Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Holland, Sarah Rebecca, 1900 

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FRANKLIN FACTS

 SARAH REBECCA HOLLAND

MAY 9 - Miss Rebecca Holland, aged sixty-six years, a sister of Mrs. William 
E. Rawls, of Franklin, and of Mr. M.W. Holland, of the county, was killed by 
lightning about 3 o'clock on Thursday evening, May 3, 1900.  She was visiting 
at the home of her niece, Mrs. John R. Dillon, on South Street and seeing a 
storm approaching, she went out in the back yard to get up some young 
chickens.  To protect herself from the rain she carried an umbrella raised 
over her head.   Lightning struck a tree a few feet distant, and after passing 
down the body to within ten or twelve feet of the earth, left the tree and 
struck the umbrella in the lady's hand, then striking her on the forehead, 
slightly burning the hair and breaking the skin, and killing her instantly. 
One of the shoes she wore was torn open by the stroke.  Miss Holland was 
immediately picked up by members of the family, carried into the house, and 
Dr. Goodman hurriedly summoned, but he found life extinct.  The funeral took 
place Saturday afternoon.  The services were conducted by Rev. C.W. Robinson, 
of Martin County, N.C. and the remains were interred in Poplar Spring 
Cemetery, the following gentlemen being pallbearers; W.H. Jenkins, J.A. 
Edwards, I.E. Howell, R.S. Fagan, Henry Cobb, and Dr. W.H.L. Goodman. 

Sarah Rebecca Holland, 
struck by lightning, 3 May 1900, at niece's home, Franklin, age 66, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 12*), 5 May 1900, 
"The Suffolk News Herald" (Suffolk, VA), May 11, 1900 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

Her mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Sep. 18, 1942, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/w452g3ob.txt 


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