Sligh Egg Company

"I think you will remember Sligh Egg Company, owned and operated by my parents Phinies and Beulah Sligh. Their plant procerssed eggs by size etc. They had a storage warehouse attached to their processing plant and in this warehouse were litterly over 100,000 styrofoam, dozen egg cartons which were used to place the eggs in before going to stores to sell. The storm hit the egg plant and destroyed it. My father had worked at the Bradley Mill years before and knew a lot of the men who worked there. While the cleanup was taking place some of his friends came over from the mill and told him that they had been cussing him all morning. It seems that the storm had blown the styrofoam egg cartons into all the machinery and they said that it was like digging a solid block of styrofoam, they were in every nook and crany of the mill. My wife Barbara Jean Moore, who lived on Prospect Road, who went through the 1949 tornado, her house was destroyed, and she was injured. We went back to see if the house that had been built on their lot was still there and it was, the storm went almost in the same path except it missed the house there but got a lot all around it." Sincerely Freddie Charles Sligh