Henry Earl Parmenter – Commander, United States Navy

NAVAL OFFICER’S WIFE DEAD

WASHINGTON, October 15, 1901 – Mrs. Parmenter, wife of Lieutenant Henry E. Parmenter, a Naval officer on duty here, either fell or threw herself from a fourth story window in the Portland flats this morning and struck on a stone sidewalk fifty feet below.

The woman’s injuries were so severe that death resulted within an hour after her fall.

The Coroner certified that the case was one of suicide. The Coroner learned from the family physician that Mrs. Parmenter had been under treatment for some time for melancholia, and came to the conclusion that theact that committed at a time when her mind was affected to the extent making her wholly irresponsible for her actions.  Friends, however, assert that the death wasthe result of an accident.

Mrs. Paramenter was a niece of Rear Admiral Irwin who died recently.

PARMENTER, HENRY EARL
CMDR USNR

• DATE OF BIRTH: 04/10/1861
• DATE OF DEATH: 09/29/1941
• BURIED AT: SECTION WEST  SITE 519
  ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

PARMENTER, GRACE TAYLOR W/O H E

• DATE OF DEATH: 10/15/1901
• BURIED AT:   SITE 519
  ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

PARMENTER, HELEN B W/O HENRY EARL

• DATE OF BIRTH: 06/21/1875
• DATE OF DEATH: 01/19/1959
• BURIED AT: SECTION 1  SITE 519
  ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

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