EMERSON, Samuel - Putnam

Note:  Unknown Source (tried two or three newspaper sources and couldn’t find the article but it is on FindAGrave and Susan Turpin Huber, quite knowledgeable of Putnam County put it there – here it is typed)

– Suicide – Samuel Emerson, an old resident of this vicinity was found on Sunday morning last, near what is called Seller’s Cave in the immediate vicinity of Greencastle, with his throat almost literally cut from ear to ear. The act had evidently been done the day previous as flies had blown the wound and deposited their issue.  Suffering much from the effects of dyspepsia, he had for some months past given evident that life was a burden and death preferable.  Having lived a life of celibacy, he leaves no immediate relatives to deplore their loss.  In all the walks of life he was an exemplary man; sober, honest, industrious and in offense. He was a member of the Christian Church.  Died 11 Sept 1864.  No indication on the FindAGrave entry that he was a War of 1812 soldier, but “an old resident” and passing in 1864 imagine this is him.  In the 1860 census he was 60 born in NY, living in Greencastle, a carpenter.  Cutting it close but still a strong possibility this is the 1812 soldier.