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killed.” Mrs. Corbin told him to come in out of the storm. She suggested he sit down by the chimney, warm himself by the stove, and calm down.
The stones from the chimney fell on Mr. Settle when the tornado hit. Although Mrs. Corbin was able to move the stones and rescue Mr. Settle, he died several days later from his injuries. Mrs. Corbin’s baby was found away from the house safely covered by an orange crate. Her 3-year-old son was blown into the closet under the stairway which was the only part of the house left standing. He was not hurt.
The last Rappahannock victims were a woman and young child living on Ben Venue farm. From Ben Venue, the tornado jumped into Fauquier County. It claimed more victims in the Catlett area there.
The Healing Begins Where St. Paul’s Episcopal Church communion table had stood, a marker was erected. Harry Stephenson says, “Jock Brown pointed out to me that the date on the inscription is wrong (May 3), but I told him it didn’t matter that much.” The parishoners did not build another church at Woodville. The Baptist Church was restored and in time, the Methodist Church was righted on its foundation.
Mrs. Cora Bott’s family built a new home on the original site. It is now the home of Mrs. Henry Wood Sr. and family.
A new, single story school was built on the same hill in Woodville. Undaunted, Elizabeth Browning Graves rode horseback the two miles from her home to school that fall of 1929. She had spent two months in Fauquier Hospital overcoming major injuries. The ninth day of her confinement, doctors diagnosed the additional complication of lockjaw.
After a week at home, she was hospitalized at the University of Virginia
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