This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0dB.2ACI/4205 Message Board Post: Find Farmer Dead In Barn Tuesday[born in Rockland twp] Take Own Life By Hanging While Wife and Son Are Away From Home. Lemuel R. Snyder, aged 55, of North Beaver township,ended his lfe Tuesday afternoon, by hanging himself from the rafters of a small barn on their farm, durilng the absence of the other members of his family. Mr. Snyder had been in poor health for the past year and was said to have become despondent. Mrs. Snyder and son Paul had come to New Castle about noon Tuesday to do some shopping and on their return abut 3 o'clock found a note on the kitchen table, stating that they would find his body in the barn. They began a search and found him hanging from the rafters. Courner Orville Potter was notified and went to the scene, where he cut the body down. Mr. Snyder had been a resident of Mahoning township for the past 25 yers. He had done a considerable amount of work during that time as a tool dresser in the oil fields. Surviving are, his wife, Edith May Snyder , the following daughters: Mrs. Hildred Pape, Hillsville, Mrs. Opal Beard,North Beaver township and Mrs. Iva Penwell, of Bessemer, two sons, Alvin , Mahoning township, and Paul, at home,three brothers, John, of Franklin, Alex, of Kennerdell, Pa. , and Simeon, of Long Beach Cal., the following sisters: Mrs. Lizzie Taylor, Mrs. Anna Tytus, of Kennerdell, Mrs. Mrs. Alice McKim, of Franklin, Mrs. Minnie Winaus, of Meadville, Mrs. Vinnie Seaton , of Cleveland,O., and Mrs. Ella Smiley, of Erie and eleven grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at the Bessemer Presbyterian Church Thursday afternoon at 2:30 with Rev. W. Joseph Engle, the pastor in charge and interment will be made in Castle View Burial Park. Source: New Castle News-New Castle , Lawrence Co. Pa 11 Nov 1936