Duplin County NcArchives Obituaries.....Kelly, David September 1859
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The Raleigh Standard, Sept.. 14, 1859
               DEATH BY LIGHTNING
   On Monday evening last, the good people of Duplin, residing between 
Magnolia and Warsaw, were visited by a severe thunder storm. We regret to hear 
from several communications before us, received this morning, of the 
unexpected death of MR. DAVID KELLY, by lightning. It appears MR. KELLY and 
his wife had been in the field to dig some potatoes, after which MRS. KELLY 
returned to the house, and MR. KELLY went in search of his cattle. MR. KELLY 
not returning as expected, his wife became uneasy, and search having been made 
for her husband for several hours, he was finally found about 10 o'clock at 
night, a quarter of a mile from his dwelling, resting on his knees with one 
arm lying over a log. On Tuesday CORONER LUKE KORNEGAY called a jury of 
inquest over the body. They returned a verdict that the deceased came to his 
death by a stroke of lightning. It is proper to say that the jury was assisted 
by DRS. DEVANE and BROADHURST, in their examinations. The deceased was a 
highly respectable citizen of Duplin, and his unexpected death has case a 
gloom over the neighborhood. He leaves a wife and two children to mourn his 
death. --"Wil. Journal"

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