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From: Lisa Perry <>
Subject: [MOMONROE] NBC: Tuttle
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 23:22:54 -0400

Untitled, undated article; probably from the Madison Times. Extracted
from the newspaper article collection started in 1879 by Mrs. Nannie
Brown of Madison, Missouri.



"The sad news reached here Saturday afternoon that Mrs. B.F. Tuttle, a
former resident of Madison, had been suddenly killed by a stroke of
lightning, at her home near Ash, at about three o'clock that afternoon.
It seems that the family had been eating a melon, and that a cloud,
threatening rain drove the other members into the house, but that Mrs.
Tuttle remained out in the yard, under a plum bush, eating of the melon.




There was a vivid flash of lightning, followed quickly by a loud clap of
thunder, and those who had gone into the house looked around for wife
and mother and not seeing her, went back into the yard and found her a
corpse. The lightning evidently struck her head first and went on down
the body, as her face and breast were badly burned. Mrs. Tuttle was a
woman of perhaps fifty-five or sixty years of age and was well known to
the people of Madison and vicinity, all of whom regret to learn of her
death, and join the Times in heartfelt sympathy for those she leaves
behind."



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