Here is another article re. the suicide of Robert Sickles/Sickels, a brother of my great-grandmother. The Clouse mentioned in the article was a brother of one of my great-grandfathers. >From 'The Jerseyman", Morristown, NJ, Friday, June 26, 1908 "Robert F. Sickels of Roxbury Township, residing near the canal between Port Morris and Hopatcong, committed suicide on Friday night by shooting himself. Sickels was for years a railroad conductor. Besides a wife, he leaves four married children. His son-in-law, James H. Van Blarcom, was killed in the Clouse House about two years ago by Henry Stephens as a result of a quarrel between Sickels and Stephens. It is said that Sickels had been drinking heavily of late." I have several lengthy articles, from "The Jerseyman" and "The New York Times" about the shooting of Robert Sickles's son-in-law, husband of his daughter Elizabeth. James Van Blarcom and his family had just arrived in Port Morris for a visit when a quarrel between Henry or Harry Stevens (sic) and Charles Sickles (one of the explosion victims in a recent posting) broke out at the George Clouse home, near the Sickles residence. Stevens was beating Charles Sickles and George Clouse went to get the Sickles family, and when all arrived, Stevens turned on Robert Sickles. Van Blarcom intervened, and was shot dead by Stevens, who was later sentenced to 25 years hard labor in Trenton. I think it was also posted recently, but in case it hasn't been, Jesse Sickles, a brother of Robert, drowned in the Morris Canal a few years later, while walking home along the towpath from visiting Robert Sickles's widow in Port Morris. Shirley in Ohio, but from NJ