This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Koontz, Lueck, Morgan, Yates, Zimmerman Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1355.1 Message Board Post: Killed By Lighting John Lueck Struck Dead at Homs. John Lueck, an industrous young German who was recently married to Miss Carrie Zimmerman, of this city, was instantly killed by lightning at his home fourteen miles north of Hutchinson, about 11 o’clock Sunday evening during the thunderstorm. Mrs. Lueck had retired and her husband was seated near the bedside, while his mother was attending to some household matters in another part of the room when the summons came. Mrs. Lueck heard the chimney crash on the roof when she called to her husband. Receiving no response the wife went to her husband and found that he was dead. He never spoke nor moved after the fatal shock. Neither of the ladies were injured and the only evidence of the thunderbolt about the building was the demolishing of the chimney. The deceased was an honest industrious young man. The young widow is bowed down with grief and receives the sympathy of everyone. The Interiour Hutchinson, Kansas Thursday, July 12, 1877 page – 3 *** column – 2 --------------------------- (Reno County Obituary Info on index card on file at the Hutchinson Public Library) John Lueck – d: 8 Jul 1877 *** (newspaper) The Interiour – 12 July 1877 (contacted the three cemeteries in Hutchinson. John Lueck was not buried at any of them ) ------------------------------ Cemetery Records for Reno County Kansas 1865 – 1978 (book) Eastside Cemetery Clay Twsp. Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas (Tombstone Reading: all have identical markers & Gertrude is buried between Caroline & Harvey) Caroline Zimmerman Lueck – 21 Oct 1858 Germany – 8 Feb 1930 Gertrude Koontz Morgan Yates – 4 Feb 1879 – 24 Aug 1955 Harvey Koontz – 31 Mar 1881 – 12 Feb 1919