This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Armstrong Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mAB.2ACE/2656 Message Board Post: SUICIDE NEAR CROFTON Jack Armstrong a Well to do Farmer Takes His Life by Hanging Crofton, Ky., June 2. (Special to The Bee)--Mr. Jack ARMSTRONG, a wel do do farmer living about two miles west of this place, committed suicide yesterday afternoon by hanging himself in his barn. About one o'clock he left the house having instructed his son to plow in the field and his family thought he had gone to the house of his son-in-law just across the farm. Mr. ARMSTRONG's daughter had been out about the farm and returning about 5:30 came by the barn and discovered the horrible sight of her father's body hanging from a beam. Mr. ARMSTRONG has been in very bad health and very despondent and this is thought to be the cause of his suicide. He leaves a large family and many relatives to mourn his loss. (Source: Earlington Bee, Thur., June 3, 1897)