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Archie A Ralston

Birth	:	6 Jul 1874 Bourbon County, Kansas, USA
Death	:	23 Jul 1900 Bourbon County, Kansas, USA
Burial	:	Hatch Cemetery, Uniontown, Bourbon County, USA
Coordinate	:	37.8316994, -95.0121994
Inscription	:	Aged 26 Yrs & 17 Ds. Son of JP & LJ Ralston
Description	:	Fort Scott Tribune-Monitor, July 26, 1900 THREE KILLED Lightning Strikes Down Three Young Men Near Redfield. ---------- WERE IN AN OLD COW SHED. Arch Ralston, James Kennedy and Henry Howes are the Victims --Were With a Threshing Machine. From Monday's Daily. Two boys and a middle aged man were instantly killed by lightning a mile south of Redfield and ten miles west of this city about 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. They were Archie Ralston, son of Joe Ralston, a carpenter living in Redfield, James Kennedy and Henry Cowes. The announcement of the triple fatality came to this city about 3 o'clock this afternoon in a telephone message... Read More	Fort Scott Tribune-Monitor, July 26, 1900 THREE KILLED Lightning Strikes Down Three Young Men Near Redfield. ---------- WERE IN AN OLD COW SHED. Arch Ralston, James Kennedy and Henry Howes are the Victims --Were With a Threshing Machine. From Monday's Daily. Two boys and a middle aged man were instantly killed by lightning a mile south of Redfield and ten miles west of this city about 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. They were Archie Ralston, son of Joe Ralston, a carpenter living in Redfield, James Kennedy and Henry Cowes. The announcement of the triple fatality came to this city about 3 o'clock this afternoon in a telephone message from Manager Kellogg of the Bandara quarries to his brother, H.F. Kellogg. No details were then known. At 4 o'clock by a telephone message to Redfield, it was learned that the three men were working at a thrashing machine and when the storm came up, they ran into a cow shed near by and were there instantly killed a few minutes later. Roy Cox, a fourth young man who was with the three was rendered unconscious by the shock but revived and will recover. A telephone message from A.A. Bolinger at 4:30 this afternoon gave the full details. The men were all working at a thresher on Jim Kennedy's farm about ten miles west of town. The four of them ran for the cowshed to get out of the rain and were sitting in it talking when suddenly there came a flash of lightning and a tremendous thunderbolt simultaneously. The lightning appears to have run in the ground under the shed and stricken the men. They all fell instantly. Arch Ralston was the only one of the three who showed any signs of life after he fell. He rolled over and exclaimed, "Oh, Jim!" Young Kennedy was a son of the man on whose place the accident occurred. His hat was torn from his head and his shoes from his feet. There were no other signs of violence on any of the victims. The ground beneath them was torn up by the treacherous element. Men who were on the farm and had taken refuge in another place were immediately attracted to the cow shed and found all four lying prostrate, Dr. Lease was called and found the three dead. Young Cox was soon restored. Henry Howes was a man about forty-five years old. He had been working on Joe Osborn's farm. If he has any relatives there whereabouts are unknown. Young Kennedy was about 20 and Ralston was about 25. He had been working for three years for a neighbor named Cooper.

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Archie A Ralston's memorial is located at: Hatch Cemetery, Uniontown, Bourbon County, USA.
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Archie A Ralston death on 23 Jul 1900 in Bourbon County, Kansas, USA
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Latitude: 37.8316994
Longitude: -95.0121994

Family Members:

Parent

Joseph Porter Ralston

(1847 - 1926)

Luvicy Jane Ward Ralston

(1848 - 1917)

Siblings

David Finis Ralston

(1868 - 1936)

Rhoda Rosetta Ralston Schubert

(1870 - 1953)

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Coordinate: 37.7341995, -95.0888977

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Coordinate: 37.9431480, -95.0603200

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Coordinate: 37.8194008, -95.1791992

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Coordinate: 37.7328000, -94.8956000

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Coordinate: 37.7331500, -95.1430200

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Coordinate: 37.8126335, -95.1922455

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Coordinate: 37.7193985, -94.8792038

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