WILL: Alta M. ZULLINGER, 1916, Chambersburg, Franklin County, PA

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Source: Will Records, Franklin County, Pa
Written: 1912

No. 19490
Last will and testament of Alta M. Zullinger, late of Chambersburg, deceased.
Probably 4th Feb. 1916

I, Alta M. Zullinger of the Borough of Chambersburg, Franklin County,
Pennsylvania, being of sound mind, memory and understanding do hereby make and
publish this my last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all
former wills by me at anytime heretofore made.

I direct that my body be decently interred in a manner corresponding to my
estate and situation and life, and that all my just debts, funeral expenses and
the costs of settling my estate be first paid.

As to such estate as it hath pleased God to entrust me with, I dispose of the
same as follows:

Item, I give, donate and bequeath absolutely to my son, George S. Zullinger, or
his heirs, all my property, real, personal or of whatsoever nature or kind. I do
this for the reason that my husband has ample means and the above would be his
desire, that my son should receive all my property.

I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my brother, George B. Stouffer,
executor of this  my last will and testament.

In witness whereof, I, Alta M. Zullinger, the testatrix, have to this my will,
written on one sheet of paper set my hand and seal this third day of July, 1912.

Alta M. Zullinger (seal)

Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named Alta M. Zullinger, as
and for her last will and testament, in the presence of us, who have hereunto
subscribed our names at her request as witness thereto in the presence of the
said testatrix and of each other.

Ethel V. Patterson
Samuel F. Huber

Additional Comments:
Newspaper Article:

The Gettysburg Times, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
25 January 1916

Committed Suicide
Chambersburg Woman Hangs Herself in Philadelphia Asylum
Mrs. Alta Zullinger, forty seven years old, whose relatives live in
Chambersburg,  hanged herself to a bed post in the Friends' Asylum, at
Philadelphia, Monday. Mrs. Zullinger had been a patient in the asylum for four
years. She suffered from melancholia, according to physicians who attended her,
and was closely guarded day and night. A nurse looked in her room at 6:15
o'clock Monday morning and saw Mrs. Zullinger asleep. The nurse had occasion to
go to another part of the building and upon returning to Mrs. Zullinger's room
ten minutes later saw her hanging from the bed post. She had torn a strip of
muslin from a bed sheet, the physicians said, and after tying one end over the
post made a noose of the other end and put it around her neck. She dropped to
her knees and was strangled. The nurse sounded an alarm and an attendant who
responded but the noose and summoned several physicians. A spark of life
remained and doctors worked hard to revive Mrs. Zullinger, but she died while
they were attempting to induce respiration. The physicians did not relax their
efforts to save her until an hour or more after she had apparently stopped
breathing.