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William Marion Perry

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William Marion Perry

Birth
Wells County, Indiana, USA
Death
20 Mar 1930 (aged 67)
Montpelier, Blackford County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Montpelier, Blackford County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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The Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Indiana, Friday, March 21, 1930, page 33

Farmer Hangs Self In Barn
Bluffton, Ind., March 21.- William Thoms, coroner, who was called late Thursday (20 March 1930) to investigate the death of William Perry, age sixty-two, Montpelier, who hung himself in a barn on his farm in Chester Township, Wells County, reported that his verdict would be suicide. Perry, a retired farmer, had gone to his barn shortly after noon. He took a small rope from a hay fork and mounted a ladder. He tied one end of the rope to the rafter in the barn and the other about his neck and stepped off the ladder.
The Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Indiana, Friday, March 21, 1930, page 33

Farmer Hangs Self In Barn
Bluffton, Ind., March 21.- William Thoms, coroner, who was called late Thursday (20 March 1930) to investigate the death of William Perry, age sixty-two, Montpelier, who hung himself in a barn on his farm in Chester Township, Wells County, reported that his verdict would be suicide. Perry, a retired farmer, had gone to his barn shortly after noon. He took a small rope from a hay fork and mounted a ladder. He tied one end of the rope to the rafter in the barn and the other about his neck and stepped off the ladder.


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