS OWN HAND
[Special to the Times-Dispatch]
MANASSAS, VA., May 17. -- News was received here to-day that Caylor (Caleb?) S. Deats, seventy-seven years old, a Confederate veteran, committed suicide at the home of his son, W. T. Deats, near Orlando, Prince William County, yesterday evening about 7 o'clock. No cause is given. Mr. Deats had seated himself beneath some trees in the yard. He placed a gun in front of him and pulled the trigger with his cane. The discharge of the weapon blew off the top of his head. He was found by members of the household who had gone to a nearby spring for water. Surviving is a son, W. T. Deats; three sisters, one living in Manassas, and two brothers. The funeral services will take place tomorrow at Orlando with interment at that place.
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