Southern Graves

Here are the most viewed posts over the last 30 days. - Dum Tacet Clamat - Members of the Kennon Family Killed by a Storm in 1875 (Tombstone Tuesday) - Frances Lowe was All the Wife & Mother Could Be (Tombstone Tuesday) - Calm, the Good Man Meets His Fate (& a Masonic Funeral Ritual) - Today's Epitaph: Mrs. Fannie Pitts Dwelleth in Heaven - Today's Epitaph: Sleep on Dearest! - Zebulon's Grandfather - Fannie's Headless Angel (Wordless Wednesday) - Hearts & Hands (Wordless Wednesday) - Starnes Tree of Life & Death

In March of 1875, at least three tornadoes touched 18 counties in the state of Georgia. In Harris county, at least six members of the Capt. John H. Kennon family were killed. They were laid to rest in the Waverly Hall cemetery. An account of the disaster in the 30 March 1875 Macon Weekly Telegraph says this: "...At Mt. Airy, the house of Capt. John Kennon was whirled around, and portions of it carried half a mile. Mrs. Kennon was killed with her two grown daughters, a son aged seventeen, a daughter of twelve, and a baby. Their bodies were scattered along the road for 50 to 150 yards, and everything else was gone. The bones of all were broken and they had received severe gashes..." Here is an additional article that describes more of the storm. I transcribed the whole article for those that might have genealogical interests. After this transcription is a link to even more articles from other newspapers detailing the destruction of the storms. Augusta Chronicle ...