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- Newspaper Obituary - January 17, 1929 Journal and Republican and Lowville Times - Lowville, New York - ENDS LIFE WITH POISON - John D. Schumaker, Native of West Leyden, Had Been in Failing Health Many Months - Getting up while his son was in the barn, John D. Schumaker, 59, town of Augusta farmer, went to the kitchen cupboard, returned to bed and drank part of a cup of poison. He died about two hours later. Dr. S. B. Grant, Munnsville, reached the beside before Schumaker died, but was unable to save his life. Coroner Gordon A. Holden, Utica, gave cause of death as suicide. Mr. Schumaker suffered for a year and a half with blood poisoning and had been in failing health. He was despondent and believed he was not going to get well. He had been a resident of the town of Augusta for 30 years. He was born in West Leyden, Lewis county, October 15, 1869. Surviving are his wife, Eliza Schumaker; two sons, William, at home, and John of Newport; six daughters, Mrs. Samuel Pease, Mrs. John Blair, Mrs. Orva Tracey, all of Knoxboro; Mrs. James Ladeux, Rome; Mrs. Daniel Ward, Munnsville, and Florence Schumaker at home; four brothers, Henry, Vernon; Joseph, Rochester; Lewis, Mexico; William, Syracuse; and one sister, Mrs. Jacob Greander, Utica, also 13 grandchildren.
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1869 - 1929 (60 years)