Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1901 — Name of Damn Is Fatal. [ARTICLE]

Name of Damn Is Fatal.

Because she was obliged to go through life weighted with an undesirable name Martha A. Damn of East Bane, near Rochester, N. Y., committed suicide. She drowned herself in the cistern at her home. Ever since her marriage her children had been subjected to ridicule. Mrs. Damn was of a sensitive nature. Day after day her children came home from school in tears as the result of teasing by thoughtless companions. Friday Mrs. Damn said she would stand it no'longer and she disappeared. A search Sunday revealed her lifeless body.