Elizabeth Joering
Cincinnati Enquirer, 7 March 1881, page 7
NEWPORT
IN A CISTERN-Mrs. Elizabeth Joering, aged sixty-one years,
yesterday committed suicide in Dayton by jumping in a cistern at her home on
Second street near Main. About five o'clock she arose from bed and made a fire
in the stove for the purpose of getting breakfast. After building the fire she
went to the cistern for the purpose of drawing a bucket of water and
deliberately jumped in.
Her daughter, going to the cistern a few minutes afterward, discovered her body floating and called a couple of men, Joe Niemeyer and Frank Schleutte, who succeeded in rescuing her lifeless form. Coroner Schoolfield summoned a jury and held an inquest; and the jury rendered a verdict of "Death by drowning while laboring under a temporary fit of insanity".
The deceased had shown symptoms of insanity for several months and made an attempt several weeks ago to jump in a cistern. She was the mother of Ex-Mayor Joering, of Dayton and was a highly respected lade.