Lily Ziock

LILY ZIOCK was born in 1871& was the daughter of Elise Schrobeck & August Ziock, Sr.  Lily never married & died 26 January 1899.  She is buried in New Pickers Cemetery, St. Louis.

Lilian Ziock Palmer once told me that Lily Ziock witnessed a tornado take the roof off of the neighbors house.  Lily went into shock & died a few years later.  And it seems to me that Lil Palmer also said she never spoke after the incident.  Pictures of 1896 St. Louis tornado   
 

Rutger Street Area

Rutger & 7th St.  St. Louis, Mo. 1896 Tornado damage.  The storm was in a most murderous mood when it reached this corner. Twenty-seven people were killed here in one building. The entire vicinity is a wreck.   Image contributed by Terry Harmon