Laura Lucinda Stetler

Other Events:

• Newspaper: 5 Mar 1914, Payne, Paulding County, Ohio, United States; Visit from daughter; Address:
  "The Payne Reflector and Press Review"
• Newspaper: 6 Jul 1916; The Payne Reflector and Press Review (Payne, Ohio), 6 July 1916, p5
• Census: 1920, Highland Park, Wayne County, Michigan, United States; as Laura Leeth, wife, in the household of Emmet Leeth
• Census: 1930, Highland Park, Wayne County, Michigan, United States; as Laura L. Leeth, wife, in the household of Emmett O. Leeth
• Residence: 1935, Highland Park, Wayne County, Michigan, United States
• Census: 1940, Highland Park, Wayne County, Michigan, United States; as Laura Leeth, head of household
• Obituary: 21 Nov 1940; The Payne Reflector and Press Review (Payne, Ohio) 21 November 1940, p1

Notes:

Newspaper:
Mrs. Emmett Leeth returned to her home in Detroit last Friday after a few days visit with her mother, Mrs. Laura Stutler.

Newspaper:

Mrs. Emmett Leeth and little daughter of Detroit is here for a month's visit with her husband's parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Leeth.

Obituary:

Former Payne Resident a Suicide
Mrs. Laura Stetler Leeth, 46, a former Payne resident, committed suicide last Friday in the basement of her home in Detroit by hanging.
Mrs. Leeth and her husband had been separated since last February. Last Wednesday, Mr. Leeth called on his wife for a reconciliation, but his efforts proved futile.
Thursday evening Mrs. Leeth told her daughter, Miss Mary Jane, who resided with her, not to awaken her the following morning before she left for school, and also advised her to go to the home of another daughter, Mrs. Virginia McNie, after school and remain for supper Mrs. Leeth also was to be at the McNie home for supper. As Mrs. Leeth failed to appear at the McNie home, the daughters became alarmed, and with Mr. McNie, drove to the Leeth home. They searched the house and finally went to the basement where they found her hanging from a rope.
Funeral services were held Tuesday morning in Detroit, after which the body was brought here and laid to rest in the Wiltsie cemetery, east of Payne.
Surviving are the husband, Emmett Leeth and three daughters, Mrs. Virginia McNie, Mrs. Leah Knisley and Mis Mary Jane, and one granddaughter, Judith Ann McNie, all of Detroit.

Laura married Emmett Orland Leeth on 24 Sep 1913 in Highland Park, Wayne County, Michigan, United States. Emmett (son of Martin Mayhugh Leeth and Louisa Jane Underwood) was born on 24 Dec 1892 in Harrison Township, Paulding County, Ohio, United States; died on 15 Jul 1953 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States; was buried on 17 Jul 1953. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]