Children:
Oliver Kiefer
Catharine May Kiefer
Joseph W. Kiefer
Tillie Bella Kiefer
Frank Augusta Kiefer
John Peter Kiefer
Laura Mae Kiefer
Cleveland Eichman Kiefer
Mabel Rosanna Kiefer
Raymond Harrison Kiefer
Sibling(s):
Rosanna Elizabeth Kiefer
Joseph T. Kiefer
William C. Kiefer
Francis L. Kiefer
Emma Dorothy Kiefer
Freeman Kiefer
Peter Augustus Kiefer
Flora Belle Kiefer
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Notes:
Friday, June 28, 1895
His grief unendurable because of his wife's death, wealthy Farmer Commits
Suicide.
Samuel Kieffer, a well-to-do farmer, residing in Bucks County,
near Kintnersville, committed suicide Wednesday afternoon by hanging himself in
his barn. Kieffer's wife died last January and since that time, he had been
despondent. During the past week, he had been in the habit of taking a short
sleep in his barn after dinner. Because of that fact several of his children
had no suspicion that anything was wrong, when he went to the barn on
Wednesday, after having told the little ones to pick cherries.
At 3 o'clock, their father having failed to return from the barn, the children
started a search for him, when one of the sons, 11 years of age, found the
lifeless body suspended from a rafter. Help was called and the body was cut
down, but life had flown. The man had evidently been dead some time.
The deceased was 49 years old. His wife, was a daughter of William Hahn, of
Williams Township. Mr. Kieffer leaves eight children, the youngest only
about 6 years of age. |
