Barn Burner

Evidently, the church incident was not Martin's only fire incident during his youth. In fact, it was only the tip of the iceberg. The "Soul of Fire" entry got his wife to give us a couple more leads for other occurrences that Martin had not shared with us yet. Thanks Adena!

The next incident occurred within a year after the church incident. Martin's family lived on a farm which included a barn. Apparently, there was no power to the barn, so a kerosene lamp was used for lighting. One evening Martin left the barn and closed the door behind him, however, he had difficulty closing the door and slammed it in order to get it shut. This, apparently, knocked the lamp off of the wall without him knowing.

A little while later they looked out of the window and saw that the barn was on fire. The barn suffered the same fate as the church did earlier that year.