Fred. Arend

Fred. Arend makes an end to his life with a revolver bullet.

In the residence of the farm run by him [for] his father-in-law G. Christ. Schatz, a little bit this side of Standley, on Sunday afternoon about 2 o'clock, Fred. Arend, laying half-clothed on the bed, shot himself with a .38 caliber revolver through the forehead into the brain. Shortly before he had gone upstairs to the bedroom to change clothes for a walk with his wife. To her repeated queries, whether he was ready yet, he answered at first in the affirmative, but then not at all. When Mrs. Arend went to see for herself, she found her husband dead on the bed with a wound in his forehead, from which blood poured. The .38 caliber revolver, with which he killed himself, lay next to him on the bed. Mrs. Arend had not heard the shot, as evidently some other noise had drowned it out. In a letter, which Arend had written sometime shortly before his suicide, he maintained that his life was a failure, his friends mocked him, his wife and child did not want to live with him, and he could not live without them. Because of this he would die, and asked that his relatives in Strassburg, Ohio be notified and to bury him there.

The suicide was born on the 20th of December 1878 in Tuscarawas county, Ohio. A number of years ago he came to Defiance and worked here, as much as is known, in the factory of the Diamond Glass co., and for the builder Dan. Kintner. On the 21st of November 1909 he was wed by Pastor R. E. M. Engers with Miss Callie Schatz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Christ. Schatz; from this marriage only an infant son resulted. Lately, Arend had been so cantankerous and irascible, that his wife felt it necessary to move back with her infant to her parents. But quite a few days before the tragedy she had returned to her husband, who, as one can well imagine, through his constant brooding and rumination had worked himself into a state of temporary insanity. so also thinks coroner Chapman, who held the inquest already Sunday afternoon and determined the death a suicide.

Monday afternoon the brothers of the unfortunate, Charles and Albert Arend, and his brother-in-law James Bose arrived here from Tuscarawas county. According to the wishes of the wife made widow by this tragedy, they declared themselves ready to allow the burial to take place here. Therefore on Tuesday afternoon a funeral service took place in the residence under the direction of Pastor Knauer from Holgate, after which the remains were consigned to the earth here in the Riverside cemetery. Fred. Arend leaves behind the parents bowed down with grief, three brothers and three sisters. one brother is .... (column truncated).

[parents: Charles Arend,? Pauline Adams]
[per death record: birth: 28 Sep 1874 Ohio; death: 19 Oct 1913 Richland,? Defiance Co.,? Ohio; burial: 21 Oct 1913 Ohio,? USA]
[per marriage record: birth: 28 Dec 1878 Tuscarawas county,? Ohio]