Since the exact death date was not given, the date of a newspaper article was used.

# 1 - - Pilot, Enterprise, January 29, 1915

A report reaches us just as The Enterprise is going to press that S. A. Bigford, whose home is on the north side of the track, hanged himself sometime last night. He was absent from home in the evening and his wife thought he had gone to one of the neighbors as he frequently did in the evening. He didn’t return during the night and on instituting a search, his body was found in the chicken house. He had used a piece of baling wire with which to end his existence. He formerly owned a farm and lived southwest of Herman as his father before him did, but some years ago traded the farm for the Maher stock of merchandise across the track. He leaves a wife and three daughters, two married, and one son married. Deceased was about sixty years of age. No arrangements for the funeral have yet been made.

# 2 - - Pilot, February 3, 1915

S. M. Bigford committed suicide last Thursday night by hanging himself with some wire in the chicken barn. Mrs. Bigford thought he was out at the neighbor’s visiting as he frequently did and went to bed. In the morning when she found he hadn’t come home she became alarmed and began search for him. When she opened the door to the chicken barn, she saw the body hanging, he having been dead since early in the evening. So far as is known there was no reason for the act, as his home life was pleasant and there had been no recent change in his financial circumstances. The funeral was held at the residence at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon, Rev. F. E. Volck, of the Baptist Church, officiating.

Samuel Morvalden Bigford was born near Fon Du Lac, Wis., May 16th, 1852, and he was therefore not quite 63 years of age. He came to this county in about 1868 and was married to Miss Sarah Souder, of Herman, in this city Oct. 1st, 1879. They settled on a farm three miles south of Herman, where they lived until March, 1897, when they moved to this city, having taken the old Jas. E. Maher stock of dry goods and groceries in on a trade for the farm. His health failed and he closed the store out and has been living quietly ever since. He was a member of the Knights of the Maccabees and of the A.O.U.W., having $1,000 insurance in the former, which he had drawn out as a sick benefit, and $2,000 in the latter.

Besides the wife, he leaves one son, Arthur, of Omaha; and three daughters, Clara, of Scottsbluff, Neb.; Mrs. Edgar Skinner of Herman; and Mrs. H. E. Pinney, of Scottsbluff. All were here for the funeral Sunday. He leaves one brother, Orin, who lives at Tampa, Kan., and one sister, Mrs. Geo. Gallin , who lives in Wisconsin. Mrs. P.V. Boss, of this city, is a sister of Mrs. Bigford, also Mrs. J.W. Brunton and Mrs. A.L. Sullivan, of Herman. As Mrs. Bigford would otherwise be left alone she will probably close up the house and make her home with the children in the future.