Cullman County AlArchives Obituaries.....Lindsey, Ruby June 1939
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"The Cleburne News"
Heflin, Cleburne Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, JUNE 15, 1939

GIRL IS KILLED AS LIGHTNING STRIKES HOE SHE CARRIES

Cullman, Ala.

Struck by a bolt of lightning which traveled down the hoe she carried over 
her shoulder as she scampered for home to avoid last week's storm, Ruby 
Lindsey, 14 year old attractive girl of the Goodhope community, five miles 
from here, was fatally injured. Jasper Lindsey, father of the dead girl, 
reported to authorities that his daughter and a neighbor youth had been 
hoeing in a field when the storm struck. Both started to run for shelter, 
the boy several feet distant from the girl. Suddenly there was a loud crack, 
and the girl fell, the hoe handle spintered and the girl fell unconscious to 
the ground. The left side of her face and hair were badly burned. The boy 
was uninjured.

Additional Comments:
Alabama Deaths, 1908-59 
Name: Ruby Lindsey 
Death Date: Jun 1939 
Death County: Cullman  
Volume: 30  
Certificate: 14585  
Roll: 3  

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