This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Doenitz Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACE/2299 Message Board Post: Source - St Point Journal dtd 30 Jan 1909 Suicides near Seattle - Wife of Alvin Doenitz, formerly of this city, shoots herself. A clipping from Seattle paper dated Jan 16, has been received, in which there appear's a full size cut of Mr and Mrs Alvin L Doenitz mad from a photograph evidently taken some time ago while they were enjoying camp life somewhere in the vicinity. The cut is published in connection with a short article on the death of Mrs Doenitz. Mr Doenitz committed suicide at Elliott station, near Renton, a village near Seattle, but owing to a rumor that the bullet wound in her head did not correspond to the size of the weapon she was alleged to have used, the funeral service was halted to permit an investigation by the deputy sheriff. The deputy reported that he learned from neighbors that Mrs Doenitz and her husband quarreled on the day she shot herself, because she had run a small grocery bill. As a culmination, he told her to leave and gave her the 50 cents to pay her car fare to Seattle. The nieghbors are reported to have said that Doenitz then left for Renton and got drunk. She returned that night, packed her trunk and stepped out, saying she was going to leave, but shot herself before she got off the porch. The report of the deputy shows conclusively that she came to her death by her own hand. Alvin Doenitz spent his boyhood in St Point and was at one time engaged with his father in running a beer agency here. He has been located in the west for several years, while his family now resides in Fond du Lac. His wife was a Seattle girl. +++++ On-line sources to check: Stevens Point Area Obituary Index http://library.uwsp.edu/depts/archives/obits/osearch.htm Cemetery records at: http://library.uwsp.edu/depts/archives/Cemetery/ Census records at: http://library.uwsp.edu/depts/archives/Census/ Portage County Historical Society http://www.pchswi.org/index.htm Portage County Courthouse: http://www.co.portage.wi.us/ UW-St Point Archives http://library.uwsp.edu/depts/gen/genealog.htm#ARCHIVES Where to write http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiportag/links/portadd.htm Recent obits can be obtained from WI Newpapers On-line - http://www.wisinfo.com/ I am not related to nor have any additional information on these surnames. If there is a question of error in this transcription, please consult the original documents. R/S MAK http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiportag