OBIT: Andrew McKENZIE, 1932, Greenville Twp., Somerset County, PA

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ANDREW McKENZIE

Andrew McKenzie, Demented Young Man Living in Greenville Township Shoots Himself

  Last Saturday morning Andrew McKenzie, a young man from near Pocahontas, 
committed suicide by shooting himself with a 12-guage shotgun.  The young man 
had suffered from a mental derangement for some time and had spent five months 
in the County Hospital and returned to his home recently, much improved.  Last 
week his brother was taken to the county institution for similar treatment.  
This seemed to worry Andrew very much.  He had stated that he would kill himself 
rather than go back to the hospital for the insane.   He apparently was in 
mortal fear of being taken back to the hospital, and on Saturday morning he took 
a shotgun and ended his worries.  Coroner Emma Fluke reported it a case of 
suicide.
  He loaded the gun with a pumpkin bullet and, placing the butt of the gun on 
the ground and the muzzle under his chin, he stooped over and pulled the 
trigger.
  He was aged 27 years, 1 month and 12 days.
  He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James McKenzie, and eight brothers 
and sisters, namely:  Mrs. Rebecca Bolden, Grantsville, Md.; Robert McKenzie, 
Greenville Twp.; Elmer, Mt. Savage, Md.; Augustus, Glencoe; Wilbur, Greenville 
Twp.; Herbert, Akron, O.; James, Cleveland, O.; Mrs. Mary Blank, Mt. Savage, 
Md.; Mrs. Viola Zerbuck, Akron, O.
  Funeral services were held in the Pocahontas Catholic Church on Monday morning 
at 10 o'clock, followed by burial in the Loraditch Cemetery, in charge of 
Undertaker J. F. Reich.

Meyersdale Republican, April 28, 1932