As the epitaph on her marker says, Miss Bollinger was murdered on September 13, 1908 while attending Sunday school at the M.E. Church in the Startown community in Catawba County, NC. Her parents believed that others knew that Lonnie Rader, a suitor she had spurned, had intentions to do her harm but kept quiet about it. Rader, a former mental patient at Broughton Hospital in Morganton,NC attacked her with a knife in church and she died almost instantly. The inscription on her marker reads:
MURDERED in the M.E. Church at Startown, N.C. while attending Sunday School Sept 13, 1908 by Lon W. Rader. aided by a few others by keeping his threats and preparations for him. In the hands of God she is safe from sin. From his envy, malice hatred and strife. His preparations and threats. They secretly kept and gave no chance to save her life.
Her killer died 12 years later in the insane asylum at Central Prison in Raleigh.
MURDERED in the M.E. Church at Startown, N.C. while attending Sunday School Sept 13, 1908 by Lon W. Rader. aided by a few others by keeping his threats and preparations for him. In the hands of God she is safe from sin. From his envy, malice hatred and strife. His preparations and threats. They secretly kept and gave no chance to save her life.
Her killer died 12 years later in the insane asylum at Central Prison in Raleigh.
As the epitaph on her marker says, Miss Bollinger was murdered on September 13, 1908 while attending Sunday school at the M.E. Church in the Startown community in Catawba County, NC. Her parents believed that others knew that Lonnie Rader, a suitor she had spurned, had intentions to do her harm but kept quiet about it. Rader, a former mental patient at Broughton Hospital in Morganton,NC attacked her with a knife in church and she died almost instantly. The inscription on her marker reads:
MURDERED in the M.E. Church at Startown, N.C. while attending Sunday School Sept 13, 1908 by Lon W. Rader. aided by a few others by keeping his threats and preparations for him. In the hands of God she is safe from sin. From his envy, malice hatred and strife. His preparations and threats. They secretly kept and gave no chance to save her life.
Her killer died 12 years later in the insane asylum at Central Prison in Raleigh.
MURDERED in the M.E. Church at Startown, N.C. while attending Sunday School Sept 13, 1908 by Lon W. Rader. aided by a few others by keeping his threats and preparations for him. In the hands of God she is safe from sin. From his envy, malice hatred and strife. His preparations and threats. They secretly kept and gave no chance to save her life.
Her killer died 12 years later in the insane asylum at Central Prison in Raleigh.
