Palmetto, August 18. Miss Emma Cleckler committed suicide in this county near this place yesterday. The balance of the family had gone to camp meeting. Daring their absence she hung herself. Nothing positive is known as to the cause of this rash act. Miss Cleckler was twenty-five years old and belonged to one of the best families in the county. It is said that she attempted suicide once before by tying her feet together and rolling into a fish pond.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Fairburn, Ga , August 18. The Cleckler family, well known and in good circumstances, live about three miles from Fairburn. Yesterday the whole family, with the exception of a daughter, Miss Emma Cleckler, left home to attend a camp-meeting. After the rest of the family had gone and the house was quiet, the young lady deliberately proceeded to the work of self destruction.
She went into the yard and secured a clothes line, which she took with her to a barn near by. She mounted to the loft of the barn and fixed the rope to one of the joists above. She then turned a barrel on end and stood on the head of it. In that position she fastened the noose about her neck and when she was ready, upset the barrel under her, and in a few moments her soul was in eternity. When the family returned from camp-meeting in the afternoon, the unfortunate girl was found dangling at the end of the rope, cold and lifeless.
The Macon Telegraph
Macon, Georgia
19 Aug 1886, Thu • Page 4
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Fairburn, Ga , August 18. The Cleckler family, well known and in good circumstances, live about three miles from Fairburn. Yesterday the whole family, with the exception of a daughter, Miss Emma Cleckler, left home to attend a camp-meeting. After the rest of the family had gone and the house was quiet, the young lady deliberately proceeded to the work of self destruction.
She went into the yard and secured a clothes line, which she took with her to a barn near by. She mounted to the loft of the barn and fixed the rope to one of the joists above. She then turned a barrel on end and stood on the head of it. In that position she fastened the noose about her neck and when she was ready, upset the barrel under her, and in a few moments her soul was in eternity. When the family returned from camp-meeting in the afternoon, the unfortunate girl was found dangling at the end of the rope, cold and lifeless.
The Macon Telegraph
Macon, Georgia
19 Aug 1886, Thu • Page 4
Palmetto, August 18. Miss Emma Cleckler committed suicide in this county near this place yesterday. The balance of the family had gone to camp meeting. Daring their absence she hung herself. Nothing positive is known as to the cause of this rash act. Miss Cleckler was twenty-five years old and belonged to one of the best families in the county. It is said that she attempted suicide once before by tying her feet together and rolling into a fish pond.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Fairburn, Ga , August 18. The Cleckler family, well known and in good circumstances, live about three miles from Fairburn. Yesterday the whole family, with the exception of a daughter, Miss Emma Cleckler, left home to attend a camp-meeting. After the rest of the family had gone and the house was quiet, the young lady deliberately proceeded to the work of self destruction.
She went into the yard and secured a clothes line, which she took with her to a barn near by. She mounted to the loft of the barn and fixed the rope to one of the joists above. She then turned a barrel on end and stood on the head of it. In that position she fastened the noose about her neck and when she was ready, upset the barrel under her, and in a few moments her soul was in eternity. When the family returned from camp-meeting in the afternoon, the unfortunate girl was found dangling at the end of the rope, cold and lifeless.
The Macon Telegraph
Macon, Georgia
19 Aug 1886, Thu • Page 4
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Fairburn, Ga , August 18. The Cleckler family, well known and in good circumstances, live about three miles from Fairburn. Yesterday the whole family, with the exception of a daughter, Miss Emma Cleckler, left home to attend a camp-meeting. After the rest of the family had gone and the house was quiet, the young lady deliberately proceeded to the work of self destruction.
She went into the yard and secured a clothes line, which she took with her to a barn near by. She mounted to the loft of the barn and fixed the rope to one of the joists above. She then turned a barrel on end and stood on the head of it. In that position she fastened the noose about her neck and when she was ready, upset the barrel under her, and in a few moments her soul was in eternity. When the family returned from camp-meeting in the afternoon, the unfortunate girl was found dangling at the end of the rope, cold and lifeless.
The Macon Telegraph
Macon, Georgia
19 Aug 1886, Thu • Page 4
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