Née le 1854 à Montogmery NY

Décèdès le 1870 à Otto PA

Marié le 04 MAR 1870 Wemple William Henry

Note: Mrs. William WEMPLE, nee ACKLER

Posted by Karen Bush on Mon, 15 Nov 1999 (web site http://cgi.roots.co
m/~genbbs)

Surname: WEMPLE, ACKLER

Mysterious and Determined Suicide of a Gowanda Lady.
A Young Married Lady Poisons herself, Refused all Remedies and Dies Wi
thout Revealing her Motive.

We hear from the [ ] that a young married lady, between eighteen and n
ineteen years of age, wife of Mr. Wm. WEMPLE, of Gowanda, Cattaraugu
s Co., committed suicide at Lockport, Erie Co., Pa., on the 15th ult.
, with almost unparalleled premeditation and determination and from mo
tives which she studiously concealed to the last. Mrs. WEMPLE´s fathe
r is a farmer, named W. W. ACKLER, residing at Gowanda, N.Y., where sh
e was married last July, and has lived most of the time since. She cam
e to Lockport on the 14th ult., accompanied by her husband, with the
n intention of paying his brother, Mr. John WEMPLE, a visit. The after
noon of the same day she complained of a headache, and about six o´clo
ck in the evening became so ill that she was compelled to lie down upo
n a sofa. About eight o´clock she was seized with convulsions. This ap
pears, from the questions of her husband, to have aroused his suspicio
ns, and he asked her what she had taken. She replied nothing, insiste
d that she only had a sick headache, and refused to receive medical ai
d. Her condition became so alarming that her husband called in two phy
sicians, who were satisfied that she had taken some kind of poison an
d endeavored to administer antidotes. She refused to take the remedies
, and when medicine was forced into her mouth, spit it out, and even c
arefully wiped her lips with her handkerchief. Meantime the poison wa
s slowly but surely doing its work