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Richard Otto Peters
Feb 1871 – 17 May 1905
| Birth | Feb 1871 |
| Death | 17 May 1905 |
| Cemetery | Pleasanton Cemetery Pleasanton , Buffalo County , Nebraska , USA |
| Added by | Pritch on 08 Jul 2013 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33521218 |
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FARMER SUICIDES NEAR PLEASANTON Richard Peters Shoots Himself in the Temple He was a modern Woodman, young and prosperous and no good reason for committing self-destruction known. A distressing tragedy occurred Wednesday near Pleasanton, in the suicide of Richard Peters, a well to do farmer living three and a half miles southeast of that place. There was apparently no sufficient cause for the act. He was in good circumstances, with one hundred and sixty acres and good improvements, with stock and grain sufficient to pay all that he owed, which was one thousand dollars on the farm. He was thirty-four years old and leaves a wife and five children, the oldest nine years old. He was a member of the Pleasanton camp, M.W., with an insurance certificate for two thousand dollars. For some little time Mr. Peters had been depressed, probably owing to hard work and physical depression. On Friday. May 12, he was kicked on the head by a horse and the injury undoubtedly affected his mind. On Wednesday morning, the 17th, he made an effort to hang himself with a rope in his barn, but the family being suspicious and watching him closely he gave up that plan. Soon after he stole away with a shot gun that was concealed in the barn. His disappearance was noted but nothing was thought of it. Late in the afternoon the trainmen on the Pleasanton train from the east discovered the body of a man lying on the track. The train stopped, the body laid to one side, and noticed given at Pleasanton. From the description given it was taken for granted that the body was that of Peters. Fellow Woodmen went to the spot and removed the body to town. He had shot himself in the right temple, the body falling on the track, and it is supposed that he did this so that the train would finish what he might possibly fail to do. The spot was one mile east of the railroad iron bridge and two and one half miles from his home. The burial occurred on Thursday at Pleasanton. Kearney Daily Hub May 19, 1905
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- John H. Peters 1863–1899
- Fredrick "Fred" Peters 1865–1939
- Benjamin H. Peters Sr 1866–1956
- Henry John Peters 1873–1932
- Louis Peters 1874–1976
- William Peters 1877–1930
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