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Lorenzo D Housel

Birth	:	Dec 1821
Death	:	20 Jul 1879
Burial	:	Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Henry County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.9319305, -91.5121613
Description	:	58y 7m 20d TRAGIC DEATH OF L.D. HOUSEL. He Throws Himself Headlong into his Well and Dies from Injuries Received. On Monday morning the startling news reached us that L.D. Housel, a prominent farmer and highly esteemed citizen of Tippecanoe township, living two miles west of Oakland, had committed suicide on Sunday afternoon, by throwing himself into his well. Through the favor of Mr. Housel, residing in this city, we obtain the following particulars of this sad affair. One week ago last Friday, Mr. Housel got overheated while at work and was heard frequently to complain... Read More	58y 7m 20d TRAGIC DEATH OF L.D. HOUSEL. He Throws Himself Headlong into his Well and Dies from Injuries Received. On Monday morning the startling news reached us that L.D. Housel, a prominent farmer and highly esteemed citizen of Tippecanoe township, living two miles west of Oakland, had committed suicide on Sunday afternoon, by throwing himself into his well. Through the favor of Mr. Housel, residing in this city, we obtain the following particulars of this sad affair. One week ago last Friday, Mr. Housel got overheated while at work and was heard frequently to complain afterwards that it seemed somehow to affect his mind so that he could not control his thoughts and feelings as formerly. Yet in a general way he was around as usual, and it was only occasionally that anything peculiar or unusual would be noticed about his manner and conversation. He several times spoke of being much worried for fear some one was conspiring to do him some personal injury, burn his stacks of grain or something of that kind. On Sunday last, Dr. Williams with his wife rode over from this city to make them a visit. He arrived at the residence of Mr. Housel about noon. Mr. Housel greeted them pleasantly and went with the doctor to the barn to put out his horse. He seemed unusually talkative. He spoke about his harvest, his haying and other home affairs. They had dinner about 1 o'clock and Mr. housel seemed to eat as usual. The doctor noticed once, a wild look of his eyes. After dinner they all noticed that he appeared silent and disturbed and muttered rather to himself what was almost unintelligible to others. About 2 o'clock Dr. Williams and the son Lafayette were at the barn, Mr. Housel was observed by an older daughter to go to the well for a drink. She watched him He drank when she turned her head. The youngest daughter, Cora Housel, aged nine years was standing at at another door and saw her father place his hands on each side of the curb, throw his head downward as low as he could, then drop. She gave the alarm. Immediately the Dr. and Lafayette came from the barn and Lafayette was let down into the well. The well was 28 feet deep, with about 8 feet of water. He found is father on the top of the water, and attaching a rope to his arm he was held up from the water until more help came. George Laird, a neighbor was the first to reach them, next Bill Smith. Smith descended in the well and with his assistance they lifted Mr. Housel out. He soon recovered consciousness and inquired what it all meant. He could not realize what he had done. his head and face was cut and bruised by the fall, but the worst was the evident internal injuries he had received in falling so far. It is supposed that he fell so that his breast struck the water, his lungs were severely injured or ruptured. Dr. McClure was sent for and arrived about ten minutes before he died. He died between five and six o'clock. He died easily and quickly without a struggle. L.D. Housel was born in Northumberland county, Penn., and was between 55 and 60 years of age when he died. He removed to this county in 1845, and lived for a time near this city. From here he moved to Pleasant Hill where he resided for several years. He there joined the M.E. church, and form this church his funeral was held on Tuesday at 11 o'clock, and in the church yard there he was buried.- Fourteen years ago he removed to his present farm near Oakland. Mrs. Housel, his wife, survives him. They have had nine children, eight of whom are now living, two boys and six girls. Two of their children are married, and one an older brother, is living away, leaving five children at home. Mr. Housel was a leading man in his township and a man highly esteemed for his many excellent qualities. He has several times been elected supervisor from his township, was the leading man in their Grange at Pleasant point, and a man widely known and generally respected throughout the county. For some months, it is said, he seemed to have a presentiment that he had not long to live and had spoken of it to his friends in a way that caused them some uneasiness. He had been noticed to stand about the well rather suspiciously at different times for a day or two before. A somewhat remarkable coincidence of this sad affair is developed in the fact that Mr. Housel's own mother, many years ago, back in Pennsylvania, met her death in a similar way, in the same well where her daughter, a sister of Mr. Housel, had met the same tragic end before this. Thus the tendency to this act seems to have been in a degree hereditary, though unsuspected by his friends. The accident reported last week, which resulted in the death of Mr. Jeffries on his farm east of town, and this sudden, sad, ending of the earthly life of Mr. Housel, proved to us how weak, how frail we are.- No one is secure, no one safe from accident, from disease, that in an unexpected moment may call him from this earth's life to the life beyond. These are solemn thoughts and it is such sad events as these we have recorded that bring them home to each one of us. Mt Pleasant paper.

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Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Charlotta A Park Housel

(1825 - 1899)

Siblings

Benjamin F. Housel

(1830 - 1865)

Children

James Monroe Housel

(1847 - 1865)

Mary Rachel Housel Williams

(1851 - unknow)

Lafayette Park Housel

(1858 - 1936)

Ida Marie Housel Harshbarger

(1860 - 1890)

Cora Mae Housel Pero

(1870 - 1961)

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