Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Goodenough, Beatrice 1901
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net February 26, 2010, 1:03 pm

Belding Banner, 1 Aug 1901

Killed By Lightning.

Little Beatrice Goodenough of Orange a Victim Last Week.

Ionia county has been a storm center for the past month, but there has been 
little damage, comparatively speaking, from lightening itself.  Last Thursday 
evening, however, at 10 o’clock the third severe storm of recent date claimed a 
victim in the person of little Beatrice, eight-year-old daughter of Wm. 
Goodenough of Orange.

The family live on what is known as the old Goodenough farm, a half mile west 
and a half mile south of the LeValley church.  The parents and three children 
were retired.  The parents were in their room.  The children were in another 
lying on a bed made upon the floor, and all were sound asleep.  Suddenly the 
father realized the house had been struck by lightning, and evidently being his 
first intimation of the storm.  He rushed out into the room where the little 
ones were sleeping and found Beatrice dead.  Her twin sister was slightly 
burned about the eye which was inflamed, but the third child, the youngest was 
unharmed.  The house was not set on fire nor much damage done to it.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/g/goodenou2949nob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/

File size: 1.7 Kb