OBIT: Nevada MARTZ, 1932, Wellersburg, Somerset County, PA

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NEVADA MARTZ

Wellersburg Woman Committed Suicide

  Mrs. Nevada Martz, 20, wife of Lloyd Martz, of Wellersburg, committed suicide 
by hanging at her home, Tuesday night.  The young matron had been despondent for 
some time, and had threatened self-destruction on several occasions.
  Craig Shaffer and Cecil Portor, residents of Wellersburg, passed the Martz 
home a short time before the tragedy.  Mrs. Martz called to them that she was 
about to end her life.  At first they thought it was merely an idle threat, but 
later they decided to return to the Martz home, where they found the body 
suspended from the ceiling.
  Mrs. Martz, it appears, had fashioned a noose in a rope which had been used to 
suspend a swing for her 11-months' old daughter, before attaching it to a hook 
in the ceiling of the room and leaping from the chair.  Her feet were within an 
inch of the floor when the body was discovered.
  Coronor Emily Fluck was notified by telephone of the tragedy, and accompanied 
by a member of the local State Police, motored to Wellersburg, Tuesday night.  
After concluding a thorough investigation, the coronor announced that an inquest 
would not be necessary.
  Mrs. Martz' husband did not learn of the suicide until an hour after the 
tragic event.
  In addition to her husband and daughter, Mrs. Martz is survived by her 
parents, who reside in Cumberland.

Meyersdale Republican, July 7, 1932