Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1912 — Despondent Woman Hangs Herself. [ARTICLE]

Despondent Woman Hangs Herself.

Huntington, Inch., March 8. Despondent over the treatment accorded her by Ross Miller, her son-in-law, to whose motherless children she acted as a mother, despite most trying conditions in her home, Mrs. Samuel Updike, of Lancaster township, hanged herself in the barn- She was found by her grandson, Carl Miller, aged fourteen, who had been sent by Mr. Updike to investigate the long stay of his grandmother. Mr. Updike has been a helpless cripple forty years from locomotor ataxia.