Cumberland County NJ Archives Obituaries.....Sheppard, Benjamin H.  August 31, 1859
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West-Jersey pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1851-1884: September 03, 1859
Died in Bridgeton, on the 31st ult., Benjamin H. Sheppard, in the 53d year of his
age. On Wednesday morning last one of our most worthy citizens, Mr. Benjamin
Sheppard, committed suicide by hanging himself in his barn. For some time past, he
has been laboring under mental derangement. About five o’clock in the morning he
left the room in which he had been sleeping with his little boy, and it is supposed
proceeded immediately to commit the fatal deed. When the family awoke and called Mr.
S., they became alarmed at his absence, and made immediate search for him. His
daughter looking into the barn, saw her father suspended by the neck to a beam back
of the stalls. The alarm was given, and Mr. Robert Jordan, in company with another
neighbor, unloosed the thick rope which had been wound several times around the
cross piece of timber on which he hung. His toes touched the ground, but no signs of
a struggle were visible. It is supposed he swung off of a sill within a step or two
of where he was hanging.
This sad occurrence caused quite an excitement in Bridgeton during the morning, and
has cast a gloom over many sorrowing relatives and friends. Mr. Sheppard was about
52 years of age and a worthy member of the Commerce Street M. E. Church. A wife and
seven children are left to mourn his loss.

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