Jackson County IL Archives Obituaries.....Nausley, Elsie Lee (nee Roberts) March 26, 1925
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Murphysboro Daily Independent, March 28, 1925 

    Elsie Lee ROBERTS was born Oct. 15, 1898.  She was united in marriage to Ray
NAUSLEY May 4, 1918.  Three children blessed this union, Dorothy, Albert and
Zora Lee.  Zora Lee died also as one of the victims of the cyclone with her
mother.  Mrs. NAUSLEY lingered after the severe injury and passed away Thursday
at 11:50 p.m.

    Mrs. NAUSLEY was a member of the Centenary Methodist church.  Besides her
children she leaves to mourn her loss bereaved husband, her father Henry
ROBERTS, three sisters and a grandmother and two uncles.

    She was a faithful and devoted member of the church always attending upon
its ordination.  She was a quiet, modest, beautiful spirit whose influence for
good will be missed in church and community.

    Funeral services were held by the pastor, Rev. A. F. HAYNES.


Additional Comments:
Widely considered the most devastating and powerful tornado in American history,
the Great Tri-State Tornado ripped through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on
March 18, 1925. In its 219-mile-long wake it left four completely destroyed
towns, six severely damaged ones, 15,000 destroyed homes, and 2,000 injured.
Most significantly, 695 people were killed, a record for a single tornado.

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