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Odds & Ends
Jet crash
One day in the spring of 1964, Byron and Ruby Bailey had just stepped out of Fletcher Ruppe's store when they looked up and saw a jet fighter heading to the ground, and two parachutes floating downward. The plane crashed beside the creek out on Beason Road, beyond Graveyard Grocery. The two airmen, a general and a colonel, were only slightly hurt. Pieces of the air force jet were later gathered in a pile on a little road east of the graveyard.
Photo courtesy Sam Davis
Read an account of the crash from The Shelby Star.
Update: Apparently we've misidentified all that sheet metal in the photo. David L. Taylor writes: “That is the picture of the top of the water tank that blew off. I know because I was there. I saw it blow off.” He did not provide the date or circumstances. And upon closer examination, we've determined this scene is nowhere near the graveyard, but is at the top of Reservoir Street. The large white building in the background is the old cotton gin.
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