The Pike County Journal Zebulon, Ga., Tuesday, April 15, 1890 M.E. Strickland, living near Concord, committed suicide last week by cutting his throat with a knife. He was found in a fodder loft with his head held back and a knife in his hand. He had been missing for several hours previous to being found, and his family had no intimation, so far as we have heard, that he contemplated suicide. It is supposed that financial trouble was at the bottom of the rash act. The deceased leaves a wife and six children, the eldest of which is about eleven years old. (Transcribed 10/1/02 Lynn Cunningham) Note: There is a M.E. Strickland buried at Hebron Cemetery, Concord, Ga., but the death date is off by one year – M.E. Strickland, b. 1848, d. 1889