Elbridge Dwight "Dwight" Flickinger (1871-1931)

FLICKINGER, ALLYN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 9/26/2021 at 20:47:25

From Nevada Evening Journal July 29 1931 (page 1)

PIONEER MAXWELL MAN A SUICIDE

DWIGHT FLICKINGER TOOK OWN LIFE BY SHOOTING AND HANGING

Maxwell, July 29--E. Dwight Flickinger, aged about 60, long-time resident of Indian Creek township, took his own life by shooting and hanging, at the home in Maxwell Tuesday.

Despondency appear to have been the cause of the rash act.

Mrs. Flickinger had been spending the day in the country and in the afternoon Mr. Flickinger asked a neighbor girl, Helen Rupp, to drive out in the country after the wife.

Upon their arrival at the Flickinger home Mrs. Flickinger went into the house, but failing to find the husband entered the attic of the home, where she found the lifeless body of her husband, with a bullet wound in his head, suspended by a rope from a rafter of the roof.

Mr. Flickinger had lived in the community practically all of his life, having been a prominent farmer in the Elwell neighborhood for many years.

He leaves besides the wife, a son Claire and daughter Ruth, both living in Des Moines, and two brothers. The brothers are Fred S. Flickinger of Nevada and Lynn Flickinger of Carroll.