Unexpected

             There’s always something unexpected in life as well as in genealogy research.  I was looking up some newspaper articles today for my Reisner family in West Union, Iowa and ran across one for an uncle.  It was buried on page 2  in the Local and Other Items of the Feb 10, 1871 West Union Republic Gazette.  It started out saying “Suicide – We regret to announce a suicide in our midst.”  What a sad thing . . . I knew he had died young but didn’t realize it was because of unrequited love.

What’s really sad . . . this is the second known suicide in my paternal family line.  The other was a dad despondent over the death of his oldest son in 1945.