I like the story, Linda, keep it up. Did they use the word 'tornado' in the original writing? I thought they were called 'cyclones' back then.I didn't hear the word tornado all my life. We didn't even say a bad 'storm' we used to say it's coming up a cloud. A very bad cloud came through last night' Funny how different areas, used different words to describe things. I can hear my Mother now "Let's hurry and get the clothes in, , it's building a bad cloud, low,in the west' We said things like 'That's a very black cloud" I suppose, a write up about a happening, would call it a 'tornado' because all those that came through Chilton Co Al in the 1920's and '30's that killed several of our neighbors, are now listed in the internet as tornados, but they were called cyclones by people then.One hit close to Stanton Al and killed 14 of one Latham family, leaving only two little girls alive. Stella