Obituary: Ed Palmer - 1939, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Michael Drewett, 6321 Clegg Rd., Pensacola, FL  32526
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Source: Winn Parish Enterprise, Thursday, Jan. 5, 1939
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Ed Palmer Killed By Lightning At Quarry Wednesday Morning
E. B. Barton, Jr., is Injured By Bolt As Pair Start To Work

        Ed Palmer, 25, employee of the Solvay Process Company here, was
killed instantly at 6:30 Wednesday morning by a bolt of lightning that
also injured his companion, E. B. Barton, Jr. as the two were getting
ready to report for work. Both were truck drivers at the quarry.
        This section had experienced one of the heaviest rains in its
history that started late Tuesday afternoon and continued all Tuesday
night. Electrical storms accompanied the rains throughout the night and
finally subsided at around eight o'clock Wednesday morning.
        Palmer and Barton had just arrived at the quarry and had been
talking to John Royal and Mr. Terry, also employees of the plant and were
going toward their trucks when the bolt struck them. When Mr. Royal and
Mr. Terry reached the men, Mr. Palmer was dead. Mr. Barton was reported to
be suffering from burns and shock. He was carried to his home near
Atlanta.
        Mr. Palmer is survived by his wife, the former Rolene Bell of
Atlanta and one child. His remains were conveyed to the home of his wife's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ace Bell, of Atlanta, from where funeral services
were conducted Thursday at 3 p.m.
        Palmer was a native of Caddo parish and came to this parish as a
CCC enrollee, later marrying Miss Bell.