Liza McClammy Killed by Lightning Strike, June 26, 1924

Warsaw, June 26—During a severe thunder and rain storm Monday afternoon, a negro woman named Liza McClammy was struck by lightning and instantly killed.

The woman, who did washing at a number of homes in the town, had sought refuge from the storm in the house of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Stokes, and was on the porch when lightning struck a large tree nearby and damaged the house by tearing the porch, plaster and laths, struck the woman, but did not injure any member of the Stokes family.

From the front page of the Lincoln County News, Lincolnton, N.C., June 30, 1924