Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2024 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Marcellus Messenger Saturday, 26 December 1874 CHARLES H. PITTS, a well-known farmer living a few miles west of Monroe, was found, the other evening, suspended by the neck to a beam in the barn, having apparently been dead about an hour. No explanation is given for the rash act. ===========================================================================