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Grant + Helen Merceida GUSHING. Helen was born on 9 Dec 1918 in Kansas; died on 24 Jul 1993 in Hershey, Lincoln Co, NE; was buried in Belle Plaine Cemetery - Sumner County. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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James + Gladys G. GRANT. Gladys was born in 1894; died on 5 Jun 1949; was buried in Belle Plaine Cemetery - Sumner County. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Winfield Daily Free Press
Winfield, Kansas
Saturday, January 7, 1922
Page 5

Farmer Commits Suicide

Suffered Nervous Breakdown Last Year.

Ed Barner, 55 years old, farmer, Belle Plaine committed suicide by sho
oting himself at 10 o'clock Friday morning in the barn on his farm.

Barner, who suffered a nervous breakdown three months ago, told his wi
fe he was going hunting when he left the house. Mrs. Barner heard th
e report of double barreled shotgun shortly afterwards. She thought no
thing of it.

Mrs. Barner became worried when her husband failed to show up for dinn
er. She summoned a farm hand, who had been employed during the mornin
g sawing wood on an adjoining farm, occupied by a son of Mr. and Mrs
. Barner.

Half of Barner's face and the top of his head had been blown off by th
e charge, which entered below the chin. Death must have been instantan
eous, Dr. L.H. Sarchet, coroner of Sumner county, believed.

Barner's illness which was said to have prompted him to kill himself
, was a recurrence of a nervous disease suffered 12 years ago, leavin
g him bereft of full mental faculties and at times he wandered about a
imlessly, it was said. He had been melancholy lately.

Barner was the owner of five 160-acre farms in Sumner county, two of w
hich were tenanted by his sons. He was a brother of Link Barner, forme
county commissioner of Sumner county.

A verdict of "death by his own hands" was decided by a jury at an inqu
est conducted by Coroner Sarchet. - Eagle.

The deceased man is a brother of C.G. Barner of this city, and has vis
ited here. He was well to do and must have been suffering from nervou
s breakdown when he took his life.
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Edward + Mary Zimmerman "Mollie" LESTER. Mary was born on 27 Jul 1869 in Kentucky; died on 7 Mar 1959 in Belle Plaine, Sumner Co, KS; was buried in Belle Plaine Cemetery - Sumner County. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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