Elva Aney Richmond

Elva Nancy Aney Richmond's profile at Wikitree.

She was involved in a traumatic incident as a young woman.  A newspaper headline:

The Minneapolis Journal

 (Minnesota) 

28 Sep 1906 (Newspapers.com)

Cumberland, Wis., September 28th--

Miss Elva Aney, charged with the murder of Albert Hewitt, was acquitted by the jury... .

On the night of June 13th, Albert asked Elva to secretly visit his home; she refused, said she would have nothing more to do with him and that she was engaged to another man.  When Albert abused her and chased her around, she threatened to shoot him. Elva ran back into the house, procured a shotgun as Albert continued up the stairway after her.  As he ignored her command to stop, she fired at his knee, which severed an artery, causing his death a few minutes later.

Elva Aney is a pretty 21 year old. She was orphaned at an early age and had to shift for herself.  She was staying with her grandmother on a farm near Chetek when the shooting occurred.

Public sentiment was strongly in favor of the girl, it being the popular belief that the shooting was justifiable.

Elva married William Edward Richmond on April 16, 1907, in Chetek, Barron, Wisconsin.  William was the son of Emory and Lodema Richmond.