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MIKE WATSON: Flooding unforgiving threat

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By Mike Watson

(1:21pmCT, 14 Apr 2017) -Looking at the high-water photographs on CM today proves that flooding is a real and unforgiving threat to humans, animals and property.

Just this past Saturday Mrs. Watson and I were very near this now flooded spot. We were on a mission to take photographs for a project. As we drove along, through Gradyville and environs, I recounted the history of the Gradyville Flood, noting the "trickle" that is Big Creek.

June 7, 2015 will mark the 108th anniversary of the tragic event that claimed so many lives. The accompanying photo is just one of the markers for flood victims of that night.

MW --Mike Watson

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Picketts Chapel marker commemorates Gradyville Flood victim



2015-04-15 - Photo by Mike Watson.
This is one of the grave markers that specifically commemorates the Gradyville Flood of Friday night, June 7, 1907. This one for little Lillian Irene Moss, daughter of N.H. and Louella Moss, born 9 June 1900, lost her life 7 June 1907, buried at Pickett's Chapel. - MIKE WATSON

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