This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hurt, Anderson, Stamper, Ray, Simpson, Long, Newby, Tudor Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xAB.2ACI/2149 Message Board Post: Following article found in ggrandmother's (Susan Waldridge Hurt) scrapbook. There is no date. The following is taken form the Lexington Leader of the 27th. "Moses Ray, the huckster who was severely injured by the dynamite explosion on Water Street early Wednesday morning, and who is now on the way to recovery, seems to bear a charmed life, judging from the way he has successfully dodged disaster in the past. Mr. Ray is a native of Garrard county, where several years aago the house in which he was stopping during a thunderstorm was struck by lightning and he was knocked unconcious by the effect of the bolt and picked up for dead. He soon recovered, however, and went about his business. Some time after this he was waywaid by an enemy and struck in the head, the blow rendering him senseless and leaving an ugly scar on him, which he still carries as a souvenir of the attack. After lightning and malice had done their worst, and had apparently left him unscathed, Fate a few days ago tried the effects of dynamite on him, and while Mr. Ray was badly stunned and severely cut and bruised about the head and the face by the explosion, he says that he is a very "live corpse" yet. Mose Ray above referred to, or Mose Judson as he is better known here in his old home, left Garrard county about nine years ago together with his brother James Judson, and both have since made their home in Lexington. Mose's career in Garrard county was a tempestuous one, and his exploits and the things which befell him while a resident here would fill a book of considersable size. His latest exploit was to kick over a can of nitro glycerine which he found in an old shed, and the explosion which followed would have blown a less lucky man to Kingdom Come, but the above article shows that Mose was born under a lucky star and it will take something more powerful than nitro-glycerine to end his career". Wonder what else happened to him? Sandy