{"id":3287,"date":"2024-12-11T14:37:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T20:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/?p=3287"},"modified":"2025-08-22T19:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:39:19","slug":"reece-joel-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/reece-joel-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Reece, Joel M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Death: 13 Jun 1874<br \/>\nSubject: Joel M. Reece<br \/>\nSource: Andrew County Republican, 19 Jun 1874, p. 1<\/p>\n<p>To-day, at about 4 p.m., as Mr. Joseph [sic] Reece was hurrying across a field (Bird Allen&#8217;s place), he was struck by a bolt and instantly killed. His clothing was literally torn into shreds&#8211; not a garment of any kind being left upon him. There was quite a gash cut upon his head; the upper half of his right ear was cut away, and his person severely scorched. He was a widower, having recently lost his companion, and leaves three children, with other near relatives and friends, to mourn his sudden death.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Andrew County Republican, 26 Jun 1874, p. 8<\/p>\n<p>The name of the man who was killed by lightning, mentioned in last week&#8217;s paper, we are informed, was Joel M. Reece, instead of Joseph Reece. His age was forty-one years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Death: 13 Jun 1874 Subject: Joel M. Reece Source: Andrew County Republican, 19 Jun 1874, p. 1 To-day, at about 4 p.m., as Mr. Joseph [sic] Reece was hurrying across a field (Bird Allen&#8217;s place), he was struck by a bolt and instantly killed. His clothing was literally torn into shreds&#8211; not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558,561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew-county","category-people-andrew-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3288,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287\/revisions\/3288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}