{"id":338,"date":"2025-05-10T03:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T03:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/?p=338"},"modified":"2025-05-10T03:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T03:26:14","slug":"mary-spurgeon-struck-and-killed-by-lightening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/2025\/05\/10\/mary-spurgeon-struck-and-killed-by-lightening\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Spurgeon Struck and Killed by Lightening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Originally posted 25 MAR 2012)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Albany (NY) Evening Journal, May 31, 1860, p. 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Salem, Indiana, May 24th, the residence of Joseph Spurgeon was struck by lightning killing instantly his daughter, Mary, aged thirteen years, who was lying in bed asleep at the time.<br>____________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Special thanks to Randi Richardson for this and many others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted 25 MAR 2012) Albany (NY) Evening Journal, May 31, 1860, p. 2. At Salem, Indiana, May 24th, the residence of Joseph Spurgeon was struck by lightning killing instantly his daughter, Mary, aged thirteen years, who was lying in bed asleep at the time.____________ Special thanks to Randi Richardson for this and many others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}