Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Thomas CHAPIN

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Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, <rmontgomery@cishome.com> April 2008

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SAD--SUICIDE.--Thomas Chapin, eldest son of Mr. T. P. Chapin, of Union,
committed suicide on Sunday morning last, by shooting himself, in his room,
with a pistol. The ball striking just below his heart passed nearly through
his body and was extracted from the backside where it was imbedded just
beneath the skin. The shooting was done about eight o'clock Sunday morning
and he lived until about noon Monday. He was a little more than twenty-one
years of age, and possessed of usually industrious and temperate habits,
and no rational cause is assigned for the rash act. He had been afflicted
with some physical disease which often brought on fits of mental
despondency, and had often expressed himsel to his mother that he was tired
of life.

His tragic death brings deep sorrow upon his parents and friends.

February 26, 1873, Evansville Review, evansville, WI.