Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Sapp, P. Ferry 1881
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Sentinel-Standard Weekender, 12 Jul 2014

Originally printed in the Ionia Daily Sentinel, 13 Jul 1881

Hot.  Heat, lightning, sunstroke and death all over the country.  P. Ferry Sapp
of Easton township was killed by lightning.  The coroner held an inquest and
said the lightning first struck the back of the head, cutting off a piece of the
hat-band, then went around the right side of the neck and throat, where there
was a hole where a portion of the electric fluid had apparently gone into the
body.  There were several abrasions of the skin as though he had been
“peppered.”  The collar was torn off his neck.  The fluid then skipped to his
legs, and taking the inner seems ripped both legs of the pantaloons completely
from top to bottom, the threads, not the cloth, being cut.  Then entering his
shoes it tore them both off his feet and into shreds.  It then bored two round
smooth holes as if with an inch auger into the ground and disappeared.  Easton
and Ionia people were present at the inquest and every one of them speaking of
the esteem in which the deceased had been held.  The funeral services took place
this afternoon, from the residents of Hon. J.C. Blanchard, in this city.


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