BLIND, Ellen Messner - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Ellen Blind committed suicide by hanging at Pine Village on last Sunday night. She had gone to bed with her husband at the usual hour and during the night he awoke and found that she was not in bed.  He arose and

began searching the house for her, eventually finding her body hanging from a rafter in the summer kitchen.  She had secured a clothes line, tying one end around a rafter and slipping her head through a noose at

the other end.  She stood on a chair while making these arrangements and then, kicking the chair from under her, swung into eternity.  The body was cold when found and had probably been hanging several hours.  No

cause is assigned for the deed.  The family was a happy one and if the unfortunate woman had any troubles she never told them.  Since her death the fact is recalled that she made several unsuccesful attempts to get

large doses of morphine from Dr. Fenton who had been treating her, which indicates that the suicide was premeditated.  The unfortunate woman was the wife of Marcelles Blind, a painter and a daughter of Daniel Messner, a dry goods dealer of Oxford.  Besides her husband, she left two sons, aged 6 and 9 years respectively.  She was about 30 years of age.