Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Goodenough, Louis W.   1922 June 13, 1922
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St. Johns News – Thursday, 15 June 1922
LIGHTNING KILLS FARMER NEAR PORTLAND DURING BIG STORM
Louis Goodenough Hit While Plowing Garden

Portland – Louis Goodenough a young farmer living in Sebewa Township was 
instantly killed during an electrical storm Monday afternoon about four 
o’clock.  Mr. Goodenough with his wife and three children, who survive him, 
live on a farm in the western part of Sebewa and while he was plowing the 
garden of Milo Smith, near his home on the Bellevue road, the storm came up, a 
jolt of lightning striking him, killing him instantly.  It is reported that 
the hair was entirely burned from the side of his head.

Although the team which he was driving was uninjured, another team in a nearby 
field belonging to Harry Tew, became frightened from the same bolt, one of the 
animals running into the tongue of a cultivator, receiving injuries that 
caused its death a little later.  During the same storm the Goodenough 
resident was also struck by lightning, considerable damage being done in some 
of the rooms in the upper story of the building.

Mr. Goodenough is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Goodenough, who resided at 
Tremayne’s Corners.  Besides his wife, three children and his parents, he 
leaves a brother and two sisters, Arthur Goodenough, who is also a farmer in 
the same vicinity, Mrs. Erastus Wright, Portland and Mrs. Milo Smith, who also 
lives in Sebewa Township.


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