"Killed By Lightning"
Henry Himmerlein, aged 20 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Himmerlein, who lived two miles west of Stuttgart, was killed by lightning last Friday afternoon. The young man was at work harvesting wheat on the farm his father owns in Belmont township when the storm came up that day. With a younger brother they had put the teams in the barn and had started out in the pasture to get up another team. Henry was a short distance ahead of his brother and close to the fence when the bolt of lightning descended which caused his instant death.
The younger boy was knocked down and considerably stunned but was soon able to get his bearings and when he reached the side of his brother Henry it was to find that he had been killed. This is the seventh child that the Himmerlein family has lost, and this last blow is keenly felt by them. In their sad hour they have the sympathy of the entire community.
Mr. Himmerlein and M. G. Bach came to Phillipsburg Saturday morning to procure a casket to encase the reamins of the deceased, and from the latter gentlemen we learned that the funeral was to be conducted Sunday forenoon at 10 o'clock from the German church esast of Stuttgart, interment being made in the cemetery at that place.
Source: Phillipsburg News
Thursday, July 18, 1907
Obituary Courtesy of Mike Grau, #47118647
Henry Himmerlein, aged 20 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Himmerlein, who lived two miles west of Stuttgart, was killed by lightning last Friday afternoon. The young man was at work harvesting wheat on the farm his father owns in Belmont township when the storm came up that day. With a younger brother they had put the teams in the barn and had started out in the pasture to get up another team. Henry was a short distance ahead of his brother and close to the fence when the bolt of lightning descended which caused his instant death.
The younger boy was knocked down and considerably stunned but was soon able to get his bearings and when he reached the side of his brother Henry it was to find that he had been killed. This is the seventh child that the Himmerlein family has lost, and this last blow is keenly felt by them. In their sad hour they have the sympathy of the entire community.
Mr. Himmerlein and M. G. Bach came to Phillipsburg Saturday morning to procure a casket to encase the reamins of the deceased, and from the latter gentlemen we learned that the funeral was to be conducted Sunday forenoon at 10 o'clock from the German church esast of Stuttgart, interment being made in the cemetery at that place.
Source: Phillipsburg News
Thursday, July 18, 1907
Obituary Courtesy of Mike Grau, #47118647
"Killed By Lightning"
Henry Himmerlein, aged 20 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Himmerlein, who lived two miles west of Stuttgart, was killed by lightning last Friday afternoon. The young man was at work harvesting wheat on the farm his father owns in Belmont township when the storm came up that day. With a younger brother they had put the teams in the barn and had started out in the pasture to get up another team. Henry was a short distance ahead of his brother and close to the fence when the bolt of lightning descended which caused his instant death.
The younger boy was knocked down and considerably stunned but was soon able to get his bearings and when he reached the side of his brother Henry it was to find that he had been killed. This is the seventh child that the Himmerlein family has lost, and this last blow is keenly felt by them. In their sad hour they have the sympathy of the entire community.
Mr. Himmerlein and M. G. Bach came to Phillipsburg Saturday morning to procure a casket to encase the reamins of the deceased, and from the latter gentlemen we learned that the funeral was to be conducted Sunday forenoon at 10 o'clock from the German church esast of Stuttgart, interment being made in the cemetery at that place.
Source: Phillipsburg News
Thursday, July 18, 1907
Obituary Courtesy of Mike Grau, #47118647
Henry Himmerlein, aged 20 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Himmerlein, who lived two miles west of Stuttgart, was killed by lightning last Friday afternoon. The young man was at work harvesting wheat on the farm his father owns in Belmont township when the storm came up that day. With a younger brother they had put the teams in the barn and had started out in the pasture to get up another team. Henry was a short distance ahead of his brother and close to the fence when the bolt of lightning descended which caused his instant death.
The younger boy was knocked down and considerably stunned but was soon able to get his bearings and when he reached the side of his brother Henry it was to find that he had been killed. This is the seventh child that the Himmerlein family has lost, and this last blow is keenly felt by them. In their sad hour they have the sympathy of the entire community.
Mr. Himmerlein and M. G. Bach came to Phillipsburg Saturday morning to procure a casket to encase the reamins of the deceased, and from the latter gentlemen we learned that the funeral was to be conducted Sunday forenoon at 10 o'clock from the German church esast of Stuttgart, interment being made in the cemetery at that place.
Source: Phillipsburg News
Thursday, July 18, 1907
Obituary Courtesy of Mike Grau, #47118647
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