Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa
Thursday, January l, l903

The following dispatch in last Thursday's Chicago Record-Herald tells of the suicide of the ten-year-old son of ELDER H.A. LEMON, who was at one time Pastor of the Christian Church in this city.

Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 24 -- ADELBERT LEMON, the ten-year-old son of REV. H.A. LEMON, State Evangelist for the Christian Church, shot himself this afternoon and died tonight. The boy was conscious several hours after the shooting and said in effect that the act was deliberate and premiditated. He told the doctors he had bought Christmas presents, had had a good time and wanted to die. REV. LEMON is prominent in church work and his son had everything he could wish for.

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February 26, 2003