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Harold Brown
“I remember the tornado. I was in Culpeper at the bank and when the thing happened, my brother Rhodes Brown was out at Woodville at the store. When it happened that afternoon, the torrential, muddy rain, he got up where the telephone wire was — they didn’t have but one line coming in Woodville then, one telephone line. So he got on a horse and rode to Boston which was where he could get to the first good telephone, and phoned me at the bank“He
says, ‘Hal, a terrible thing has happened. A tornado has struck Woodville and destroyed the whole central part of it. It’s blown away part of the box house, it’s blown the Episcopal Church clear away,
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