Emanuel County GaArchives Obituaries.....Davis, William J. March 22, 1890
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The Atlanta Constitution
Killed By Lighting

Mr. William J. Davis, one among Emanuel County's best citizens, living four 
miles south-east of Swainsboro, was killed on Saturday evening, the 22d 
instant, about 4 o'clock, at his residence.  Mr. Davis was at work on a crib in 
his lot, gabling it up, and was standing upon a scaffold, nailing on some 
plank, when a bolt of lighting came and struct him on the head and ran down his 
back, and then on a post, over which he was standing, tearing the post, into 
pieces.  The bolt, it seems, tore his clothing up very badly, breaking the skin 
only in one place-on his foot, tearing up his shoe.  His family, taking notice 
of his absence while raining , went out to look for him, and, to their 
surprise, found him dead at the crib in the lot.  

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