CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - AHLSTRAND Hulda A. Leener

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HULDA A. AHLSTRAND

Suicide at Magnet
            
Mrs. Sam Ahlstrand Found Dead at Brothers House

Her Mind was Unbalanced

Last Friday morning the body of Mrs. Sam Ahlstrand was found cold in 
death at the home of her brother Charles J. Leener 7 miles northwest 
of Randolph and about three miles from Magnet.

As the story comes to us, Mrs. Ahlstrand had arisen sometime during the 
night or very early morning, gone to the corncrib on the farm of her 
brother and there taken carbolic acid. Her absence was noted as the 
family arose and a search revealed her lifeless body.

The cause of her act is no doubt due to a mental condition that 
unbalanced her mind and she was not mentally responsible for her act. 
She had not been in very good health it appears.

Mrs. Hulda Ahlstrand was born in Sweden March 4, 1858, and was 62 years 
and three months old. Her maiden name was Hulda Amelia Leener. She came 
to America in 1886, and settled at Ludlow, Pa. and in June 1887, came 
to Randolph to visit her brother C.J. Leener. She was employed by 
families in Randolph and in Wayne until her marriage to Samuel Ahlstrand 
on August 3, 1897. They resided on a farm 8 miles south of Randolph for 
21 years, where she worked hard with her husband until spring of 1918 when 
they retired from the farm. She moved with her husband to a place 
southwest of Magnet. She had no children and leaves her husband and her 
brother, C.J. Leener.