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NameLast: Pontius
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DeathDay: 9
DeathYear: 1926
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OriginalDeathCity: Henry Township
OriginalDeathState: IN
OriginalDeathCounty: Fulton
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Children: adopted daughter Grace, step-son James Wilkinson
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CreatedDate: 10/30/2021 5:47:55 PM
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OriginalNotes: 1900 Census, Swayzee, Sims Township, Grant County
Clarence W. Pontius, b. Nov. 1869, age 30, m. 10 years, b. IN, parents b. OH, Photo Artist, own
Mary B., wife, 33, 1/1 child, b. IN
James W. Wilkinson, step son, b. Dec. 1885, IN, at school

Find A Grave 64333594
OBITUARY, The Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, December 9, 1926
Clarence PONTIUS, aged 57, a Henry Township farmer, ended his life by hanging this morning in the barn on his farm which is located about two miles south and a quarter of a mile west of Akron. The gruesome discovery was made by his adopted daughter, Miss Grace [PONTIUS], a few minutes after the deed was committed. Temporary insanity, from brooding over financial difficulties, is believed to be the cause of the rash act.

Pontius who resides on the farm of his deceased father, Nathan PONTIUS, was a widower, his wife having died about five years ago. At ten o'clock Pontious left the residence to bring in some wood for his daughter, Grace, 22 years of age, who kept house for her father since the mother's death. After some time had elapsed Grace instigated a search for her father and found his lifeless body dangling at the end of a rope which was fastened to the rafters in the loft of the barn.

Pontius had used a section of his hay-fork rope to commit the deed, fastening one end to the heavy beams of the roofing. The death leap was made off the top of the granary. His feet had a six foot clearnce from the barn floor. The body was still warm when cut down by Hugh MILLER and Charles BRIDEGROOM, neighbors, who were summoned by the daughter. Had the suicide desired to change his intentions he could have easily done so by stepping onto a platform which was only a couple of feet distant from his body.

Besides the adopted daughter, Pontius leaves a step-son, James WILKINSON, of Marion, Ind., and a brother, Friendly [PONTIUS], at Daytona, Fla.

Coroner C. B. HIATT of Kewanna was called to the scene of death but as this issue of the News-Sentinel went to press he had not returned his verdict.
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CATNUM: 4102
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City: Denver
State: IN
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Name: C. W. Pontius Globe Gallery
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PersonID: 3899
CATNUM: 4102
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City: Swayzee
State: IN
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Name: Clarence W. Pontius
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OriginalSource: 1900 Census, Swayzee, Sims Township, Grant County
Clarence W. Pontius, b. Nov. 1869, age 30, m. 10 years, b. IN, parents b. OH, Photo Artist, own

1901-1902 Chronicle Co.'s Marion City Directory, p. 698
Clarence W. Pontius, photographer, Swayzee
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