by "D. Spencer Hines" <panther@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Dec 14, 2007 at 10:18 PM
Sad...
I'm sorry.
Perhaps an incurable cancer?
Leaving a wife and 14 children -- rough...
How did they manage?
Marengo County where -- what state?
Just Post-Civil War.
Difficult times for many.
DSH
"John Brandon" <starbuck95@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:b77b3139-8803-4f9a-9142-bb8042e43bda@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Why the suicide and when?
>
> 1867, I believe. The Marengo County mugbook stated that he had been
> ill for some time previous to the suicide.