OBIT: Mary LONG, 1880, Huntingdon County, PA

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A Huntingdon Girl Commits Suicide.

  The usually quiet village of Huntingdon was considerably surprised on 
Saturday morning by the announcement that Miss Mary Long had committed 
suicide by taking arsenic, during the preceding night.  For some time a 
young man named Smith had been paying Miss Long assiduous attention, 
which were reciprocated by the young lady, and would in all probability 
have ended in a hymeneal contract, but for the perfidious qualities of 
the young man.  This so preyed upon the mind of Miss Long as to cause 
her to become melancholy, and commit suicide.  She is the daughter of 
very respectable parents, who are farmers, living on the suburbs of 
Huntingdon.  The affair has caused considerable comment in the sad way 
in which Miss Long ended her existence.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, June 1, 1880