Clarence Jeffery Hall (1908-1934)

HALL, BORWICK, OLSON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/21/2021 at 16:06:32

From Nevada Evening Journal September 18, 1934 (page 1)

ROLAND FARMER LIGHTNING VICTIM

CLARENCE HALL, 26, MET TRAGIC DEATH WHILE WORKING IN FIELD

Special to the Journal.
Roland, Sept. 18--Clarence Hall, 26, young farmer of northeast of Roland, is dead today as a result of being struck by a bolt of lightning during an electrical storm, about 5:00 p. m. Monday.

The three rear horses in a five-horse team he was driving to a gang plow were also killed.

It was a brother-in-law Henry Borwick who noticed the tangle of the horses hitched to the plow in the field and when he went out to investigate, found the badly burned body of Hall and three rear horses.

Hall and his bride of a year had been making their home with his father Chris Hall, widower, but had rented another farm for the coming year.

When killed he was plowing in a field belonging to Mrs. Swenson, grandmother of his wife.

He leaves besides his wife and father, one brother and three sisters. They are Jesse Hall of Ames, Mrs. Henry Borwick and Mrs. Magnus Olson of Roland and Miss Agnes Hall of Des Moines.