This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Beu,Sheel,Cummings,Bennets Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Fm.2ADI/343 Message Board Post: I am searching for more information on something that Christopher Durall posted from the Neosho County Record of Nov 17, 1876. Searching for more info on this piece: Thayer Head Light, Nov. 10: Yesterday morning, John BEN, aged 59 years, hanged himself at his farm three miles northeast of Thayer. The deceased left a large family of grown up children who are all respectable, industrious and orderly citizens. I believe this is may be my gg grandfather John Beu, b. 1817 in Germany. Some of the census have the family listed as Ben's. Believe he arrived in Neosho around 1870-72. Wonder if someone could see if any more was reported about this incident. Thanks, Doris