Ft. Wayne (IN) Daily Gazette, December 7, 1881, p. 4. An unknown man, a German about 66 years of age, committed suicide in the Catholic Cemetery in Seymour by shooting himself through the neck with a 22-caliber revolver. Deceased was a large man dressed in a black suit, black hat and heavy boots. In a memorandum book found on him, under the heading of Joseph H., was the statement that deceased tired of life, was unable to do anything and wanted to die on sacred soil, claiming to be a devout Catholic, saying that he had two sons in America.