1846 Grenada, Mississippi, tornado

"[7] According to the New Orleans Picayune, "On the outside of a letter to a friend, is written the words, 'Grenada is in ruins, and many of her inhabitants are destroyed; names cannot be given, or numbers set down.

[9] The teacher of the girls' school was killed, her body was found across the river in a tree.

[9] The force of the tornado "shattered" the logs of the cabin that housed the girls' school.

[6][10] According to a scrapbooked clipping of a news article entitled "The Great Hurricane," written by Aaron Davis, the tornado approached the town from the west.

[11] The same tornado later continued northward into Maury County, Tennessee, where there were no casualties but three farms were damaged.