Sarah Yapp 1841 - 1902

YAPP

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Date: 10/3/2022 at 01:10:30

Sioux Valley News
20 November 1902

Mrs. Samuel Yapp, wife of a farmer near Pierson, committed suicide early Monday morning by throwing herself in a pond adjoining the barn yard while her husband was engaged in milking. The cause is unknown.

The Gazette (Cedar Rapids)
20 November 1902

Mrs. Samuel Yapp, wife of a farmer near Pierson, suicided by jumping into a pond near her home. Despondency the cause.

Sioux City Journal
18 November 1902

JUMPED INTO A POND.

Suicide of Mrs. Samuel Yapp, Who Lived Near Pearson.

Pierson, Ia., Nov. 17. Special: Mrs. Samuel Yapp, wife of a farmer near town, committed suicide early this morning by throwing herself in a pond adjoining the barn yard while her husband was engaged in milking. The cause is unknown.

Sioux Valley News
Correctionville, Iowa
20 November 1902

Mrs. Sarah Yapp Drowns Herself in a Pond Near Her Home

Mrs. Sarah Yapp, wife of Samuel Yapp, living about one and one fourth miles east of Pierson drowned herself early Monday morning in a pond near their house. She got up in the morning and started her morning work and Mr. Yapp had gone out to milk. When he came in with the milk he called to her, asking if she was ready to strain it, and receiving no reply called again and then receiving no answer searched the house for her and not finding her, and thinking it strange she should not be about the house, went out toward a pond in the pasture a few rods from the house where he discovered her in the pond in about a foot of water. When he got her out she not quite dead but died before help could be secured. It is thought she was partially demented Mr. Yapp having noticed she had acted peculiar about ten days. A letter was found that she had written stating that she had no blame for anyone for her act being responsible for it herself. She leaves a husband and four children, Mrs. Albert Leigh living in Michigan, Mrs. Geo. Creekmur living near Washta and Mrs. Emma Walters and Wm. Yapp living here. No reason are learned of any conditions existing that might induce her to commit her rash act.