Fremont-Custer-Pueblo County CO Archives Obituaries.....King, Henry Bascom August 30, 1919
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Canon City Record, Canon City, Colorado Thursday, September 4, 1919
A SOLDIER BOY LOSES HIS LIFE BY LIGHTNING NEAR HILLSIDE
Henry King  was cutting oats at 6 o’clock Saturday evening when struck.

Henry Bascom King of Hillside was killed by lightning during a thunderstorm 
last Saturday evening about 6 o’clock.  He was employed at the time of the 
accident on the ranch of District Attorney T. Lee Witcher of this city which 
is located west of the village of Hillside.

He was in the harvest field cutting oats, driving three horses to a binder, 
when the messenger of death came to him.  A little thunderstorm developed in 
the mountains nearby, and a bolt of lightning seemingly from an almost 
cloudless sky, struck the young man just back of the left temple, making its 
way through his body, emerging near the right hip.  So intense was the heat 
from the thunderbolt that it melted a portion of the steel seat of the binder 
on which he sat at the time.  His brother, Canie King was at work about 100 
yards away, and he noticed that the horses had stopped and that the driver had 
fallen from the machine.  He ran over to see what had happened.  He found his 
brother lying on the ground in a lifeless condition.  Assistance was summoned 
and the young man was carried to his home where the remains were subsequently 
prepared for burial.  

The deceased was one of three brothers at home, none of whom are married.  The 
survivors, Canie and Waldo King.  Bascom was a faithful and dutiful son of a 
widowed mother who regarded him with love and affection.  Rev. Sperry was his 
pastor during his seven years ministry on the Hillside circuit, and the 
deceased, like his brothers was a dependable man in supporting the hall work 
where religious services were held.  While Bascom King never made a definite 
profession of religion, he lived a good clean, moral life and gave expression 
to what he believed in the wholesome life he lived.  He was the pride of a 
good mother.



Additional Comments:
Other accounts tell of a horse being killed along with Bascom.  Dorothy King 
Young who had Bascom’s WWI uniform along with his hat and some other items 
placed them in the Pioneer Museum in Florence, CO.  Henry B King's funeral was 
the largest in the county at that time.

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