Yadkin-Currituck County NcArchives Obituaries.....Ferebee, (Child) May 23, 1826
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Sept. 6, 1826  North Carolina Journal
   -- We have been informed within a few days past, that the youngest daughter 
of MR. THOMAS FEREBEE, of the Forks of the Yadkin, (but formerly of Currituck 
County) was killed by lightning in his yard, on the 23rd of May last. The 
little girl (aged six years) was in the yard when a shaft of lightning struck 
a walnut tree within about 20 steps of where she was: the electric fluid 
descended to the groung, and passed off in forks, one of which is supposed to 
be the cause of the little innocent's death. A goose was also killed near the 
tree. We could take this occasion to repeat the caution -- which has been 
given for the thousandth time -- that the surest way of avoiding fatal 
casualties caused by lightning is during thundershowers either to remain  in 
an open field, distant from any tree (especially old ones) or to go into a 
house, and stand in the middle of the floor. If this precaution be strickly 
observed, we will go security that very few deaths will happen by lightning.
                                        --West Carolinian

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