Posted "as found" on the web. ///Steve Looney/// ================================================================ Pocahontas Star-Herald extracts Dec 23 1910 Erasmus Looney, an aged and well known citizen of the county residing near Oconee, committed suicide last Thursday afternoon by hanging himself to a rafter in his barn. Despondency on the account of ill health and the loss of his wife, whose death occurred about three years ago, is supposed to be the cause of his rash act.