----Source: CLARK COUNTY REPUBLICAN PRESS (Neillsville, Wis.) 11/16/1893

Seif, August ( - 9 NOV 1893)

Not since the killing of Al Owen has the town of Lynn, Clark County experienced so great a sensation as that caused by the suicide of August Seif, a farmer living about three miles south of Lynn Station, on the 9th last. On the 30th of October the deceased received severe injuries by falling from his wagon and becoming entangled in the lines. He was dragged some distance and hurt internally. The doctor at Lynn whom he consulted, gave him little hope of recovery, and his condition seemed to make him despondent. On the 8th inst. He made an attempt at cutting some wood for a neighbor, but on spitting up considerable blood he returned home, and sat throughout the rest of the day, listless and moody. The next morning he arose early, and kissing his wife and children good bye, started as they thought to try the wood cutting. During the day the wife of the neighbor for whom he was to cut the wood came over to inquire why he had not com. On learning that he was not at the neighbor's, the family became alarmed, and after making inquiries throughout the neighborhood sent the to Neillsville for George Weisner, Mr. Seif's brother-in-law. Mr. Weisner immediately started a search in the wood near Seif's home. They tracked him to a spring, and after a protracted hunt on the day after his disappearance they were startled to find him hanging in a large maple tree about twenty feet off the ground, not more than sixty rods from the house. He had climbed the tree to a distance of thirty feet, and securing the rope to the tree and about his neck, he jumped, breaking his neck in the fall.

Mr. Weisner started at once to notify authorities. Deputy Sheriff Holverson happened to be at Lynn, and a party of six men was summoned, and an inquest held. He was buried in the Lynn Cemetery on the 12th, Rev. Hall of Neillsville officiating.

Mr. Seif was a hard-working man, and leaves his wife and four children in good circumstances. It is the prevailing opinion that his injuries, coupled with the thought that he could never recover, led him to commit the rash act that hastened his end.