Hiram Brooks was killed by lightning in August, 1851. John Brooks had told his younger brothers, Hiram and David, who had just settled near him, that he would give each of them a sow and pigs, and told them where to find the swine. They went early in the morning to where the hogs were, found them, and got them in front of John's house. A storm was just beginning, and John was on the point of telling them to go into the house, when a stroke of lightning knocked David senseless, killed Hiram, and finished by killing four of the pigs. As the bolt left Hiram's gun, it melted a drop off the muzzle, where it was left as a permanent mark of its murderous track. David was restored to consciousness, but it was some time before his memory was fully restored.
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