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From: JoAnn Rayfield <>
Subject: Re: [ALWILCOX-L] Sallie Anne Bledsoe Fields
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:50:20 -0500 (CDT)


Go Purple?? Is that you??

Jo Rayfield
University Archivist
Illinois State University.


At 09:49 PM 8/9/99 -0400, you wrote:
>My family has some deep, dark secrets. My gg grandmother, Sallie Anne
>Bledsoe Fields (1851-1898) died and is buried at Bryce Hospital in
>Tuscaloosa, AL (the state hospital for the mentally ill) I have written
>Bryce but they say that they have no records. An aunt says that she
>remembers someone telling her that Sallie Anne had been in a tornado and was
>found in a tree afterwards. She was said to have never been the same again
>and the family could not care for her. So, she was taken to Bryce. My
>question is does anyone know if there were any recorded tornadoes in the mid
>1890s for the Wilcox/Marengo area? Or does anyone know any place where I
>might find weather data for the area?
>
>There is more to this story but I will defer to a later time.
>
>
>Becky Gregg
>Greenville, SC
>
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