LANE, Rebecca Ada

Prescott Journal Miner, Prescott, Arizona Friday, August 4, 1916, page 3, column 3 Woman Killed By Lightening In Farmyard Second Death In Week From Severe Electrical Storms; Four Girls Are Motherless Struck by lightening while closing the farmyard gate, Mrs. Frank M. Lane, of Skull valley was instantly killed Wednesday night shortly after dusk. Mrs. Lane had left her four daughters, ranging in age from two to sixteen years, in the house while she went out into the yard to attend to the evening chores during a severe electrical storm. Transcriber's note: Mrs. Lane is buried in an unknown and unmarked grave site at the Citizens Cemetery in Prescott, Arizona. All through the night the children did not know where their mother was and yesterday morning when the eldest daughter started in search, she found her dead at the gate about 200 feet from the house. The girl then ran to Skull valley station more than a mile away and notified the authorities there, who in turn notified Chas. H. McLane, coroner. Coroner McLane and jury left for the scene of the fatality shortly after eight o'clock yesterday morning. In the investigation, the jury found that Mrs. Lane was seriously burned but that the bolt had struck the back of her head and continued down her body, ripping off the left shoe. Her back and dress were burned in several places. Mrs. Lane was 39 years old and leaves a husband and four daughters. The family was living on a Skull Valley dry farm. When Frank Lane, the husband, who is employed at Humboldt, was notified, he immediately came to Prescott, arriving here yesterday afternoon. The children of the family have been cared for by neighbors. The body is at Ruffner's mortuary and funeral services will be held at 5 o'clock this afternoon.