Saturday Night Genealogy Challenge: Biggest Surprise About an Ancestor

This weeks original post for the Saturday Night Challenge,  along with links to all the participant's posts can be found HERE.http://www.geneamusings.com/2017/07/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-what-was.html  Or it can be read as follows:

 Please answer the question - "What was the biggest surprise you found about an ancestor?" 

I have found out all sorts of cool facts about ancestors.  But I think most of the clear details of ancestor's lives that I have found has been at the great grandparent generation.  There are still many records and newspaper articles that can be found about that era that have clear details.  See the following newspaper articles by clicking on them in order to enlarge them enough to read.  

See upper right article titled "Was Rohrer Tragedy Result of Accident" which is continued on below

Underneath the bell photo is the continuation of the story from page one.

Elmer Rohrer (1886-1915) was my great grandfather,  Oscar Rohrer's, brother.  In 1915 he shot his wife and then himself.  According to the newspaper article there are two theories as to what happened.  One being that Elmer was depressed over the loss of a job and the other theory being the gun accidentally discharged after cleaning and shot his wife and then Elmer was so upset he shot himself.  If the reader of this post is able to click on the images so that they enlarge enough to read,  they will find all sorts of interesting details.  For example the crazy neighbor lady,  the names and types of Elmer' and his wife's pets,  the name of Elmer's favorite book and also family member's names.  While it is a terrible tragedy and not at in keeping with the type people my great grandparents were,  it was a big surprise to find out about.  My great grandmother (Oscar Rohrer's wife) told me many family history stories while I was growing up but she never mentioned this one.