Ferguson, Mrs. Michael (Susan) 1851-1884

FERGUSON

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Date: 11/12/2008 at 12:51:47

LeMars Sentinel newspaper
Dated May 15, 1891

PIONEER DAYS IN PLYMOUTH COUNTY
An Historic Account Of The Early Settlement, Organization, and
Subsequent Development of the County by Townships

CHAPTER XIV
AMERICA TOWNSHIP
Origin of the Name-When Constituted-Boundary-General
Topography-Population-Early Settlement-Capt. Betsworth-Events of
Interest-Religious-Educational-Terrible Accidents-Post Office and Other
History.

By W. L. Clark

FATAL ACCIDENTS
(Gleaned from Sentinel file)

During a thunderstorm of unusual severity, July 21, 1884, Mrs. Michael
Ferguson, in Foster's addition in LeMars, was standing in the yard of
her residence, feeding some chickens, when she was struck by lightening
and instantly dropped dead. The side of her head and her breast were
burned to a crisp. A near neighbor, seeing her fall, supposed she had
slipped down, and at once went to help her up, when to her astonishment
she found the poor creature dead and badly mutilated by the electric
shock. Her husband was engineer at the roller mills.
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Sioux City Journal
Tuesday, July 22, 1884
Page 2

STORM AT LE MARS.
LE MARS, Io., July 21.—Special to the Journal:
The storm this afternoon was terrible, lightning instantly killing Mrs. Ferguson. The school-house was struck. The damage to the building was slight.
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RESEARCH NOTES:
Susan Ferguson buried LeMars Catholic Cemetery.