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  1. This is the storm that mother and mawmaw always talked about. Papa and uncle Will Griffen watched, from the back porch of a house that still stand just out of Lineville going toward Barfield, this storm as it moved through Clay county. Mother said it looked like a big ball of fire bouncing along the ground.

  2. Katherine Brown Northcutt , this is one the one’s that went through N. Perry .

    1. Wow. Mother would have been an infant. Thanks for sharing.

    2. I figured that out right after I posted that!

  3. My grandmother always talked about it also. Took out a tree in the front yard. They were thankful it did not land on the house.

  4. I heard my mom & dad speak of this killer tornado that came through Paint Rock Al & killed several I did not know until I read this article today one of the ladies killed was named Pansey (wonder if this is where my mom got my name) it almost destroyed our little country town

  5. I ALWAYS HEARD OF MY MOM & DAD SPEAK OF THIS KILLER TORNADO THAT KILLED SEVERAL IN OUR SMALL COUNTRY TOWN OF PAINT ROCK,AL I DID NOT KNOW UNTIL READING THIS ARTICLE THAT A LADY NAMED PANSEY WAS KILLED (wonder if this is where my Mom got my name)

  6. I can remember a lady in our church in Helena who had been badly injured in that tornado. My uncle lost his wife in that tornado, also. She was 8 months pregnant.

  7. Man, times were tough from 1915-1945! Pandemics on humans, Elm disease, Pineapple virus, Insect plagues, dust bowl, economic depressions, and wars, then there was the weather.

  8. My mother and her family survived their house being destroyed during a tornado in Paint Rock on this date. It was always referred to as “The Storm.”

  9. My Dad was 7 when this took place.He had vivid memories of these storms.

    1. Thanks

  10. This is such an amazing story!

  11. Is this the storm that destroyed scottsboro

  12. April 27, 2011 there were 60 tornadoes that hit the state of Alabama!

  13. I was 7yo when the Super Tornado hit Cullman and other places. I had ptsd from the horrors. 1974 april.

  14. Theron Kelley Your Mother is listed through the link.

    1. Toni Gautney Baron Yes. I have the bham news article with the list somewhere.

    2. Theron Kelley my grandmother, Tommye Cox, use to tell me stories of this tornado. I can’t remember if she was living in Sylacauga at the time or San Francisco, I believe she would have been married to B.R Cox during this event

    3. Walt Sanders B.R. Cox was the State Farm agent from whom I bought my first auto insurance.

    4. Theron Kelley I wish I had a chance to have met him. Mr Duck use to tell me about him.

  15. Mr. Latham’s interview was one of the most moving stories I’ve ever heard.

  16. I remember my grandmothers talk about this…

  17. This tornado blew my house away including the foundation. Of course it wasn’t my house at the time. The Looney’s built it back exactly how it had been before the storm. Mrs. Hightower told me the story.

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