BRUCE, Brownlow

Source: Lafayette Journal and Courier 28 Nov 1934 (Wed) p 1

Ambia, Nov 28 – Despondent over poor health, Brownlow B. Bruce 71, a laborer, hung himself this morning, his body being found suspended from a rope on a small walnut tree in the backyard of his home here by Charles Fawbush and Donald Snyder, neighbors, at 7:30 o’clock. He arose about 4 o’clock, leaving his wife, who was not feeling well in bed. After starting a fire in the kitchen range, he obtained a rope and a small box, fastening a noose about his neck and attaching the other end to a limb of the tree. Then he stepped off of the box and was strangled. The widow survives with four children: George, Ernest and Arthur Bruce of Ambia; and Mrs. Charles Wells, Brookston.

Note: He lived in Fountain County for awhile, having at least two of the above children there.