Dr. Linder James Forney (1900)
FORNEY, MARDIS, STILES
Posted By: Kent Transier (email)
Date: 4/15/2012 at 15:11:46
Winterset Madisonian
January 11, 1900
Page 5, Column 2Former Winterset Man Suicides
Cherokee, Kan., Jan 10 - Dr. L. J. Forney, a prominent physician, was found dead in his office this morning. On a table were bottles of various poisons and a note saying: "I had rather leap into the unknown than endure what I know." Forney came here with his family from Des Moines, Iowa twelve years ago. he suffered from Inflammatory rheumatism - Associated Press Report
Dr. Forney lived several years in St. Charles, and from 1876 to about 1880 or 1881, in Winterset, at both places engaged in the practice of his profession. Since that time he moved about considerably. He was in some distant degree related to T. F. Mardis, and his wife was a sister of Capt. Stiles.
_________________Transcriber's note: Burial at the Cherokee Cemetery, Cherokee, Crawford, Kansas
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