Samuel Kiefer
Column appeared Friday, June 28, 1895
His grief unendurable because of his wife's death, wealthy Farmer Commits
Suicide.
Samuel Kieffer, a well-to-do farmer, residing in Bucks County, near Kintnersville, committed suicide Wednesday afternoon by hanging himself in his barn. Kieffer's wife died last January and since that time, he had been despondent. During the past week, he had been in the habit of taking a short sleep in his barn after dinner. Because of that fact several of his children had no suspicion that anything was wrong, when he went to the barn on Wednesday, after having told the little ones to pick cherries. At 3 o'clock, their father having failed to return from the barn, the children started a search for him, when one of the sons, 11 years of age, found the lifeless body suspended from a rafter. Help was called and the body was cut down, but life had flown. The man had evidently been dead some time. The deceased was 49 years old. His wife, was a daughter of William Hahn, of Williams Township. Mr. Kieffer leaves eight children, the youngest only about 6 years of age.
Column appeared Friday, June 28, 1895
His grief unendurable because of his wife's death, wealthy Farmer Commits
Suicide.
Samuel Kieffer, a well-to-do farmer, residing in Bucks County, near Kintnersville, committed suicide Wednesday afternoon by hanging himself in his barn. Kieffer's wife died last January and since that time, he had been despondent. During the past week, he had been in the habit of taking a short sleep in his barn after dinner. Because of that fact several of his children had no suspicion that anything was wrong, when he went to the barn on Wednesday, after having told the little ones to pick cherries. At 3 o'clock, their father having failed to return from the barn, the children started a search for him, when one of the sons, 11 years of age, found the lifeless body suspended from a rafter. Help was called and the body was cut down, but life had flown. The man had evidently been dead some time. The deceased was 49 years old. His wife, was a daughter of William Hahn, of Williams Township. Mr. Kieffer leaves eight children, the youngest only about 6 years of age.
Samuel Kiefer
Column appeared Friday, June 28, 1895
His grief unendurable because of his wife's death, wealthy Farmer Commits
Suicide.
Samuel Kieffer, a well-to-do farmer, residing in Bucks County, near Kintnersville, committed suicide Wednesday afternoon by hanging himself in his barn. Kieffer's wife died last January and since that time, he had been despondent. During the past week, he had been in the habit of taking a short sleep in his barn after dinner. Because of that fact several of his children had no suspicion that anything was wrong, when he went to the barn on Wednesday, after having told the little ones to pick cherries. At 3 o'clock, their father having failed to return from the barn, the children started a search for him, when one of the sons, 11 years of age, found the lifeless body suspended from a rafter. Help was called and the body was cut down, but life had flown. The man had evidently been dead some time. The deceased was 49 years old. His wife, was a daughter of William Hahn, of Williams Township. Mr. Kieffer leaves eight children, the youngest only about 6 years of age.
Column appeared Friday, June 28, 1895
His grief unendurable because of his wife's death, wealthy Farmer Commits
Suicide.
Samuel Kieffer, a well-to-do farmer, residing in Bucks County, near Kintnersville, committed suicide Wednesday afternoon by hanging himself in his barn. Kieffer's wife died last January and since that time, he had been despondent. During the past week, he had been in the habit of taking a short sleep in his barn after dinner. Because of that fact several of his children had no suspicion that anything was wrong, when he went to the barn on Wednesday, after having told the little ones to pick cherries. At 3 o'clock, their father having failed to return from the barn, the children started a search for him, when one of the sons, 11 years of age, found the lifeless body suspended from a rafter. Help was called and the body was cut down, but life had flown. The man had evidently been dead some time. The deceased was 49 years old. His wife, was a daughter of William Hahn, of Williams Township. Mr. Kieffer leaves eight children, the youngest only about 6 years of age.
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Son of Joseph Kiefer and Wilhelmia Eichman
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