Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Gott, Rachel October 17, 1899
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Portland Observer – Wednesday 25 October 1899
Rachel Gott, wife of George Gott, who took her own life by arsenic last 
Tuesday, mention of which was made exclusively in The Observer last week, was 
buried from her late home on Thursday afternoon, Rev. Terburgh officiating.  
While there are those, as in all such cases, to whom she is alleged to have 
told this and that, there is no doubt but that several causes led her to 
commit the rash act – disappointment real or imaginary (or both), domestic 
troubles and the belief that her whole family with the exception of her son 
Willis had turned against her.  Arrangements which she made and details which 
she attended to personally before her death leave not the shadow of a doubt 
that it was premeditated; but it is no less sad the taking of one’s own life 
under such circumstances.
Deceased was a consistent member of the Congregational church and was worthy 
the respect in which she was held.  Mrs. Gott was 60 years of age and beside a 
husband leaves three children Mrs. E. B. Huntoon and Willis and Gerry Gott all 
residing in Portland.


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Portland Cemetery - Lot EMD 252

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