Reverend Samuel Luther Doss

brief biography and family

From an unidentified source:

Doss then boarded a bus to see her new suitor, Samuel Doss, in Tulsa, Oklahoma; they married in June 1953. Doss was neither abusive nor an alcoholic, but Nannie still found fault with him. He forbade magazines and television that were not enlightening or educational. Nannie left him for a short period in protest until he put her name on his bank account and took out two life insurance policies with her as beneficiary. Her first attempt to kill him with arsenic-laced prune cake failed, and he spent a month recovering in the hospital. When he returned home, she used her tried and true "arsenic in coffee" method, and Doss died soon afterward.

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Date and place of birth have also been (erroneously?) reported to be July 29, 1895 at an unspecified location (unattested, conflicts with his Find A Grave memorial).

links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nannie_Doss#Later_marriages
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7454796/samuel-luther-doss