Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Sumner, Melvin Eugene April 6, 1907 ************************************************ 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: Nan Wheaton wheaton1624@yahoo.com June 20, 2016, 4:07 pm Daily Sentinel - Tuesday, Aug. 6, 19007 ORANGE SUICIDE- MELVIN SUMNERKILL HIMSELF BY HANGING IN BARN About Noon Today - Body Found An Hour Later by Hugh Gallaway - Suicide was Unmarried and Lived With His Mother Melvin Sumner, an unmarried man, about 30 years of age residing with his mother in Orange, hung himself in the barn at noon today. The body was found at 1:30 by Hugh Galloway. No motive is known for the deed. Sumner lived with his mother, Mrs. Wm. Sumner, and a brother, Allie. Their farm is three quarters of a mile north and one mile east of Tremayne's Corners. Additional Comments: Burial- August 8, 1907 Tuttle cemetery Ctf. b. January 5, 1870 - age 37 year, 7M, 1day son of Wm. C. & Melissa (Wright) Sumner File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/sumner32888nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb