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Jacob Ross Cullers

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Jacob Ross Cullers

Birth
Fort Valley, Shenandoah County, Virginia, USA
Death
17 Mar 1897 (aged 76)
Warren County, Virginia, USA
Burial
Bentonville, Warren County, Virginia, USA
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Jacob Cullers lived on a 150 acre tract of land in Warren Co.——called the “River Tract” and owned by Daniel Cullers, his father. Jacob rented this land and also paid the taxes until his father’s death in 1882. This was later known as the Jake Cullers Place. The house stood by a road on a high bank near the river, and also near a brook and spring.

In the flood of 1870, the worse known to many persons then living, when many horses and mills were washed away, the river had been bank full for several days. Then one morning after an all night rain, as the Cullers were getting breakfast, a wave from the rising river splashed up against the door. Jacob opened the door to see the cause of this splash, and a larger wave came through the door, sweeping the skillet and breakfast off the stove, and hurling the family to the back of the kitchen.

They went out a back window up the hill to safety. The house stood, but was badly flooded. The large waves were caused by the Mill Darns upstream breaking and releasing a large wall of water, which in turn broke other dams causing other large waves. The only mill not destroyed was the Hazzard Mill. The buildings of this old Cullers place were torn down years ago, and the land now (1969) belongs to a larger tract. Also, the old road has been abandoned for a different route.
Jacob Cullers lived on a 150 acre tract of land in Warren Co.——called the “River Tract” and owned by Daniel Cullers, his father. Jacob rented this land and also paid the taxes until his father’s death in 1882. This was later known as the Jake Cullers Place. The house stood by a road on a high bank near the river, and also near a brook and spring.

In the flood of 1870, the worse known to many persons then living, when many horses and mills were washed away, the river had been bank full for several days. Then one morning after an all night rain, as the Cullers were getting breakfast, a wave from the rising river splashed up against the door. Jacob opened the door to see the cause of this splash, and a larger wave came through the door, sweeping the skillet and breakfast off the stove, and hurling the family to the back of the kitchen.

They went out a back window up the hill to safety. The house stood, but was badly flooded. The large waves were caused by the Mill Darns upstream breaking and releasing a large wall of water, which in turn broke other dams causing other large waves. The only mill not destroyed was the Hazzard Mill. The buildings of this old Cullers place were torn down years ago, and the land now (1969) belongs to a larger tract. Also, the old road has been abandoned for a different route.

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Aged 76 years, 2 months and 25 days.

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