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- Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, August 18, 1870 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - A sad accident occurred in this town on Monday, August 8th, at about 2 o'clock p.m. A Mrs. Elizabeth Kelley, who has for some time past resided with her father, Mr. Alexander Martin, of this town, left the house shortly after dinner to pick some berries. She had picked but a short time when a violent thunderstorm came on and she made haste to reach the house. Her father and mother were anxiously watching her return, and when about 20 rods distant from the house, a tremendous crash was heard. Mr. and Mrs. Martin were partially stunned by the shop. On recovery, Mr. Martin looked for his daughter, and not seeing her, he at once past out of the house and around the corner of a fence that was New York, and there he found Mrs. Kelly dead, lying with her face to the ground. On examination, he found that the electric current struck her on her right breast, passing downward to the wrist of the right hand, and from that to her foot, tearing the shoe on that foot to _, the current then passing into the earth. My future remains shortly after they had been brought to the house, and could discover no discolorations except on her right cheek, which probably will was caused by her following face downward. It is supposed that the electric current was attracted by a new pan that she had in front of her with her left hand containing her berries. Mrs. Kelly was 22 years of age and leaves a husband and a little boy some eighteen months old, as well as an aged father and mother, upon whom this unexpected dispensation of Providence will fall was unusual severity. Mr. and Mrs. Martin, have now lost their all, as Elizabeth was the last and only child living up to this date of a family of 14 children. Redfield, August 13, 1870.
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Abt 1848 - 1870 (22 years)