Hershey - Cloyd Gray
Source: Seymour
Tribune Tues 10 Nov 1908 p 4
Boston, Nov 10 – Cloyd
Gray Hershey, aged 25 years of Logansport, Ind a graduate of Depauw University
and a junior in the Boston University School of Theology committed suicide by
shooting himself through the brain at his room at the school. The cause of the
suicide in not known.
Source: Palladium-Item
Richmond, Ind Tues 10 Nov 1908 p 8
Logansport, Ind Nov 10
– The news that the death of Cloyd Hershey was by his own hand did not reach
his mother in this city until after the remains had been brought from Boston,
Mass. He had been attenting a theological seminary there. His mother keeps a
boarding house in Logansport and has been mainting her son in Boston, where he
studied for some time. A few days ago he wrote his mother indicating
despondency and saying he must have money to come home. The money was sent him
and the letter reached his address the day following his death.
Source: Muncie Star
Press Wed 11 Nov 1908 p 6
Logansport, Ind Nov 10
– The body of Cloyd Hershey, who committed suicide in Boston last Friday night
was brought to this city Monday afternoon and the funeral was held today.
Hershey was a student in the Boston Theological College and during the last
summer had been pastor of the Hanover Center Church. Overstudy unbalanced the young man’s mind and
while in a fit of insanity he sent a bullet crashing through his brain. Several
days previously he had writte his mother, Mrs. Lottie Hershey of this city a
letter in which he complained of racking pains in his head and homesickness.
The letter was a rambling missive and his mother, fearing the youth’s mind was
affected, immediately sent him a letter, inclosing money with which to buy a
ticket and come home. The letter arrived the day following the shooting.
Hershey was a devout Christian and his ambition was to become a great preacher. - typed by kbz