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Submitted: 4/24/15 • Approved: 4/24/15 • Last Updated: 4/27/15 • R1071667-G1071663-S3
Rufus
Sept 13, 1875 - Apr 10, 1944
Freemason
Sarah
Sept 6, 1886 - Apr 10, 1944
Order of the Eastern Star
Ermalene
Mar 23, 1926 - Apr 10, 1944
James Vernon
July 9, 1942 - Apr 10, 1944
Henry Lee Taylor
July 19, 1935 - Apr 10, 1944
Isabella
Jan 9, 1918 - Apr 10, 1944
Anita Louise
Feb 12, 1938 - Apr 10, 1944
Note;
Same death date for all
ancestry.com
Wednesday, April 12, 1944
Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, p 10
Description: 18-MILE SWATH IS CUT THROUGH MONROE COUNTY, 15 PERSONS KILLED, 45 INJURED. Brinkley, April 11 - Fifteen persons were reported killed in Monroe county including 11 in Duncan township, while 45 were injured in last night's tornado which swept a path 150 to 200 yeards wide from Casscoe, near the southwestern corner of the county, northeast to a point near the Monroe county. Known dead:...Rufus Guydon, Negro, living at Duncan, and his wife Sarah Guydon. Ermaline, Isabel, Nita and Henry Guydon and a grandchild, Henry Lee Taylor. Maurice Brown, Negro, living at Duncan. The Guydon family was annihilated when the tornado struck their home.
Contributed on 4/24/15 by hawkinsdonna
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