Ulysses Grant Kightlinger LAST NAME: Kightlinger FIRST NAME: Ulysses MIDDLE NAME: Grant NICKNAME:  MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE:  GENDER: M MILITARY:  BORN: 1866 DIED: 9 Aug 1912 BURIED: 11 Aug 1912 ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Salem Flour Mill BIRTH PLACE:  Salem, Marion Co., Oregon DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon NOTES:  OSBH DC (Marion County 1912) #2395 - U. G. Kightlinger, male, widowed, b. Salem, Oregon, d. 9 Aug 1912 in Salem, Oregon (OSIA) at the age of 46 y's 6 m's 14 d's, name of father A. S. Kightlinger (b. Penn.), maiden name of mother Mary Morgan (b. Ohio), undertaker Clough, informant Hosp. Records. MARRIAGE - "Grant Kightlinger, over 21 & Elsie A. Nye, over 20, m 26 Jan 1887 at house of Marion Kightlinger by J. Bowersox, M. G. Aff: Marion Kightlinger. Wit: J. H. & Mrs. J. H. Penland #3325 pg 349". BIOGRAPHICAL: He always went by the name of U.G. Kightlinger (source - Daniel Froehlich) BIOGRAPHICAL:  TRIED TO ELOPE -- GRANT KIGHTLINGER SUSTAINS BROKEN LEG BY FALL FROM ASYLUM WINDOW.   Made Rope of Bed Clothing, Tore Bars From Window and Endeavored to Reach Ground, but Rope Broke and He Dropped Thirty Feet to Ground.  Ulysses Grant Kightlinger, who was committed to the asylum from this city a short time ago, made an attempt to escape from that institution last evening and in so doing sustained a serious compound fracture of the leg, while having a narrow escape from death. About 6 o’clock in the evening, while in his room on the third floor, in ward No. 9 in the north wing, he succeeded in wrenching the bars out of the window casing, then made a rope out of his bed clothing, fastened it to the window and proceeded to let himself down to the ground.  When he dropped about five feet he found that the knots were slipping, so he raised himself to the sill, readjusted the knots and started again.  The weight of his body was too much for the rope and when he was in mid-air it broke on the sharp corner of the sill, letting him drop to the ground thirty feet or more.  When he struck both bones of his one leg above the ankle were broken, but his cunning determination to reach town caused him to ignore the fracture, so he crawled sixty feet to the north fence, which he climbed and was making for the street car when he was found. During the process of his flight he was missed from the ward and the attendants at once instituted search, but he was discovered outside before they reached him.  When found one of the bones of the leg was sticking through the flesh and skin, the result probably of his exertions in crawling and climbing the fence.  He was at once carried to the infirmary, where his injuries received medical attention and at a late hour last night was doing first rate.  He told the doctors the entire story of his escapade and said he was determined to get away and come to the city. The only serious feature of the fracture is the close proximity to the ankle joint, and if no complications arise on that account, he will come out all right.  Oregon Statesman 14 Dec 1905 8:4  BIOGRAPHICAL:  MRS. KIGHTLINGER DECLARES SHE CAN NO LONGER LIVE WITH HUSBAND  Plaintiff in New Divorce Suit Recites Long List of Cruel Acts of Which She Alleges the Defendant Has Been Guilty In Past.  Between 4 and 5 o’clock last evening the papers in a new divorce case entitled Elsie A. Knightlinger [sic] vs U. G. Kightlinger, were filed with the clerk of department No. 2 of the circuit court for Marion county. The complaint charges cruel and in human treatment and gross personal indignities and consists of nine typewritten pages in which the domestic relations of the parties are set forth. The gist of Mrs. Kightlinger’s charge is that she has been mistreated for many years and says that she has borne it patiently under the belief that her husband was insane, but that the county court of Marion county, the officials at the state insane asylum and a board of physicians in California have all pronounced Mr. Kightlinger not insane and that the defendant armed with these credentials has recently returned from California and has since made life interesting for his wife and family. Mrs. Kightlinger says in her complaint that Mr. Kightlinger has constantly in his possession a loaded revolver with which he intends to kill her and she asks the court for a temporary restraining order preventing him from molesting her during the pendency of the suit. Three children, Mrs. Campbell, a married daughter, living in Portland, Miss Alta Kightlinger, aged 17 years, and Grant Kightlinger, Jr., aged 9 years, are the issue of the marriage, which took place at Salem, Oregon, January 26, 1887.  Mrs. Kightlinger asks for one third of the defendant’s real property, $100, for her support during the pendency of the suit, $100, attorneys fees and for the custody of the minor children.  All the parties are well known in Salem, where they have lived for twenty years, the defendant being commonly known as “Grant” Kightlinger. Carey F. Martin appears on the papers filed last evening as attorney for Mrs. Kightlinger. Weekly Oregon Statesman 25 Jan 1907 1:6 OBITUARY:  KIGHTLINGER -- In this city, August 9, 1912, U. G. Kightlinger aged 46 years. The deceased is survived by a wife Mrs. Elsie Hensley of Salem, and by two daughters, Mrs. Alta Hensley of St. Helens, Oregon, and Mrs. Ondo Campbell of Portland. The deceased is also survived by three brothers, Marion Kightlinger of this city, Elmer, of Riverside, California, and Schuyler, of Salem. The funeral services will be held at 2:30 this afternoon from Leslie Church.  Oregon Statesman 11 Aug 1912 5:7 INSCRIPTION:  U. Grant Kightlinger 1866 - 1912 SOURCES:  LR  LD  OSBH DC (Marion County 1912) #2395 Marion Co.  Oregon Marriage Records, 1884-88, Vol V, pg 32 Saucy OS 14 Dec 1905 8:4  WOS 25 Jan 1907 1:6  OS 11 Aug 1912 5:7 CONTACTS:  LOT: 916 SPACE: 2 SE N½ LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.163' LATITUDE: W 123° 03.008' IMAGES: