A lady in Ellisville, had a newletter also cant remember its name it had a picture of a cotton on the front, with green leaves At 05:01 PM 5/14/2001 -0500, Marti Parker wrote: > >hi, >some years ago the daily leader in brookhaven, ms. (25 miles south of >hazlehurst and 9 miles south of wesson) carried a genealogy column. in it >they listed in 3-4 articles, the names of the people killed and some other >data related to the storm. i don't know if i still have it in my files, but >it is the best data i've found. >marti > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jack Rogers [mailto:jack@wizworks.net] >Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 4:32 PM >To: MSCOPIAH-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: Help on researching 1883 tornado > > >Bob, > If you haven't seen these: >Using Northernlight.com, a search on: >1- Mississippi tornado 1883 >and >2- Copiah County tornado 1883 >produced, among a bunch of other things (that seemed worthless), these two >hits: >-- U.S. Worst Tornadoes: Apr 22, 1883 - Wesson 56 dead, 300 injured; >Beaugegard 29 dead, Georgetown 29 dead. That is on: >www.tornadoproject.com/alltorns/worstts.htm Perhaps there is more on that >full site? >-- also: Univ. of Southern Mississippi, McCain Library manuscript >collections. -- www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/subjects.htm Looks like they >may have some manuscript (probably a student paper / master's thesis?) on >this. > >Incidentally, I just was looking over a microfilm copy of the WPA history of >Copiah County (apparently local manuscript for WPA state history [?], >ca.1938-40), but I recall nothing in it on this tornado. Check with county >library HQ in Hazlehurst as to whether they may have other info on this >(local newspaper, etc.)? Also, are there town historians in those >locales -- the kind of people who know everything & everybody else who >remembers everything/everybody? >Good luck, >Jack Rogers > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <Bob.Crawford@csmco.com> >To: <MSCOPIAH-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 3:48 PM >Subject: Help on researching 1883 tornado > > >> April 22, 1883 - >> a tornado outbreak occurred with many tornadoes reported from Louisiana to >> Kansas and east to South Carolina. A total of 200 people were killed. An >> F4 tornado struck Wesson, Beauregard, and Georgetown, Mississippi with 56 >> killed and 300 injured from this tornado alone. >> >> Anyone have any ideas where I might be able to research this storm? I'm >> interested in the 56 killed and their burials. >> >> Bob >> >> >> ==== MSCOPIAH Mailing List ==== >> >> >> >> ============================== >> Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >> Source for Family History Online. Go to: >> http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB >> > > >==== MSCOPIAH Mailing List ==== > > > >============================== >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >Source for Family History Online. Go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > > > >==== MSCOPIAH Mailing List ==== >The listkeeper is Annette Womack. >ACWomack@aol.com > > >============================== >Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > > God Bless Lynda