Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Salzer, Frantz November 14 1910
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The Cairo Messenger, Friday, November 18, 1910
Mr. Frantz Salzer, a German by birth, and who resided about seven or eight 
miles south of Whigham, came to Cairo last Monday on the 1:15 P.M. train, and 
was supposed to be attending to some business. At about seven o'clock he told 
several parties that he was on his way to Meigs to do some carpenter work.  He 
stayed around the depot walking up and down the A.C.L. tracks and the sidewalk 
near the depot.  A little later he went to the Wight Hardware Company store and 
bought a plow line.  A short while afterwards, he was seen by Mr. Walter 
Harper, the night watchman, at the rear of the A.C.L. depot under the shed.  
Mr. Harper told him that he could not stay there, and that he would have to go 
into the waiting room and wait for his train.  Mr. Harper making another round 
over town, and returning to the depot noticed that Mr. Salzer was not near the 
waiting room.  He at once made a thorough search for Mr. Salzer, and found him 
hanging dead, to one of the back braces to the studding that supports the shed.

The Coroner's Jury verdict being that he came to his death by his own hands by 
tying a rope to the brace and the other end around his neck and then jumping 
off a bale of cotton.

Mr. Salzer came from Transylvania in Hungary several years ago.  He first 
resided in Alberta Canada, but the climate there not suiting him he moved to 
Pittsburg, Pa.  Not find suitable work he removed to Erie, Penn., after 
remaining there some time, he was advised to come down here and raise tobacco, 
as there was a fortune in it.  He purchased forty acres of land of Mr. Dan 
Jones of Whigham, Ga., paying $200.00 down and gave his note for the balance of 
$400.00, and made a pretty good crop, the first year, but nobody would trust 
him for enough to erect suitable barns in which to store his tobacco and so 
lost all on this account.

Mr. Salzer leaves a wife and two daughters and one son, who lived with him, 
also one married son who resides in Pennsylvania.  His body was carried to his 
home south of Whigham by Mr. E. G. Harrell, the Coroner.

Mr. Salzer appeared to be a man of sixty odd years of age and despondency over 
his many financial troubles is supposed to be the cause of the rash act. 

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