OBITUARY: Boonville, Indiana Enquirer - May 15, 1886:
BENJ. HEILMAN COMMITS SUICIDE BY JUMPING INTO A CISTERN
Benjamin Heilman, a farmer living near Millersburg, this county, committed suicide by tying a rock to his neck and then jumping into a cistern last Tuesday morning, while his wife and children were eating breakfast. It is thought that the unfortunate fellow was laboring under temporary insanity. Heilman leaves a family in moderate circumstances, and his children are all nearly grown. He attempted o take his life about a year ago by trying to drown himself in about two feet of water in Pigeon creek, near Millersburg, but was rescued in time to save his life.
BENJ. HEILMAN COMMITS SUICIDE BY JUMPING INTO A CISTERN
Benjamin Heilman, a farmer living near Millersburg, this county, committed suicide by tying a rock to his neck and then jumping into a cistern last Tuesday morning, while his wife and children were eating breakfast. It is thought that the unfortunate fellow was laboring under temporary insanity. Heilman leaves a family in moderate circumstances, and his children are all nearly grown. He attempted o take his life about a year ago by trying to drown himself in about two feet of water in Pigeon creek, near Millersburg, but was rescued in time to save his life.
OBITUARY: Boonville, Indiana Enquirer - May 15, 1886:
BENJ. HEILMAN COMMITS SUICIDE BY JUMPING INTO A CISTERN
Benjamin Heilman, a farmer living near Millersburg, this county, committed suicide by tying a rock to his neck and then jumping into a cistern last Tuesday morning, while his wife and children were eating breakfast. It is thought that the unfortunate fellow was laboring under temporary insanity. Heilman leaves a family in moderate circumstances, and his children are all nearly grown. He attempted o take his life about a year ago by trying to drown himself in about two feet of water in Pigeon creek, near Millersburg, but was rescued in time to save his life.
BENJ. HEILMAN COMMITS SUICIDE BY JUMPING INTO A CISTERN
Benjamin Heilman, a farmer living near Millersburg, this county, committed suicide by tying a rock to his neck and then jumping into a cistern last Tuesday morning, while his wife and children were eating breakfast. It is thought that the unfortunate fellow was laboring under temporary insanity. Heilman leaves a family in moderate circumstances, and his children are all nearly grown. He attempted o take his life about a year ago by trying to drown himself in about two feet of water in Pigeon creek, near Millersburg, but was rescued in time to save his life.
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