Perkins Township / Named for his uncle Solon
Sandusky Daily Register June 21, 1890: "SUICIDE. / S. D. Lindsley Committs (sic) Suicide at His Home in Perkins. //
Mr. Solon Dell Lindsley, son of the late Gen. W. D. Lindsley, committed suicide at his home in Perkins township yesterday morning at 5 o'clock. Despondency attributed to the settlement of his father's estate is the supposed cause of his act.
Shortly before 5 o'clock yesterday morning Mr. Lindsley arose and dressed in his working clothes as usual and remarked to his wife: "Helen, I have brought you to beggary." Mrs. Lindsley replied: "No, you haven't, it's not as bad as you think."
Mr. Lindsley stepped into the sitting room and while his wife remained in bed she heard a shot fired and heard the body fall. The family and neighbors were aroused but nothing could be done to save the man for the bullet had completed its work and he breathed about five minutes, but was unconscious, and expired.
Coroner Ehrhart was notified and an examination revealed that the bullet had entered the forehead and passed through the head and lodged in the back part where it was traced by a protrusion under the scalp. The weapon used was a 44 calibre American bulldog revolver. Mr. Lindsley was executor of his father's estate and worry about financial difficulties seemed to trouble his mind. He anticipated that affairs were in a very bad condition, but they were not nearly so bad as he thought. His neighbors had for several weeks noticed peculiarities about him and thought that his mind was being impaired by business complications, but no one had supposed the aberration would result so fatally.
Mr. Lindsley was the only son of the late Gen. W. D. Lindsley and was 52 years of age. He was a brother of Mrs. Alice Wheeler of this city, the only daughter of the family, and a brother-in-law of Hon. John M. Lemmon of Clyde. Deceased leaves a wife and a family of eight children, three of whom are married. He was born and reared in Perkins, where he had been a lifelong resident, and died in the same house in which he was born. "Dell" Lindsley, the name by which he was best known, was a good citizen, a man of generous heart and strongly devoted to his family. He was well known and respected in his community and this city, where many friends will regret the sad circumstance of his death."
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*Daughter May Helen Lindsley Hays, born 01 May 1883, has not yet been located*
Sandusky Daily Register June 21, 1890: "SUICIDE. / S. D. Lindsley Committs (sic) Suicide at His Home in Perkins. //
Mr. Solon Dell Lindsley, son of the late Gen. W. D. Lindsley, committed suicide at his home in Perkins township yesterday morning at 5 o'clock. Despondency attributed to the settlement of his father's estate is the supposed cause of his act.
Shortly before 5 o'clock yesterday morning Mr. Lindsley arose and dressed in his working clothes as usual and remarked to his wife: "Helen, I have brought you to beggary." Mrs. Lindsley replied: "No, you haven't, it's not as bad as you think."
Mr. Lindsley stepped into the sitting room and while his wife remained in bed she heard a shot fired and heard the body fall. The family and neighbors were aroused but nothing could be done to save the man for the bullet had completed its work and he breathed about five minutes, but was unconscious, and expired.
Coroner Ehrhart was notified and an examination revealed that the bullet had entered the forehead and passed through the head and lodged in the back part where it was traced by a protrusion under the scalp. The weapon used was a 44 calibre American bulldog revolver. Mr. Lindsley was executor of his father's estate and worry about financial difficulties seemed to trouble his mind. He anticipated that affairs were in a very bad condition, but they were not nearly so bad as he thought. His neighbors had for several weeks noticed peculiarities about him and thought that his mind was being impaired by business complications, but no one had supposed the aberration would result so fatally.
Mr. Lindsley was the only son of the late Gen. W. D. Lindsley and was 52 years of age. He was a brother of Mrs. Alice Wheeler of this city, the only daughter of the family, and a brother-in-law of Hon. John M. Lemmon of Clyde. Deceased leaves a wife and a family of eight children, three of whom are married. He was born and reared in Perkins, where he had been a lifelong resident, and died in the same house in which he was born. "Dell" Lindsley, the name by which he was best known, was a good citizen, a man of generous heart and strongly devoted to his family. He was well known and respected in his community and this city, where many friends will regret the sad circumstance of his death."
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*Daughter May Helen Lindsley Hays, born 01 May 1883, has not yet been located*
Perkins Township / Named for his uncle Solon
Sandusky Daily Register June 21, 1890: "SUICIDE. / S. D. Lindsley Committs (sic) Suicide at His Home in Perkins. //
Mr. Solon Dell Lindsley, son of the late Gen. W. D. Lindsley, committed suicide at his home in Perkins township yesterday morning at 5 o'clock. Despondency attributed to the settlement of his father's estate is the supposed cause of his act.
Shortly before 5 o'clock yesterday morning Mr. Lindsley arose and dressed in his working clothes as usual and remarked to his wife: "Helen, I have brought you to beggary." Mrs. Lindsley replied: "No, you haven't, it's not as bad as you think."
Mr. Lindsley stepped into the sitting room and while his wife remained in bed she heard a shot fired and heard the body fall. The family and neighbors were aroused but nothing could be done to save the man for the bullet had completed its work and he breathed about five minutes, but was unconscious, and expired.
Coroner Ehrhart was notified and an examination revealed that the bullet had entered the forehead and passed through the head and lodged in the back part where it was traced by a protrusion under the scalp. The weapon used was a 44 calibre American bulldog revolver. Mr. Lindsley was executor of his father's estate and worry about financial difficulties seemed to trouble his mind. He anticipated that affairs were in a very bad condition, but they were not nearly so bad as he thought. His neighbors had for several weeks noticed peculiarities about him and thought that his mind was being impaired by business complications, but no one had supposed the aberration would result so fatally.
Mr. Lindsley was the only son of the late Gen. W. D. Lindsley and was 52 years of age. He was a brother of Mrs. Alice Wheeler of this city, the only daughter of the family, and a brother-in-law of Hon. John M. Lemmon of Clyde. Deceased leaves a wife and a family of eight children, three of whom are married. He was born and reared in Perkins, where he had been a lifelong resident, and died in the same house in which he was born. "Dell" Lindsley, the name by which he was best known, was a good citizen, a man of generous heart and strongly devoted to his family. He was well known and respected in his community and this city, where many friends will regret the sad circumstance of his death."
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*Daughter May Helen Lindsley Hays, born 01 May 1883, has not yet been located*
Sandusky Daily Register June 21, 1890: "SUICIDE. / S. D. Lindsley Committs (sic) Suicide at His Home in Perkins. //
Mr. Solon Dell Lindsley, son of the late Gen. W. D. Lindsley, committed suicide at his home in Perkins township yesterday morning at 5 o'clock. Despondency attributed to the settlement of his father's estate is the supposed cause of his act.
Shortly before 5 o'clock yesterday morning Mr. Lindsley arose and dressed in his working clothes as usual and remarked to his wife: "Helen, I have brought you to beggary." Mrs. Lindsley replied: "No, you haven't, it's not as bad as you think."
Mr. Lindsley stepped into the sitting room and while his wife remained in bed she heard a shot fired and heard the body fall. The family and neighbors were aroused but nothing could be done to save the man for the bullet had completed its work and he breathed about five minutes, but was unconscious, and expired.
Coroner Ehrhart was notified and an examination revealed that the bullet had entered the forehead and passed through the head and lodged in the back part where it was traced by a protrusion under the scalp. The weapon used was a 44 calibre American bulldog revolver. Mr. Lindsley was executor of his father's estate and worry about financial difficulties seemed to trouble his mind. He anticipated that affairs were in a very bad condition, but they were not nearly so bad as he thought. His neighbors had for several weeks noticed peculiarities about him and thought that his mind was being impaired by business complications, but no one had supposed the aberration would result so fatally.
Mr. Lindsley was the only son of the late Gen. W. D. Lindsley and was 52 years of age. He was a brother of Mrs. Alice Wheeler of this city, the only daughter of the family, and a brother-in-law of Hon. John M. Lemmon of Clyde. Deceased leaves a wife and a family of eight children, three of whom are married. He was born and reared in Perkins, where he had been a lifelong resident, and died in the same house in which he was born. "Dell" Lindsley, the name by which he was best known, was a good citizen, a man of generous heart and strongly devoted to his family. He was well known and respected in his community and this city, where many friends will regret the sad circumstance of his death."
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*Daughter May Helen Lindsley Hays, born 01 May 1883, has not yet been located*
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