Ionia-Montcalm County MI Archives Obituaries.....Benjamin, Coral 1909
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The Carson City Gazette, Friday, October 8, 1909
Coral Benjamin, son of Wm. Benjamin, who lives on the James Handlon Farm, two 
miles south of town, committed suicide Saturday night by hanging.  He and his 
twin brother, Oral, had both been in town Saturday evening.  They each had a 
horse and buggy and when Oral went to run his buggy in on the barn floor about 
11:30 p.m. a lighted lantern was sitting in his brother’s buggy and the 
lifeless body of Coral was hanging by a rope from an overlay above the barn 
floor.  He had gone home about nine o’clock and after taking care of his rig, 
went into the house and upstairs to bed.  Soon afterwards he came down and 
went out but his parents, who had retired thought nothing of it.  When his 
brother discovered the body he at once called his father and the two cut the 
body down.  Dr. F. Taylor was at once called but life was extinct when he 
arrived.  Justice A. B. Goodwin was also summoned but it was not deemed 
necessary to call a coroner’s jury.

The deceased was twenty-three years old last January.  He went to Ann Arbor in 
January and underwent an operation for appendicitis.  He had suffered much of 
the time since the operation, could work but little and did not rest well at 
night.  The deed was entirely without warning to the family but despondency 
over his poor health is thought to have been the cause of the sad act.  


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