Porter,(as he liked to be called), was the s/o Carrie Vird Etherton and George Edward Schooler. He was one of 7 children, 2 boys and 5 girls. He had a fight with his girl friend and she broke up with him. Porter drank mercury and suffered for two weeks, begging his mother to save him. He broke her heart. He is buried next to her.
My Grandmother, his sister Ruth, finally told me this in about 1967. Before that, she would only say he was her brother and he was deceased. She had a large picture, of him, in a old fashioned bubble glass frame, that always hung in her bedroom. She dearly loved her baby brother. Ironically, he was 26 when he died as was her own son, James Edward Hammons, when he also committed suicide.
They are all gone now. I hope they are together and at peace in Heaven.
My Grandmother, his sister Ruth, finally told me this in about 1967. Before that, she would only say he was her brother and he was deceased. She had a large picture, of him, in a old fashioned bubble glass frame, that always hung in her bedroom. She dearly loved her baby brother. Ironically, he was 26 when he died as was her own son, James Edward Hammons, when he also committed suicide.
They are all gone now. I hope they are together and at peace in Heaven.
Porter,(as he liked to be called), was the s/o Carrie Vird Etherton and George Edward Schooler. He was one of 7 children, 2 boys and 5 girls. He had a fight with his girl friend and she broke up with him. Porter drank mercury and suffered for two weeks, begging his mother to save him. He broke her heart. He is buried next to her.
My Grandmother, his sister Ruth, finally told me this in about 1967. Before that, she would only say he was her brother and he was deceased. She had a large picture, of him, in a old fashioned bubble glass frame, that always hung in her bedroom. She dearly loved her baby brother. Ironically, he was 26 when he died as was her own son, James Edward Hammons, when he also committed suicide.
They are all gone now. I hope they are together and at peace in Heaven.
My Grandmother, his sister Ruth, finally told me this in about 1967. Before that, she would only say he was her brother and he was deceased. She had a large picture, of him, in a old fashioned bubble glass frame, that always hung in her bedroom. She dearly loved her baby brother. Ironically, he was 26 when he died as was her own son, James Edward Hammons, when he also committed suicide.
They are all gone now. I hope they are together and at peace in Heaven.
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