The Fredericksburg, Virginia, newspaper called the FREDERICKSBURG FREE LANCE-STAR published on 19 May 2001 an article about a tornado that demolished parts of Woodville in 1929. Storms from the same weather system also caused damage and deaths at Ben Venue and the lower end of Culpeper County near the community of La Grange (Lignum area). The article is currently online at http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2001/052001/05192001/279609 although for some reason, the online article stops in the middle of a sentence. I am posting this to the Fauquier, Stafford, and Prince William Lists, since I am subscribed to them (and because some of these family names occur there), and I would appreciate your forwarding this to other Lists where people would find it helpful. Below I have placed a list of the people mentioned in the article. Laura People named in the article about the 1929 tornado: Fannie Browning (Mrs. Millard Brown of Lignum) Callie and George Johnson Lewis Browning, nicknamed "Sweets" R.T. "Bob" Starke Rhodes Brown the Widow Cora Botts, aged 77 her married daughter, Lucy Botts King the three Updike sisters, Mamie Helen, Sally Ann, and Essie Laura Pulliam and her 18-month-old son, Gene Lillard Pulliam, Laura's husband -- They lived in the old Silas Johnson house Raymond Johnson, 25 years old John Y. Button and Claude Tanner, both from Culpeper "Aunt" Annie Wallace, her husband, Charlie, and her young daughter, Beulah Miss Mary Starke (sister of Bob Starke) Mrs. Elizabeth Bruce Browning 5-year-old Dorothy Cline (now Dorothy Grizzle of Fredericksburg) her father Weldon Cline June Kibler, then 12 Ten-year-old Laura Lillard Pulliam (daughter of Laura and Lillard) (Walker), who now lives in Front Royal R.E. Miller the Callie Johnson house (now the home of Tom Von Fange) June Kibler (Mrs. Clifton Clark) Billy Pulliam Marshall Hawkins (schoolboy, killed) Fannie Browning (10 years old) her sister Mary Elizabeth Browning, 13 (Mrs. George Graves) Eunice Gibbs of Madison Rhodes Brown, H.G. Brown, Erna (Guinn) Brown, John Roberts Moffett Brown Doctors Otis Marshall and D.W. Kelly Dr. Gid Brown John Lyle's farm near Ben Venue Jim Massie Jean Wood Brown L. A. "Allie" and his daughter, Zillah (Gutowski) Barbara Griffith Reid and her mother, Elsie Cannon Griffith Elsie Griffith and her husband, Will the old Abby Daniel house near Ben Venue a family named Corbin living in the tenant dwelling Carroll Settle, a neighbor the Jenkins family Catherine Riley of Amissville Lena Peyton and her two-year old child (both killed) Near La Grange (Lignum area) -- Davie and Roberta Campbell (killed) Thomas Thompson * * * * * * * * * * * The nuts never fall far from the family tree.