BECK, George E.
He Should Have Died Earlier - Citizens at Pawpaw, Michigan are shocked at the report that George E. Beck, a wealthy lawyer who died suddenly a couple of weeks ago, killed himself to escape the results of fraudulent transactions. In addition to loaning money he also sold mortgage notes to clients. It is alleged that he sold a number of notes identical with the original and secured by the same property. It is believed that he could not succeed in extending the notes, and finding himself in a tight place, took his own life. Sixteen thousand dollars worth of fraudulent mortgage notes sold by Beck have been found. Dr. Hoyt, who made the autopsy on Beck's body, insists that death came from natural causes.
Transcribed and submitted by Veneta McKinney - From Hamilton News Press - Marion County, AL - Jan 2, 1895

FRATTALLONE, Leona Jean
of Paw Paw, passed on January 4, 2009 at her residence after living with cancer for 14 years, against all medical odds. She was born January 28, 1941 in Springfield, OH, the daughter of Lawrence and Dorothy (Detrick) McFarland. She was a special education teacher at Gobles High School, retiring in 2000. Jeanie was an active member of Paw Paw United Methodist Church where she enjoyed singing in the chancellor choir and playing in the bell choir. A service to honor her life was held on Thursday, January 8, 2009 at the Paw Paw United Methodist Church. On May 30, 1963 Jeanie was united in marriage with Dr. Joseph Frattallone, who survives. Also surviving are her two daughters, Sonja Jo Sullivan of South Lyon and Sylvia (Todd Robert Gertz) Frattallone of Grand Rapids; two grandchildren, Alyssa Jo Sullivan, and Ashton Alexandra Sullivan both of South Lyon; two sisters, Eleanor Joy Rutherford of Springfield, OH and Judith Faye (David) Kludy of Springfield, OH; a sister-in-law, Josephine (Elmer) Ehrhardt of Cincinnati, OH; two nieces, Felicia Willeman and Janet Balzer; two nephews, Mark Ehrhardt and Christopher Kludy; and one grand niece, Samantha Watson. Arrangements by Life Story Funeral Home, Betzler & Thompson-Paw Paw (800)822-7594 Life Story Funeral Homes.
From a "Friend of Genealogy" Grand Rapids Michigan Sunday January25, 2009

SIX, A.G. -- his wife and daughter
Paw Paw, Mich., April 10 – A coroner’s jury which investigated the deaths of Mrs. A. G. Six and her daughter, Dorothy, whose bodies were found in the ruins of their home at Lawrence, February 6, returned a verdict that both women died from the effects of poison administered by Mrs. Six’s husband, Dr. A. G. Six, a prominent country physician, while he was temporarily insane.
On March 11, Dr. Six committed suicide in his office. He left a letter in which he declared that his action was prompted by the unjust suspicion directed against him charging him with burning his home and the finding of the bodies of his wife and daughter.
After the suicide, the authorities called in experts who exhumed the bodies of Miss and Mrs. Six.
Contributed by Dale Donlon - The Oklahoman April 11, 1913

TABOR, Maude
Lawton, Mich.. Dec. 19.—Testifying at the coroner's Inquest this morning into the death of Maude Tabor, Mrs. Sarah Tabor, her aged mother, reiterated that the young woman had died of asthma. She maintained that she kept the body for burial in carrying out a death pact with her daughter Mrs. Tabor,who. with her son, Walter, was brought here from California, an a warrant charging murder of her daughter May 1, 1916. testified that she had laid the body out on a sofa for a week. Later, she testified, she wrapped It up and put it in a trunk which was her daughter's "hope chest." She then put the trunk in the basement under a mass of old shingles, she said, Intending that it should be kept there until she, too should die. and then burled with the daughter, as they had promised each other. She denied that, any attempt had been made to bury the body. The body of Miss Tabor, brilliant student of language and literature was found jammed Into a trunk in the basement of her home here about a mouth ago. Dr. A. S. Warthin, University of Michigan pathologist, who made a laboratory Analysis of the viscera testified at the inquest some time ago, that she had died of hemorrhages incident to induced child birth.
Contributed by Barb Z. - Date: 1919-12-20; Paper: Tucson Daily Citizen