Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Seger, Louisa 1912
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel, Friday, June 21, 1912


Mrs. Louisa Seger, living in southwestern Keene township committed suicide 
Thursday by taking strychnine which she had purchased at Belding the preceding 
day.  She died a short time afterward having taken enough of the drug to kill a 
hundred people.  Mr. and Mrs. Seger, who have no children came to Keene last 
March from Freeport and have been living there since.  Fear that she would lose 
her mind was the cause of the act as it shown by a letter which Mrs. Seger left 
and which was found in her dress after death.

Mrs. Seger left the house and started to where her husband was plowing.  When 
he came to the house he had not seen her and started out to find her.  He found 
his wife in the orchard sitting under a tree.  When he approached she started 
away on hands and knees.  She had a tin cup and Mr. Seger asked what it was 
for, his wife replying “Nothing.”  He then took her to the house where she 
asked for a drink of water.  As soon as she drank the water she fell to the 
floor and died in a few minutes.  She had taken the strychnine while in the 
orchard.

The letter which Mrs. Seger left was addressed to her husband and testified to 
the happy life they had lived together.  She could not stand it any longer, she 
said, as she feared that her mind was leaving.  She had not told her husband 
how she had been feeling, the letter read, because she knew it worried him.

Mrs. Seger’s father, who lives in Freeport, came to the place to visit them 
Thursday and found his daughter dead when he arrived.

Coroner Boynton went out there last evening but the facts were so plain that no 
inquest was held.  

Mrs. Seger went to Belding Wednesday and while there had some certificates of 
deposit which she had in her name changed to her husband’s account.  She also 
purchased the strychnine.


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