High Winds Kill Winfred Howell, 1910

From the Thursday, June 9, 1910, issue of the Watauga Democrat

For the last several days it has been very windy in this section of the country. On Tuesday the wind blew hard enough to blow off limbs on some of the trees in some places and at other places the trees were blown down. In the southwest portion of the county, Winfred Howell, a youth 14 years old, was killed by a large limb falling on him, and his younger brother, Willard, was badly hurt by the same limb. Their father, Felix Howell, jumped from under the falling limb just in time to avoid being killed or hurt.—Jefferson Recorder