1925 Tornado Victims
Murphysboro, IL.
| Name (235) | Age | Information |
| Andrews, John G | listed as J G Andrew | |
| Bailey, Clara | ||
| Baker, female | w/o George | |
| Baker, child | ||
| Baker, Emma | ||
| Baker, Opal | ||
| Baker, Thelma | ||
| Bandy, Green Sheron | died on 20 March of injuries | |
| Barnett, Marie | d/o Ida, child | |
| Barnett, Tina May | d/o Ida, child | |
| Baroni, Frank | ||
| Baroni, Joseph | ||
| Bean, Sarah Anna | about 68 years | (nee Quigley) w/o Thomas H. Bean; died 22 Mar in Cairo, IL. (see note #1 & 2) |
| Beck, Minnie Adeline | ||
| Berger, female | w/o George (Juinate or Margaret his wife) | |
| Berger, Juinate | ||
| Berger, Margaret | ||
| Berra, John | died in Carbondale | |
| Bjik, E J | ||
| Blacklock, female | w/o Wallace | |
| Blacklock, Frieda | (?w/o Wallace) | |
| Boston, Evelyn | ||
| Botterbush, Mary Louise | 3 yrs | d/o Edward & Lucy (Dietz) |
| Boucher, Daniel | listed as Dan Baucher | |
| Boucher, Edna Imogene | (sister to Ethel) | |
| Boucher, Ethel | 28 yrs | buried Zion Cemetery (sister to Edna) |
| Bowerman, Helen | ||
| Bowerman, Martha L | ||
| Brandon, Mary | married | |
| Bratcher, infant twins | c/o John | |
| Bratcher, female | w/o John | |
| Brewer, John J | ||
| Brown, Alice | ||
| Brown, Foster Lindsey | ||
| Brown, Joe Henry | ||
| Brown, Nina Lou |
| Callihan, Jerry C | 4 yrs | c/o Jerry buried Evergreen in Ava |
| Callihan, Albert W | 2 yrs | c/o Albert & Mamie buried Evergreen in Ava |
| Clements, unknown | ||
| Clemmons, Katie | possible unknown Clements died in Carbondale on 30 Mar | |
| Cochran, Willis | ||
| Coffer, female | sister of Necie | |
| Coffer, Ethel Rodo | (possible unknown) | |
| Cook, Helen May | a child | |
| Coontz, H S | ||
| Correnti, unknown | c/o Joseph | |
| Cully, Harry A | 55 yrs | h/o Mary E |
| Cully, James A | ||
| Darby, D E | listed on death cert as T E | |
| Dave, Jay | ||
| Davis, Mary Ellen | ||
| DeWitt, John | ||
| Ditzler, John | ||
| Ditzler, Henrietta | ||
| Duncan, Arthur | ||
| Dunhouse, John | 76 yrs | |
| Dunn, Chapman Arthur | ||
| Ellis, David A | ||
| Fielding, male | s/o James | |
| Fielding, female | w/o James (Pauline or Nellie) | |
| Fielding, Nellie | ||
| Fielding, Pauline | ||
| File, Effie | w/o L W | |
| Flatt, Arthur Hiawatha | b. 21 March 1882, Franklin Co., IL or TX, d. 18 March 1925, h/o Ella (Forshee) Flatt (killed outright when pillars from a nearby home nearly completely decapitate him), buried at Tower Grove Cemetery, Murphysboro. | |
| Flatt, Ella Josephine (Forshee) | w/o Arthur H. Flatt, home collapsed in on her, a beam from
the house knocked her down, breaking her neck, buried at Tower Grove Cemetery, Murphysboro. |
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| Fults, Winfield S | death certificate says he died 02 Oct 1925 |
| Gibson, May Etta | w/o J W | |
| Gordon, Caroline | d/o Bert & Nettie | |
| Gooch, James O | ||
| Gouldoni, Louis | ||
| Gregory, unknown | ||
| Gregory, Allsworth A | ||
| Hagler, Elvis Earl | 20-0-3 | |
| Hall, Ruby | ||
| Halliday, female | w/o Mart | |
| Hamerhehl, Ben | (brother of John) listed as Habernehl) | |
| Hamerhehl, John | (brother of Ben) | |
| Hamlett, Della | ||
| Hammer, Frances Abee | ||
| Haney, Samuel Marshal | visiting area from Meridian, MS | |
| Hardwig, Ernest | ||
| Harris, E C | a boy | |
| Harris, John Gilbert | ||
| Harrison, L C | male | |
| Hasselbrock, Ervin | a child | |
| Hasselbrock, August | ||
| Hays, Edna Waneta | ||
| Henning, Charles | died in Carbondale | |
| Henry, Joe | ||
| Hinchcliff, Ernie A | ||
| Isom, Adolphus | race: black | |
| Jackson, Lorine | ||
| Jackson, Louise | ||
| Jay, Dave | s/o John & Anna | |
| Jones, Margaret | race: black, married | |
| Jones, A J | ||
| Jones, J A (? A J) | male | |
| Jones, Sarah L | ||
| Kelly, female | race: black, married | |
| Kereens, Sam | ||
| Kessel, Mary | w/o Edward |
| Ledbetter, Lena B | 20 yrs | w/o Roger died 10 April in Kinkaid Twp |
| Lenington, Herbert Ray | ||
| Lipe, Campbell | ||
| Lipe, Claud | ||
| Lipe, Ivan | ||
| Lockard, John J | died 19 March in Carbondale | |
| Loucius, Dorothy | ||
| Loy, Anna Bernice | married | |
| Loy, Charles Edward | ||
| Loy, Thomas James | ||
| Mainard, Mary | surname Mainor on death cert | |
| Martin, female | w/o James | |
| Martin, John | ||
| Martin, Mamie | died 19 March | |
| Martin, Mandenline | ||
| Martin, May Dell | ||
| Martin, Pete | ||
| McAllister, Ben | surname Calister on death cert | |
| McBride, Orin | ||
| Mcbride, Victoria | ||
| McCord, Herbert | c/o Robert | |
| McCormick, Lucy A | w/o George W | |
| Mifflin, J W | ||
| Mifflin, Jerry N | s/o Murray & Nellie | |
| Mifflin, Jeremiah Newton | (? Jerry N) | |
| Miller, Louis | ||
| Miller, female | w/o Louis | |
| Miller, Louise H | (? w/o Louis) | |
| Modglin, Edward | h/o Betsy died 06 Apr in Bradley Twp | |
| Moore, Joe | ||
| Morgan, Ruth Lorine | 4 yrs | |
| Mory, George | 66 yrs | |
| Morrison, Roberta | 13 yrs | d/o Blake & Della (Beasley) |
| Nausley, Albert | s/o Ray | |
| Nausley, Essie Lee | ||
| Nausley, Fredia Elizabeth | 6 yrs | d/o H H & Mollie died 08 Jun |
| Nausley, Zora Lee | ||
| Neal, W E | ||
| Neal, William E SR | (? W E) | |
| Nolte, female | married | |
| Nolte, C H | male |
| Orland, B A | ||
| Orland, Herbert Addison | (?B A) | |
| Perion, Eilber | 4 yrs | s/o Columbus died 03 Apr at Barnes Hospital in St Louis |
| Perkins, Oscer | race: black | |
| Pieron, Bertha Lou | ||
| Pieron, Mildred | ||
| Pierson, unknown | c/o Columbus | |
| Piltz, Luella | ||
| Piltz, Robert | ||
| Reed, Frank | ||
| Reed, female | w/o Frank | |
| Reeder, Hugh | ||
| Reeder, Imogene | ||
| Roberts, Paul | a child | |
| Rodman, Dollie | w/o Sam | |
| Rushing, William V | died 20 March | |
| Russell, Earl | ||
| Schiro, John | ||
| Schiro, Joseph | ||
| Schiro, Josephine | ||
| Schiro, Lua | ||
| Schiro, Mildred | ||
| Schmallerbeger, Tressie | ||
| Scholle, Elizabeth | ||
| Shaw, Sadie Evelyn | died 21 March, married | |
| Sheeley, Bernard J | ||
| Shelley, Clara | ||
| Silvey, Rhoda | w/o O S | |
| Silvey, Oliver Smith | ||
| Simon, Bertha Francis | ||
| Slater, female | race: black | |
| Smith, Eddie | ||
| Smith, Evelyn Marie | died 20 March | |
| Smith, Ernest | ||
| Smith, James Flanagan | ||
| Smith, John W | ||
| South, female | married | |
| South, female | c/o married female | |
| Spangler, unknown | c/o Ardell | |
| Spangler, female | w/o Ardell | |
| Spangler, John W Jr. | ||
| Spangler, Josephine | (? w/o Ardell) | |
| Spurlozzie, William | ||
| Stevenson, Doris | ||
| Stevenson, Robert | ||
| Stevenson, Ruth | died 19 March | |
| Stiver, unknown | a child | |
| Stivers, Bennie | ||
| Stivers, Elmer L | ||
| Stout, Cooper | ||
| Stratton, Alf | ||
| Stratton, Sadie | ||
| Swafford, John |
| This, Isabelle | ||
| This, Louise | ||
| Thompson, Rebecca | ||
| Thornton, Louisa | 76 yrs | w/o Wm C |
| Trembly, Octavia | ||
| Varner, William Earl | ||
| Verbal, Margaret | w/o Major | |
| Verbal, Major | ||
| Wagner, John J | ||
| Walker, Emma | ||
| Wayman, Louis Roy | s/o Dr. L R | |
| White, Mildred May | married | |
| unknown 3 males | ||
| unknown 7 females | ||
| unknown female at HS | ||
| unknown 7 children | ||
| unknown 4 girls | ||
| unknown Italian female | ||
| unknown 4 Italian children |
Note#2--RE:The Daily Independent, Murphysboro, Illinois .
Mrs. Ruben Crain, daughter of Harve and Sarah Bean, was born at Vergennes, Illinois, March 1, 1878 and was killed in the storm March 18, 1925 .
Mrs. Crain's father,
her sister and
child were killed
in the storm and
her mother died
Sunday morning.