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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:54:48 -0400


Glynn County GaArchives Obituaries.....GOODYEAR, Charles Porter Jr. April 6, 1931
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The Brunswick News; Mon. & Wed. 6 & 8 April 1931; pg. 8 cols. 1-2 & pg. 8 col. 4

CHARLES P. GOODYEAR ENDS HIS LIFE AT OFFICE EARLY TODAY—Uses Small Rope to
Hang Himself and is Discovered by Wife When She Visited His Office

Driven to a point of desperation by ill health and financial reverses, Charles
P. Goodyear, 58 years of age, this morning ended his life by hanging himself
in the office of his plant foot of Prince street.

That Mr. Goodyear had planned to end his troubles when he left his home this
morning was indicated in notes he left and his actions after arising shortly
after 6 o’clock. He evidently went to his office to carry out plans which he
had made during the night, and before he ended it all he uncovered his
typewriter, wrote four notes, one to his wife, tow to two business friends and
the fourth, not addressed, as an explanation of the act he had planned.

“My left eye is completely blind. Regardless of internal and external
medicines the right eye is following identically the same way. Rather than to
be blind I prefer to pass out,” read the note which he left unaddressed. It
ended with this sentence:

“Old time customers, having got my confidence, have gone into bankrupt court,
and so many of them it breaks me in these depressed times. I do not prefer
the bankrupt court as a way out.”

Contents of the other three notes were not made public. They were enclosed in
envelopes and addressed, while the fourth was left open. All four were tied
together.

Mr. Goodyear left his home, corner Howe and Reynolds streets, shortly before 7
o’clock this morning and went directly to his office. Mrs. Goodyear, who
assisted her husband in the operations of his business, left her home about an
hour later and went to the plant. She noticed the front door was locked.
Looking into a window, near which stands Mr. Goodyear’s desk, she was startled
when the gruesome sight of her husband dangling from the end of a sash cord
stared her in the face. She was alone, but quietly called to workmen on the
wharf, who immediately summoned Coroner J.D. Baldwin and he took charge of the
body.

Mr. Goodyear, securing the cord probably after he reached the plant, as it is
known as “drum line” and carried by boats, climbed to the top of the building,
tying one end of the rope to a rafter, permitting the end to extend to a
distance of a few feet above the desk. Then he climbed to the top of his
desk, placed his head in the noose he had prepared and swung away, knowing
that he would strangle to death.

That he struggled as the end came was evidenced by the fact that one of his
feet rested on the top of the desk when his body was found. Coroner Baldwin
estimated that he had been dead fro probably half an hour before Mrs. Goodyear
discovered the body.

Mr. Goodyear, who was president and active head of the Goodyear Parking
Company, had been engaged in the shrimp business in Brunswick for many years,
in fact, he was one of the pioneers in the prawn industry along the South
Atlantic coast, and until that business received a serious set-back a few
years ago his company enjoyed a profitable business. That Mr. Goodyear has
been worrying over financial matters in recent months was known to members of
his family and to friends, and ill health had also caused him considerable
worry.

The deceased was a son of the late Charles P. Goodyear, prominent Brunswick
attorney, who many years ago retired from a profitable practice of law to
devote his time to the deepening of Brunswick[s] outer bar, and who won fame
in his big undertaking.

He is survived by his widow, his mother, four children, Miss Marie Goodyear,
who is attending the Georgia State Women’s College at Milledgeville; Charles,
Genevieve and Cyrus. Two brothers, S.W., of this city, and Benjamin, of
Jacksonville, and one sister, Mrs. E.W. Mitchell, of Miami, also survive.

Funeral arrangements, in charge of Mortician Edo Miller, have not as yet been
arranged, pending the arrival of relatives in the city. It was announced,
however, that the funeral will be held on Wednesday, the hour and other
details to be announced later.



The Brunswick News; Wednesday 8 April 1931; pg. 8 col. 4

CHAS. P. GOODYEAR IS BURIED TODAY

Funeral services for the late Chas. P. Goodyear were held from the residence
on Reynolds street at 3 o’clock this afternoon, Rev. C.C. Davison, of the
First Baptist church, officiating.

A large number of friends of this former well and popular known Brunswick
business man were present to pay a last tribute of respect. After services at
the residence the funeral cortege moved to Oak Grove cemetery, where interment
took place.


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