DeGroot, Albert, abt. 1856-1891

DEGROOT, DEGROAT

Posted By: Lydia Lucas - Volunteer (email)
Date: 2/8/2022 at 19:25:13

From the Alton Democrat, June 27, 1891:

Albert DeGroot, a young man residing south of Sioux Center, committed suicide last Friday, by blowing his brains out with a load of buckshot. He was a single man and had the farm rented. Becoming discouraged because the cut-worms took most of his crops, he sold the crops and his horses to a neighbor on Thursday. He told the neighbor that he was discouraged and did not know what to do. A friend up in Minnesota owed him several hundred dollars which he could not get, pressing debts worried him, and so he ended the struggle by filling a suicide’s grave.

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From the Ireton Clipper, June 25, 1891:

Albert Degroot, a farmer residing about three miles southeast of Sioux Center, was found dead in his house late on last Friday evening, having committed suicide by placing the muzzle of a shotgun in his mouth and blowing the back of his head off. He was a single man about 35 years of age. Financial trouble and despondency is supposed to have been the motive for the rash act.

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No additional information about him was readily located. He does not appear in the Sioux County Cemetery Index.