Chapel Hill Tornado Tuesday 10th May 1921 4pm

Chapel Hill Tennessee Hard Hit by Terrible Tornado
About Twenty Buildings Either Damaged, Wrecked or Blown Away

Tuesday 10th May 1921 4pm

Third Storm to go thru Chapel Hill in 40 days

No Fatalities

Mrs Martha Marshall(age 65) Slightly hurt when son Gilbert Marshall's home was blown down

• Houston & Ligett Inc, Pencil Mill--damaged
• Lawrence Bros. Grocery Store--Wrecked
• Elgin Cooper's Store--Wrecked
• Chapel Hill Creamery--Wrecked
• Methodist Church--Wrecked
• Chapel Hill High School Gymnasium--Wrecked
• Cumberland Presbyterian Church--Damaged
• Cumberland Telephone Co.--considerable loss

Residential Damages
Blown Down:

• T. H. Lawrence
• Mrs. T. M. Lawrence
• R. N. Shofner
• Elgin Cooper
• Gilbert Marshall
• George Crofton
• Robert Elder's Tenant House & 2 barns

Residences on Creamery Street badly damaged.

Source:  

The Marshall Gazette Friday May 13th 1921 imaged by TN State Library & Archives

Vol. 44, no. 40 (3 Oct. 1917[9?])-v. 47, no. 35 (1 Sept. 1922)  Image 602 of 1068

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Obituary of William Green Cook(1944)

 William G. Cook

William Green Cook, aged 90 years, died at his home at Rockvale, in Rutherford county December 18 following a brief illness.

Funeral services were conducted at the chapel of the Lawrence Funeral Home in Chapel Hill, at 1 o'clock, Tuesday afternoon, December 19.

Burial in the Cook cemetery at Rover, Bedford county.

Mr Cook was a son of William Clifford and Elizabeth Putnam(sic) Cook and was born in Bedford County.  He resided in Chapel Hill for several years before moving to Rockvale.  He was a retired farmer and had been active until his illness and was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church.

Survivors are:  one daughter, Mrs. Horace Rowland, of Rockvale; three sons, Thomas Cook, of Old Hickory; Clarence Cook, of Rockvale, and Jno Cook of Chapel Hill; 12 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren

Source:  
The Marshall Gazette(Lewisburg TN) Fri. Dec. 29th 1944 p.6 Columns 1
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