Tarrant County - Obituaries - Paul Rodh

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Fort Worth Daily Democrat
Fort Worth
July 8, 1876
No. 4


Suicide
An old German named Paul Rodh, committed suicide two weeks ago yesterday, three
miles and a half south of Fort Worth. He had been in this country a short time;
came here from Michigan or Iowa, with no family, with the expectation of one
grown up son. His little farm was paid for and he seemed in well to do
circumstances and had been speaking of selling out and going to Germany to spend
the balance of his life among the friends of his youth. His son is an
industrious young man, and was away from home most of the time, at work. The
last seen of the old man in life, was two weeks ago yesterday, when he was
noticed by some of his neighbors on top of a hay stack. The son found the foul,
festering remains of his fond father, with whom he had intended to pass that
day. Near by he found a grave that the old gentleman had dug by his own hand,
and in the house a letter from him, saying he had purchased $1 worth of
morphine, dug his own grave and would die by his own hand.