Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Snyder, Catharine M. 1887 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net May 20, 2013, 7:50 pm The Portland Weekly Observer, Wednesday, May 4, 1887 John Snyder, living near the village of Palo, but in Bushnell township, Montcalm county, murdered his wife by cutting her head open with an axe while she was asleep in bed on Saturday night last. He then cut his own throat and wandered through the woods to the house of a neighbor where he was captured. Snyder is insane and is now in jail at Stanton. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/snyder20399nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 0.9 Kb