Anita (Warren) Warren-Hendrix
Harriet committed suicide. She jumped into a well in the Woodland community not far from Woodland Church in Pontotoc County MS.
When Harriet and Lemuel married they borrowed 500.00 dollars from Lindsay and Susan Johnston, Harriet's parents. Lindsay and Susan kept coming from Alabama to Pontotoc to help Lemuel and Harriet with the children. Harriet suffered from depression. After Harriet committed suicide, Lindsay and Susan came from Alabama to Pontotoc continuing to help Lemuel. Hulda King had moved in before Harriet killed herself to help nurse Harriett Ann and care for the other children. Lindsay and Susan told Lemuel that if he would marry Hulda, they would wipe away the debt that Harriet and he owed them. Lemuel married Hulda less than a year after Harriet killed herself.
This story was told to me by Sam Lemuel Roye as told to him by his Uncle James Roye.