Eldora J. "Dora" Scudder

1872 - 1939  (66 years)

• Name	Eldora J. "Dora" Scudder
  Nickname	Dora
  Birth	17 May 1872	Rupert, Greenbrier Co., WV   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	11 May 1939	East Rainelle, Greenbrier Co., WV   [1]
  	Cause: shock due to ingestion of a mixture of sodium & ammonia - suicide
  Burial	14 May 1939	Rainelle, Greenbrier Co., WV   [1]
  Person ID	I26953	Meadow Bluff Meanderings
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2009

  
  

  Father	Fulton Scudder,   b. 20 Mar 1837, Greenbrier Co., VA d. 26 Mar 1925, Rupert, Greenbrier Co., WV (Age 88 years)
  Mother	Frances A. "Fanny" Johnson,   b. 15 Nov 1847, Rockbridge Co., VA d. 5 Sep 1923, Rupert, Greenbrier Co., WV (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	25 Oct 1867	Greenbrier Co., WV   [2]
  Family ID	F10310	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joseph Franklin "Frank" Kline,   b. 1874, Clarke Co., VA d. Abt 1939 (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	5 Apr 1921	Lewisburg, Greenbrier Co., WV   [3]
  Family ID	F10314	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2009

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 17 May 1872 - Rupert, Greenbrier Co., WV Death - Cause: shock due to ingestion of a mixture of sodium & ammonia - suicide - 11 May 1939 - East Rainelle, Greenbrier Co., WV Burial - 14 May 1939 - Rainelle, Greenbrier Co., WV  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  The Charleston Gazette, 12 May 1939 Aged Wife Dies In Suicide Pact Husband Not Expected To Live After Couple Drinks Poison RAINELLE - May 11 ?(AP)? A pathetic decision of two old people to die together resulted today in the death of the wife, and physicians said the husband could live only a few hours. Frank Kline, 67, former lumberyard worker but lately on relief, stumbled into the office of Magistrate J. W. Lake soon after dawn and related that he and his wife had taken poison. Lake said Kline's story was that, with two drinking glasses and a bottle of home-mixed poison, the couple left their home in Rainelle last night and walked into the woods. Each drank a glass of the concoction they had prepared. Mrs. Dora Kline, 66, died during the night but the husband said he was unable to retain the potion. He spent the night in semi-delirium until he recovered strength to stagger into town, Lake said. Dr. W.C. McCauley reported tonight that Kline's condition was critical and he would not long survive his wife. Penniless, and on relief, Kline told the magistrate, the couple entered into a suicide pact "because we had nothing to live for... no friends, no children." "I am sorry," Kline said just before the physician ordered him to bed in a nearby home, "that I didn't go with her." A coroner's jury returned a verdict that Mrs. Kline died of drinking poison.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1071] West Virginia State Department of Health Death Certificate, #6194, Dist. No. 1371, Serial No. 44 (Reliability: 3). [S594] Shuck, Larry G., Greenbrier County, [West] Virginia, Marriages 1782-1900, (Athens, GA: Iberian Publishing Co., 1991). [S582] Greenbrier Co., WV MB 4, page 214 (Reliability: 3).