Could you please tell us which state this occurred in? I remember the earlier mention of Elder Crawford Tucker, but don't recall the location. There must be something about people named Isaac who have religious inclinations. I had a relative named Isaac Tucker, a minister, who was killed by a train in Grayson Co, Ky. On the other side of my family, another minister named Isaac was also killed by a train while walking the tracks and reviewing his notes for his sermon. POLARIS4@aol.com writes: > This is the story of Mr. Isaac Tucker Killed While Going to Church as it > appeared in the Moultrie Weekly Observer, Friday, August 31, 1900, page 4. > > Daughter Julia was my husband's grandmother. (She said the horse was also > killed > although it is not in this article.) If anyone would like a copy of the > article please let me know. > > KILLED BY LIGHTNING > Mr. Isaac Tucker Killed > While Going to Church. > > Mr. Isaac Tucker, one of the county's most popular and progressive young > farmers was killed by lightning about three miles below Autreyville Friday > afternoon. > > Mr. Tucker lives eight miles above Moultrie, and with his daughter, Julia, > was on his way to Harmony church in the lower part of the county, where an > annual meeting was in session. He stopped at the home of a negro named > Henry > Hancock and sought shelter from a rain under the front end of a barn. He > and > his daughter were standing close to each other and he was holding his > horse, > when the fatal stroke came. The current seems to have passed through the > roof > overhead and struck Mr. Tucker in the head cutting the flesh in several > places on the head and neck and killing him instantly. The daughter was > also > stricken to the ground, and did not recover consciousness for many hours. > The > negro, Henry Hancock was standing across the road and witnessed the > occurrence. > > The remains of Mr. Tucker were returned to his home and were buried Sunday > at Bridge Creek cemetery. > > Mr. Tucker was a son of the late Elder Crawford Tucker, famously known as > the father of 32 children. Of the 32, nineteen, (14 boys and 5 girls) > survive > to mourn the tragic death of their brother. > > He leaves a wife and six children also. He was a brother to policeman Noah > > Tucker, deputy sheriff E. W. Tucker, County surveyor, Mathew Tucker, Elder > Ansel Tucker and others of the family who are the best known and most > popular > citizens of the county. >