Walton County GaArchives News.....Mr. Gideon H. Allen, Suicide July 11 1873 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Phyllis Thompson http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002524 July 9, 2004, 10:13 pm The Georgia Enterprise The following information was obtained from a communication to the Herald from Mr. J. W. Garrett. Mr. Gideon H. Allen, of Walton county, committed suicide, yesterday morning,about 9 o'clock, by hanging. He has been demented for several weeks- frequently in that time he told his family he would kill himself, but always came home at night. He left home with a rope, yesterday morning, telling his family not to follow him, which they did not, thinking it would turn out as on other occasions, but he did not return at night as usual, whereupon the family, with the neighbors, began to search, but failed to find him until this morning. The rope was tied to the trunk of a tree, which was still held by the stump about ten feet from the ground, the top resting on the ground; his neck was not broken, his feet, even resting on the ground. There was no evidence of a struggle, as not even the leaves about him were disturbed. He was deranged about fifteen years ago, but had recovered up to a short time since. He was over sixty years of age. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/walton/newspapers/nw1244mrgideon.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb