Individual Details

Census (family)

Joshua Prouty M 74 Massachusetts, no occupation
William H Prouty M 23 Massachusetts, works in Boot Sho[
Maria L Prouty F 21 Massachusetts, keeping house
Abbie J Peel F 26 FW, Massachusetts, Last? Post Master

Census (family)

Wm H Prouty Self Male 33 Massachusetts, United States
Maria L Prouty Wife Female 31 Massachusetts, United States
Iris G Prouty Daughter Female 1 Massachusetts, United States
Louise Prouty Daughter Female 0 Massachusetts, United States
Bridget Conley Other Female 28 Ireland

Death

The Reading Eagle, Monday, January 9, 1899
Suicide Suicide's Sequel.
The Mother of Young Hammond's Sweetheart, Brooding Over His Death, Kills Herself.
Spencer: Mrs. Maria Teal Prouty, wife of William H. Prouty, of this place, committed suicide by strangling herself with a small silk handkerchief.
Mrs. Prouty was the mother of Miss Iris Prouty, whose sweetheart, Henry Hammond, shot himself to death on Friday last. the young couple were to have been married. The only cause discovered for Hammond's suicide was his extreme bashfulness, which, it was thought, made him seek death rather than undergo the ordeal of a marriage ceremony.
Mrs. Prouty was deeply attached to young Hammond, and it is believed that her mind was unsettled by brooding over his death.
(http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xcAhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LZ0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6523,2270445&dq=prouty&hl=en)

Page 2 of The Story County Watchman, published in Nevada, Iowa on Friday, January 13th, 1899
Strangled Herself
Worcester, Mass., Jan. 9. -- Mrs. Maria Prouty committed suicide by strangling herself with a handkerchief. She was the wife of William H. Prouty, a retired shoemaker, and the mother of Miss Iris D. Prouty, whose fiancee, Harry Hamond, shot and killed himself Saturday.