Berrien County MI Archives Obituaries.....Chapel/Chappel, Frank April 5, 1885
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Buchanan Record, Thurs. April 9, 1885, page 3
Buchanan Record, Thurs. April 9, 1885, page 3

SUICIDE—Master Frank Chapel, who has been serving as chore boy for Mr. S.E.
Cadwell during the past winter, aged about eighteen years, committed suicide by
hanging, Sunday evening.  Mrs. Cadwell went to his room in the chamber, Monday
morning, to call him, and found his dead body hanging by a cotton clothes-line,
noosed about his neck and fastened to a collar beam overhead.  His clothes were
on him and his bed undistrubed, showing that the deed was done early in the
evening before.  He had frequently spoken of intending to hang himself, but no
one looked upon it as more than a boy’s whim, and paid no attention to it.  No
good reason can be given for it other than 


Additional Comments:
Per Michigan GENDIS record, Ledger page 98, record 263, date of death was Apr.
24, 1885 (Probable transcription error), Frank Chappel, age 18 years, 4 months,
20 days, Cause of death "Suicide by Hanging", birthplace Buchanan, Father Lucius
Chappel, deceased, mother Sarah Chappel, Buchanan.

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