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Clarence Burlew Marsh

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Clarence Burlew Marsh

Birth
Poseyville, Posey County, Indiana, USA
Death
30 Jan 1939 (aged 50)
Burial
Poseyville, Posey County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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IN PVT COAST ATRY CORPSWas a Private in the Coast Artillery Corps, injured when a gun blew up in his face and blinded him in one eye. Received $25 per month as compensation for the injury.

His Mother was Edith Mae Westfall. Children by his first wife were Kenneth and Woodrow.

OBITUARY
Poseyville Citizen Ends Life
Poseyville was shocked Monday by the suicide of Clarence B. Marsh, 53, who ended his life by firing a bullet from a .22 rifle through his heart. At the time of the act Mr. Marsh was alone at the time, his wife and daughter, being at the home of his mother. They returned about 6:30 and found Mr. Marsh's lifeless body in the basement. He had been dead about an hour and a half. Ill health and despondency is the probable cause of the deed.
IN PVT COAST ATRY CORPSWas a Private in the Coast Artillery Corps, injured when a gun blew up in his face and blinded him in one eye. Received $25 per month as compensation for the injury.

His Mother was Edith Mae Westfall. Children by his first wife were Kenneth and Woodrow.

OBITUARY
Poseyville Citizen Ends Life
Poseyville was shocked Monday by the suicide of Clarence B. Marsh, 53, who ended his life by firing a bullet from a .22 rifle through his heart. At the time of the act Mr. Marsh was alone at the time, his wife and daughter, being at the home of his mother. They returned about 6:30 and found Mr. Marsh's lifeless body in the basement. He had been dead about an hour and a half. Ill health and despondency is the probable cause of the deed.


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