Ruthis Pamer Greene

GREEN, child -News of a sad accident occurring at Lowell has reached us. Thursday evening of last week during a thunder storm the five year old child of Dr. Green was struck by lightning and almost instantly killed. It had climbed upon the bed within a few inches of its mother and was there when it was so suddenly stricken down and the strange thing about it is that Mrs. Green was comparatively uninjured by the stroke. She experienced a considerable shock however but not serious. On the opposite side of the bed from where the child was laying the railing of the bed was struck and splintered and how Mrs. Green escaped is a miracle. The little child was buried Saturday at Prairie Grove. It is hard to have one of our bright little ones taken from us but when they are snatched away so suddenly without a moments warning and in what seems such a cruel manner the blow is doubly severe. Dr. Green and wife have the sympathy of their Springdale friends in their hour of grief. [The Springdale News 6/12/1891]