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Information wanted on photo of George Henry Nell home Old picture believed to have once been a keepsake of Ottillia Elizabeth Scott Bell. It brings back memories of the writer's great aunt, and memories of a story of a woman who sang hymns and prayed to get through the terrible night when Big Creek swelled to create the worst natural disaster in Adair County History, the Gradyville Flood. By Geniece Marcum A fading photo was found among items which came from the Robert Winfield Scott family of Metcalfe County. The back of the photo bears the inscription, " The George Henry Nell Home and Family" The only connection we can find for it being there was that the Scotts' daughter, Ottillia Elizabeth Scott, married one Clayton Bell from Adair County on April 3, 1889. They lived in Gradyville, KY. Though I don't know just where their home was located, I do know the houe was in the path of the Gradyville flood, which devasted the community on June 7, 1907. Some 30 years ago I remember reading an obituary of a woman in her nineties which appeared in the Adair County News. Her obit included the story of how, as a little girl, she, along with three other little girls, had spent the night with Mrs Clayton Bell on the night of the flood.According to the story, when water began to rise in the Bell home, Mrs. Bell had placed a heavy table in the middle of a bed and placing the children on top of it she then stood on the bed and held onto the table and prayed and sang hymns all night long.I do not remember the name of the woman's whose obituary I was reading, but I never forgot the little story of the flood. It was especially moving to me. Otillia Scott Bell was my great aunt. Upon the death of her husband, Great Aunt Otillia returned to the farm home of her parents in Metcalfe to live. In her last years she moved into Edmonton, along with a sister, Helen, to live with their brother, Judge Mike O. Scott, for the rest of their lives.I feel sure that this photo and several others given to me were among her things which were left behind at her death. The treasure of photos were kept by her niece, Cynthia Stapp Coleman and passed on to me a year or so ago by her son, the late Fox Coleman, and wife Martha. This story was posted on 2008-03-15 16:08:16
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