Edith Bowman Barrett and husband Earl lived in Dayton, Ohio.
They went to Beattyville(Booneville?), Kentucky, to visit Minnie and husband Brad. Edith had a 5 year old son named Earl, Jr., and a 5-month old daughter named Shirley.
Minnie was holding Shirley when the two women decided to go to the garden so Minnie could show Edith her popcorn patch. She started to take baby Shirley with them when her husband suggested that he hold the baby while they went so she handed the baby to him.
While the two women were out in the garden, a sudden short storm blew up. Earl said he heard a loud clap of thunder and saw a bright streak of lightning. The storm blew over, and when the women did not come back to the house, the men went looking for them.
The women were in the corn patch, and the lightning had run along the tops of the corn and burned the tops off.
They had been struck with such force that Minnie had landed hitting the back of her head on a rock and leaving a hole in the back of her head. One of the women still wore her watch which was running, but the watch of the other one had been knocked off and was stopped.
That is how they determined the time of death.
The force of the trauma hitting both women was so bad that one man could not pick up one woman because "it had broken every bone in her body and to try to pick her up felt like a bag that was half full of shelled corn."
So both men picked up Minnie and took her to the house and laid her on the bed and then went back and both carried Edith into the house and laid her beside Minnie.
The bodies were so broken up that they could not show them or could not embalm them. There were no roads there...just horse paths so they pulled the bodies to the cemetery by a horse pulling a sled.
Earl gave Earl, Jr. to Grandma (Hulda Bowman) and Grandpa (George) Barrett and gave Shirley to his sister Linnie and husband Sam. Minnie had 3 children Virgie-19-who had just gotten married when this happened (she ended up naming her first daughter Minnie Louise), Carl and Mildred.
When Mildred was 18 or 19, she married a man named Joyce.
She called her Aunt Grace and told her she was going to California and would call her when she got there and got settled.
That was the last contact she ever had with anyone and no one knew what happened to her.
Even her husband said he did not know what happened to her.
As told by Virginia Barrett, daughter of Ballard Barrett.
Another tragic to John Logan's family.
They went to Beattyville(Booneville?), Kentucky, to visit Minnie and husband Brad. Edith had a 5 year old son named Earl, Jr., and a 5-month old daughter named Shirley.
Minnie was holding Shirley when the two women decided to go to the garden so Minnie could show Edith her popcorn patch. She started to take baby Shirley with them when her husband suggested that he hold the baby while they went so she handed the baby to him.
While the two women were out in the garden, a sudden short storm blew up. Earl said he heard a loud clap of thunder and saw a bright streak of lightning. The storm blew over, and when the women did not come back to the house, the men went looking for them.
The women were in the corn patch, and the lightning had run along the tops of the corn and burned the tops off.
They had been struck with such force that Minnie had landed hitting the back of her head on a rock and leaving a hole in the back of her head. One of the women still wore her watch which was running, but the watch of the other one had been knocked off and was stopped.
That is how they determined the time of death.
The force of the trauma hitting both women was so bad that one man could not pick up one woman because "it had broken every bone in her body and to try to pick her up felt like a bag that was half full of shelled corn."
So both men picked up Minnie and took her to the house and laid her on the bed and then went back and both carried Edith into the house and laid her beside Minnie.
The bodies were so broken up that they could not show them or could not embalm them. There were no roads there...just horse paths so they pulled the bodies to the cemetery by a horse pulling a sled.
Earl gave Earl, Jr. to Grandma (Hulda Bowman) and Grandpa (George) Barrett and gave Shirley to his sister Linnie and husband Sam. Minnie had 3 children Virgie-19-who had just gotten married when this happened (she ended up naming her first daughter Minnie Louise), Carl and Mildred.
When Mildred was 18 or 19, she married a man named Joyce.
She called her Aunt Grace and told her she was going to California and would call her when she got there and got settled.
That was the last contact she ever had with anyone and no one knew what happened to her.
Even her husband said he did not know what happened to her.
As told by Virginia Barrett, daughter of Ballard Barrett.
Another tragic to John Logan's family.
Edith Bowman Barrett and husband Earl lived in Dayton, Ohio.
They went to Beattyville(Booneville?), Kentucky, to visit Minnie and husband Brad. Edith had a 5 year old son named Earl, Jr., and a 5-month old daughter named Shirley.
Minnie was holding Shirley when the two women decided to go to the garden so Minnie could show Edith her popcorn patch. She started to take baby Shirley with them when her husband suggested that he hold the baby while they went so she handed the baby to him.
While the two women were out in the garden, a sudden short storm blew up. Earl said he heard a loud clap of thunder and saw a bright streak of lightning. The storm blew over, and when the women did not come back to the house, the men went looking for them.
The women were in the corn patch, and the lightning had run along the tops of the corn and burned the tops off.
They had been struck with such force that Minnie had landed hitting the back of her head on a rock and leaving a hole in the back of her head. One of the women still wore her watch which was running, but the watch of the other one had been knocked off and was stopped.
That is how they determined the time of death.
The force of the trauma hitting both women was so bad that one man could not pick up one woman because "it had broken every bone in her body and to try to pick her up felt like a bag that was half full of shelled corn."
So both men picked up Minnie and took her to the house and laid her on the bed and then went back and both carried Edith into the house and laid her beside Minnie.
The bodies were so broken up that they could not show them or could not embalm them. There were no roads there...just horse paths so they pulled the bodies to the cemetery by a horse pulling a sled.
Earl gave Earl, Jr. to Grandma (Hulda Bowman) and Grandpa (George) Barrett and gave Shirley to his sister Linnie and husband Sam. Minnie had 3 children Virgie-19-who had just gotten married when this happened (she ended up naming her first daughter Minnie Louise), Carl and Mildred.
When Mildred was 18 or 19, she married a man named Joyce.
She called her Aunt Grace and told her she was going to California and would call her when she got there and got settled.
That was the last contact she ever had with anyone and no one knew what happened to her.
Even her husband said he did not know what happened to her.
As told by Virginia Barrett, daughter of Ballard Barrett.
Another tragic to John Logan's family.
They went to Beattyville(Booneville?), Kentucky, to visit Minnie and husband Brad. Edith had a 5 year old son named Earl, Jr., and a 5-month old daughter named Shirley.
Minnie was holding Shirley when the two women decided to go to the garden so Minnie could show Edith her popcorn patch. She started to take baby Shirley with them when her husband suggested that he hold the baby while they went so she handed the baby to him.
While the two women were out in the garden, a sudden short storm blew up. Earl said he heard a loud clap of thunder and saw a bright streak of lightning. The storm blew over, and when the women did not come back to the house, the men went looking for them.
The women were in the corn patch, and the lightning had run along the tops of the corn and burned the tops off.
They had been struck with such force that Minnie had landed hitting the back of her head on a rock and leaving a hole in the back of her head. One of the women still wore her watch which was running, but the watch of the other one had been knocked off and was stopped.
That is how they determined the time of death.
The force of the trauma hitting both women was so bad that one man could not pick up one woman because "it had broken every bone in her body and to try to pick her up felt like a bag that was half full of shelled corn."
So both men picked up Minnie and took her to the house and laid her on the bed and then went back and both carried Edith into the house and laid her beside Minnie.
The bodies were so broken up that they could not show them or could not embalm them. There were no roads there...just horse paths so they pulled the bodies to the cemetery by a horse pulling a sled.
Earl gave Earl, Jr. to Grandma (Hulda Bowman) and Grandpa (George) Barrett and gave Shirley to his sister Linnie and husband Sam. Minnie had 3 children Virgie-19-who had just gotten married when this happened (she ended up naming her first daughter Minnie Louise), Carl and Mildred.
When Mildred was 18 or 19, she married a man named Joyce.
She called her Aunt Grace and told her she was going to California and would call her when she got there and got settled.
That was the last contact she ever had with anyone and no one knew what happened to her.
Even her husband said he did not know what happened to her.
As told by Virginia Barrett, daughter of Ballard Barrett.
Another tragic to John Logan's family.
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