Berrien County MI Archives Obituaries.....Schnorf, Granville May 18, 1877
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Niles Republican II, Thurs. May 10, 1877, page 3
Niles Republican II, Thurs. May 10, 1877, page 3

Suicide

	Granville Schnorf, son of George Schnorf, who lives two miles north of the
City, committed suicide on Friday morning last.  Young Schnorf had been unwell
for several days, but the family had no thought of any mental derangement or
melancholy.  His father heard the discharge of his gun in the son’s room early
in the morning, and thought the young man had shot through the window at a bird
or something in the field.  Shortly afterwards he called Granville, but getting
no answer, entered his room and found him dead on the floor.  He had killed
himself with a shot gun.  He had tied one end of a string to the ramrod and the
other to the trigger and in this way he discharged the gun.  The full load of
shot struck him in the forehead, completely tearing off the top of his head. 
Young Schnorf was about 22 years of age.
	Since writing the above, we hear that the probable cause of this suicide was a
growing fear on the part of young Schnorf that he was to die of some disease
that would last long and give him unusual pain.


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