Marion County GaArchives News.....W.D. Willis House Consumed By Fire April 27 1894
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The Marion County Patriot
The Marion County Patriot, No. 17
April 27, 1894
Page Three

House Burned

Thursday night of last week between 8 and 9 o’clock during the severe 
thunderstorm the dwelling house of Mr. W.D. Willis was consumed by fire.  He 
lost everything except a barrel of flour, a table and his corn.  He thinks the 
house was set on fire by lightning as there were many evidences to show this.

When the severe cloud was coming up Mrs. Willis became frightened thinking a 
cyclone was coming, and took the children and went to the home of Mr. Jim 
Simmons not far away.  As they were entering the house there came a loud clap 
of thunder and in a few minutes the house was discovered to be on fire.  When 
Mr. Willis and Mr. Simmons arrived at the burning house they noticed that the 
northwest corner was partially shattered and that some broken parts of the 
sewing machine, which was at the back end of the house, were found after the 
fire near the fireplace.  There had been no fire in that room for a week and as 
it occurred so soon after they left the house during a hard rain it seems to 
have been caused by lightning.

It is fortunate that Mr. Willis and his wife and children had left the building 
as some of them or all of them might have been killed and consumed in the 
flames.


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