Franklin Chalfant FORINASH

   Cause of his death was by shooting himself with a .32 calibre revolver.⁵⁸

  General Notes:

The Weston Democrat, Friday, 25 April 1930

FORINASH, FRANK CHALFANT Committed suicide Tuesday. No reason given. Son of Jacob and Mary Linger Forinash. Children, Mrs. John Hersman, Akron, Ohio; Mrs. Ivan Carroll, Deanville, Lewis County; Richard Forinash, at home; brothers and sisters, Mrs. Georgia Wells, Vandalia; Mrs. Charles Strader, Akron, Ohio; Mrs. Lawrence Rittenhouse, Vandalia; Levi P. Forinash, Weston; M. B. Forinash, Webster Springs; David Forinash, Kansas City; Emory Forinash of Kansas. Burial Masonic Cemetery.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: farmer and rural carrier, Between 1917 and 1918. ²⁴

• Residence: Weston, Lewis Co., WV, Between 1917 and 1918. ²⁴

Franklin married Georgia May LIFE on 14 Jun 1900 in Lewis Co., WV.⁵⁷ (Georgia May LIFE was born on 17 Jan 1876 in Lewis Co., WV,⁵⁹ died on 6 Nov 1956 in Weston, Lewis Co., WV ⁵⁹ and was buried on 8 Nov 1956 in Masonic Cemetery, Weston, Lewis Co., WV ⁵⁹.). The cause of her death was cerebral hemorrhage.⁵⁸