Oops, you must have missed the e-mail that this was a hoax -- a made-up
person, death, etc - scary isn't it that a newspaperman would make that
up. Grrrr
You might want to read "The Rest of the Story" below his obit :)
Karen
Questions-
1- any mention who the "married daughter" was?
2- Are we sure about the date?
My relative Priscilla Segerka Grover (Married Johannes (John) Mick was from Maryland, and
lived in Newtown area but died in 1854 and is buried in MeHarry cemetery.
Jud
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-----Original Message-----
From: Patricia Kantzer<mkdoc(a)roadrunner.com>
To: infounta<infounta(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thu, Feb 2, 2012 3:24 pm
Subject: Re: [InFounta] WOW -- what an interesting way to go -- thanks to Ginny for
finding this one for us
Wow is right sure is a different way to go.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Zach"<karen.zach(a)sbcglobal.net>
To:<INFOUNta@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 1:58 PM
Subject: [InFounta] WOW -- what an interesting way to go -- thanks to Ginny
for finding this one for us
> Source: Logansport Daily Journal - 17 January 1879 p 4
>
> A Covington, Ind., special dispatch to the Indianapolis Journal, dated
> the 15th, gives the following account of a most extraordinary
> occurrence.On Tuesday night last, Leonidas Grover, who resided in the
> vicinity of Newtown, Fountain county, met his death in a way that is
> probably without a parallel in this or any other country.Mr. Grover was
> a widower, living on a farm with a married daughter and her husband.On
> the evening referred to the married couple had been absent on a visit to
> some neighbors, and upon returning at a late hour, entered the house,
> finding everything, to all appearance, in usual order, and supposing
> that Mr. Grover had already retired, went to bed themselves.Next morning
> the daughter arose, and having prepared breakfast, went to the adjoining
> room to call her father, and was horrified to find him lying upon his
> shattered bed, a mutilated corpse.Her screams brought the husband
> quickly to the bedroom, and an inspection disclosed a ragged opening in
> the roof, directly over the breast of the unfortunate man, which was
> torn through as if by a canon shot, and extending downward through the
> bedding and floor; other holes showed the direction taken by the deadly
> missile.Subsequent search revealed the fact that the awful calamity was
> caused by the fall of a meteoric stone.The stone itself, pyramidal in
> shape, and weighing twenty pounds and a few ounces, avoirdupois, and
> stained with blood, was unearthed from a depth of nearly five feet, thus
> showing the fearful impetus with which it struck the dwelling.The
> position of the corpse, with other surroundings, when found, showed that
> the victim was asleep when stricken, and that death, to him, was painless.
>
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