Kosciusko-Elkhart County IN Archives Obituaries.....Hepler, Libbie May 6, 1900
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Nappanee News, 9 May 1900
SWALLOWED STRYCHNINE - A Girl in Her Teens Grows Tired of The World and 
Commits Suicide - The 17 years old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hepler, 4 
miles southeast of Nappanee, committed suicide last Sunday by swallowing a 
dose of strychnine.  There was, perhaps, some cause for this self-destruction, 
but it has gone to the grave with her, so far as the public is concerned, and 
it is best that it should be so.  Between the terrible convulsions which 
attacked her after taking the poison at about 3 oclock in the afternoon until 
death came to her relief at 7 in the evening, she steadfastly refused to say 
why she took the poison.  She had not been in the best of health for over a 
year, but was, it is understood, getting better of late.  The funeral was held 
Tuesday at the Union church south of town and the interment took place at that 
cemetery under direction of Walters & Snyder.  If there was any love affair at 
the bottom of this young life the poetry has all been reduced to prose - hard 
prose, for those whom she leaves behind to mourn her untimely and uninviting 
death.

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