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Several days into her stay in the Hospital, a roommate read her an account of the tornado from a local paper, including the list of fatalities which said, “Elizabeth Browning of Woodville.” Young Elizabeth said matterof-factly, “That’s me.” Mrs. Graves recalls that the subject was promptly dropped. “I couldn’t see well enough at the time to read and I never got to see the article myself.”
Reviewing Woodville
Damage
In a stripe through the middle of Woodville, the tornado destroyed and damaged homes, churches and other buildings. Among the most frequently remembered are the churches.
The Episcopal church, apparently the first hit, was completely destroyed, and the walls were ripped away from the Baptist Church. The Methodist congregation attended services afterwards in the church building set back on its foundation. Of the churches in Woodville, only Shiloh Baptist escaped damage.
i Rescuers found Mrs, Cora Botts, a deaf and nearly blind invalid, safe in her room, the only part of her home which was not destroyed. Her daughter’s bedroom directly above Mrs. Bott’s contained a “ring tree” on the dresser. The diamond ring of Lucy Botts King was recovered, undisturbed by the tornado, from its place on a limb of the ring tree. Horses belonging to the
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