I checked out the link provided to the Southern Standard about the flood around McMinnville 100 years ago this weekend. Unfortunately I could not get to more than the introductory paragraph on the homepage without subscribing. However, I was particularly interested in that story, because my great-grandmother was a victim of that flood. Her name was Martha Ida Turner (1877-1960). As I remember being told the details, she was working in a woolen factory located on a creek around Faulkner Springs, and was boarding with a lady named Mrs. Jennie Blevins. The flood destroyed the Blevins House, and washed everything down the creek, including most of my great-grandmother's possessions. Part of what she lost was a trunk, where she had been diligently saving her pay from the woolen factory. All was lost. Before the flood she was being courted by a 43 year old widower with 9 children. His name was Lavander Pope Sanders (1858-1927). I have a copy of a poignant letter that he wrote to her on March 31, 1902 expressing his sympathy with her plight. Apparently when he had seen her last, he had proposed marriage, and the letter urges her to accept his proposal soon since she had lost her home and all her possessions. But he had a home waiting for her. I suspect her biggest hesitation to his offer was the thought of those nine children, but she did accept and they were married on April 27th. She went on to have eight more children, including my grandmother, Nadine Sanders Simpson (b. 1911), who is the last survivor of the 16 children. She lived in an assisted living home in Gallatin at the age of 90. If anyone else knows any details about this flood, I would be very interested in hearing then. Erick Montgomery