12 Sept 1901, Mineola, wood, Texas
"The Lightning's Terrible Work.
HUSBAND, WIFE, BABE
J. M. Shirey, Wife and Youngst Child Killed Instantly--Others Badly Shocked--Well Known and Good People
News reached town at 7 o'clock yesterday evening that Mr. J. M. Shire and his wife, Mrs. Ella Shirey, and their youngest child, a baby boy 18 months old, had been stuck by lighning and all three killed, during the storm in the afternoon, sometime between 5 and 6 o'clock. Mr. W. N. Shirey, a brother, who lives near the city and is a salesman with the Mineola Mercantile Company, left for his brother's home immediately.
From particulars learned today, it seems that the entire family consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Shirey and their seven children and two children from a neighbor's home, were in the family sitting room at Mr. Shirey's home, when the lightning struck the house. The deat-dealing curent first struck the building between a chimney and a window. Mr. Shirey was standing near the window at the very place where the lightning entered on its deadly mission. He fell dead. His wife, with the baby in her arms, was sitting on the edge of a bed on the opposite side of the room. Both were killed. All the others were badly shocked. Two of the Shirey children were very badly socked, and one of them, a girl, considerably burned. The older ones, as soon as they recovered, gave the alarm and as fast as possible the neighbors were notified of the awful calamity that had befallen the family. They flocked to the house, many of them to witness the most heart-rending scenes it had ever been their misfortune to confront.
Mr. John Marida Shirey was well known in Mineola. He at one time lived in the edge of town and clerked in a store here for a good while. He was a good man, a Christian gentleman. He was a native of Alabama, and came to Wood County 8 years ago. About a year ago he bought the Bridges farm about 10 miles northeast of Mineola. and was living there contented and happy when he met his sudden and tragic death. Fifteen years ago in Alabama he married Miss Ella Hughes. She was a noble woman, a member with her husband, of the Baptist Church. Mr. Shirey was in the 37th year of his age, having been born May 13, 1865. His wife was younger. They leave six orphan children--all young from 14 down.
As we go to press with The News, this afternoon at 4 o'clock, out yonder at the old country burying ground near the Big Springs old church house, there are assembled these broken hearted little children with their sorrowing and weeping relations, and their neighbors, and friends with aching and sympanthetic hearts, all looking down through their tears into two open graves--one for the mortal remains of J. M. Shirey, the husband and father, the other for the mortal remains of the wife and mother. Ella Shire, with her chld on her bosom in death's cold embrace. O, what a scene! God pity them all--the living we mean; for the souls of the dead ones are already in His loving presence."
"The Lightning's Terrible Work.
HUSBAND, WIFE, BABE
J. M. Shirey, Wife and Youngst Child Killed Instantly--Others Badly Shocked--Well Known and Good People
News reached town at 7 o'clock yesterday evening that Mr. J. M. Shire and his wife, Mrs. Ella Shirey, and their youngest child, a baby boy 18 months old, had been stuck by lighning and all three killed, during the storm in the afternoon, sometime between 5 and 6 o'clock. Mr. W. N. Shirey, a brother, who lives near the city and is a salesman with the Mineola Mercantile Company, left for his brother's home immediately.
From particulars learned today, it seems that the entire family consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Shirey and their seven children and two children from a neighbor's home, were in the family sitting room at Mr. Shirey's home, when the lightning struck the house. The deat-dealing curent first struck the building between a chimney and a window. Mr. Shirey was standing near the window at the very place where the lightning entered on its deadly mission. He fell dead. His wife, with the baby in her arms, was sitting on the edge of a bed on the opposite side of the room. Both were killed. All the others were badly shocked. Two of the Shirey children were very badly socked, and one of them, a girl, considerably burned. The older ones, as soon as they recovered, gave the alarm and as fast as possible the neighbors were notified of the awful calamity that had befallen the family. They flocked to the house, many of them to witness the most heart-rending scenes it had ever been their misfortune to confront.
Mr. John Marida Shirey was well known in Mineola. He at one time lived in the edge of town and clerked in a store here for a good while. He was a good man, a Christian gentleman. He was a native of Alabama, and came to Wood County 8 years ago. About a year ago he bought the Bridges farm about 10 miles northeast of Mineola. and was living there contented and happy when he met his sudden and tragic death. Fifteen years ago in Alabama he married Miss Ella Hughes. She was a noble woman, a member with her husband, of the Baptist Church. Mr. Shirey was in the 37th year of his age, having been born May 13, 1865. His wife was younger. They leave six orphan children--all young from 14 down.
As we go to press with The News, this afternoon at 4 o'clock, out yonder at the old country burying ground near the Big Springs old church house, there are assembled these broken hearted little children with their sorrowing and weeping relations, and their neighbors, and friends with aching and sympanthetic hearts, all looking down through their tears into two open graves--one for the mortal remains of J. M. Shirey, the husband and father, the other for the mortal remains of the wife and mother. Ella Shire, with her chld on her bosom in death's cold embrace. O, what a scene! God pity them all--the living we mean; for the souls of the dead ones are already in His loving presence."
12 Sept 1901, Mineola, wood, Texas
"The Lightning's Terrible Work.
HUSBAND, WIFE, BABE
J. M. Shirey, Wife and Youngst Child Killed Instantly--Others Badly Shocked--Well Known and Good People
News reached town at 7 o'clock yesterday evening that Mr. J. M. Shire and his wife, Mrs. Ella Shirey, and their youngest child, a baby boy 18 months old, had been stuck by lighning and all three killed, during the storm in the afternoon, sometime between 5 and 6 o'clock. Mr. W. N. Shirey, a brother, who lives near the city and is a salesman with the Mineola Mercantile Company, left for his brother's home immediately.
From particulars learned today, it seems that the entire family consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Shirey and their seven children and two children from a neighbor's home, were in the family sitting room at Mr. Shirey's home, when the lightning struck the house. The deat-dealing curent first struck the building between a chimney and a window. Mr. Shirey was standing near the window at the very place where the lightning entered on its deadly mission. He fell dead. His wife, with the baby in her arms, was sitting on the edge of a bed on the opposite side of the room. Both were killed. All the others were badly shocked. Two of the Shirey children were very badly socked, and one of them, a girl, considerably burned. The older ones, as soon as they recovered, gave the alarm and as fast as possible the neighbors were notified of the awful calamity that had befallen the family. They flocked to the house, many of them to witness the most heart-rending scenes it had ever been their misfortune to confront.
Mr. John Marida Shirey was well known in Mineola. He at one time lived in the edge of town and clerked in a store here for a good while. He was a good man, a Christian gentleman. He was a native of Alabama, and came to Wood County 8 years ago. About a year ago he bought the Bridges farm about 10 miles northeast of Mineola. and was living there contented and happy when he met his sudden and tragic death. Fifteen years ago in Alabama he married Miss Ella Hughes. She was a noble woman, a member with her husband, of the Baptist Church. Mr. Shirey was in the 37th year of his age, having been born May 13, 1865. His wife was younger. They leave six orphan children--all young from 14 down.
As we go to press with The News, this afternoon at 4 o'clock, out yonder at the old country burying ground near the Big Springs old church house, there are assembled these broken hearted little children with their sorrowing and weeping relations, and their neighbors, and friends with aching and sympanthetic hearts, all looking down through their tears into two open graves--one for the mortal remains of J. M. Shirey, the husband and father, the other for the mortal remains of the wife and mother. Ella Shire, with her chld on her bosom in death's cold embrace. O, what a scene! God pity them all--the living we mean; for the souls of the dead ones are already in His loving presence."
"The Lightning's Terrible Work.
HUSBAND, WIFE, BABE
J. M. Shirey, Wife and Youngst Child Killed Instantly--Others Badly Shocked--Well Known and Good People
News reached town at 7 o'clock yesterday evening that Mr. J. M. Shire and his wife, Mrs. Ella Shirey, and their youngest child, a baby boy 18 months old, had been stuck by lighning and all three killed, during the storm in the afternoon, sometime between 5 and 6 o'clock. Mr. W. N. Shirey, a brother, who lives near the city and is a salesman with the Mineola Mercantile Company, left for his brother's home immediately.
From particulars learned today, it seems that the entire family consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Shirey and their seven children and two children from a neighbor's home, were in the family sitting room at Mr. Shirey's home, when the lightning struck the house. The deat-dealing curent first struck the building between a chimney and a window. Mr. Shirey was standing near the window at the very place where the lightning entered on its deadly mission. He fell dead. His wife, with the baby in her arms, was sitting on the edge of a bed on the opposite side of the room. Both were killed. All the others were badly shocked. Two of the Shirey children were very badly socked, and one of them, a girl, considerably burned. The older ones, as soon as they recovered, gave the alarm and as fast as possible the neighbors were notified of the awful calamity that had befallen the family. They flocked to the house, many of them to witness the most heart-rending scenes it had ever been their misfortune to confront.
Mr. John Marida Shirey was well known in Mineola. He at one time lived in the edge of town and clerked in a store here for a good while. He was a good man, a Christian gentleman. He was a native of Alabama, and came to Wood County 8 years ago. About a year ago he bought the Bridges farm about 10 miles northeast of Mineola. and was living there contented and happy when he met his sudden and tragic death. Fifteen years ago in Alabama he married Miss Ella Hughes. She was a noble woman, a member with her husband, of the Baptist Church. Mr. Shirey was in the 37th year of his age, having been born May 13, 1865. His wife was younger. They leave six orphan children--all young from 14 down.
As we go to press with The News, this afternoon at 4 o'clock, out yonder at the old country burying ground near the Big Springs old church house, there are assembled these broken hearted little children with their sorrowing and weeping relations, and their neighbors, and friends with aching and sympanthetic hearts, all looking down through their tears into two open graves--one for the mortal remains of J. M. Shirey, the husband and father, the other for the mortal remains of the wife and mother. Ella Shire, with her chld on her bosom in death's cold embrace. O, what a scene! God pity them all--the living we mean; for the souls of the dead ones are already in His loving presence."
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