Family:Allen Gay and Abigail Castleberry (1)

May 11, 1804

The Daily Advertiser , Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia

April 15 - - The dreadful Tornado which took place on Thursday the 5th instant, has been tracked ten miles beyond the Oconee River, and as far as the Savannah River. Its general course was about east north east. For some time after is subsided the leaves and fragments of trees descended perfectly covered with ice. A sea fowl was caught within eight miles of this place. The following is a statement of the information we have been able to collect:

It crossed the Oconee at Mr. Gholsons; Mr. G's Houses and Fences entirely destroyed. Mr. M'Farlane - Houses and Fences destroyed. Mr. Hugh Comer - Houses and Plantation destroyed, and Mrs. Comer very much hurt. Mr. John Little - Houses and Fences destroyed. Mr. Harris Allen - Houses destroyed. Mrs. Allen and two children killed. Mr. Henry Lowe - House and Plantation destroyed. Mr. Stephen Horton - Barn burnt by lightning. Mr. Allen GAY - Houses and Plantation destroyed, and family all wounded. - Mrs. GAY was carried up the chimney.