Meehing, Son c1891 – 1905

MEEHING

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 3/25/2019 at 15:55:46

Source: Decorah Republican Oct. 26, 1905 P6 C2

SUICIDE IN FLOYD COUNTY.
A Farmer Lad Found Dead by His Mother’s Grave in Ulster Township.
Charles City, Iowa, Oct. 20—A 14-year old son of Charles Meehing, a wealthy farmer of Ulster township, was found dead with a gunshot wound on the forehead on his mother’s grave four miles west of Rockford.
He went hunting Thursday, but did not return and search was made with the above results.
It is supposed that he committed suicide on account of despondency. His mother died years ago.