An appropriate discourse was delivered in the German and English language by the Rev. Hinkel, selected by the deceased from Timothy Chapter 4 verses 8 and 9. In Heaven a crown is waiting for me which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on that great day of his return. And not just to me, but to all those whose lives show that they are eagerly looking forward to his coming back again. Lived near Ziontown, committed suicide Monday afternoon on a neighbor's farm by hanging himself to a tree. He was found by two men passing through the field.
Family trouble is thought to have caused the rash act.
He leaves a wife and three children. Solomon Swinehart was born in Perry County, Ohio, Nov. 8, 1845. He was the sixth of a family of eleven children, only two of which are still living. This union was blessed with eleven children, six sons and five daughters, all of whom are living. Perry Co. Tp., Franklin Co, near Columbus, where they have since resided.