🌟History Spotlight: Cecelia Smith’s Eyewitness Account of 1915 Galveston Hurricane Hear Cecelia Smith, longtime employee of the McFaddin family, give a harrowing eyewitness account of a devastating hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas in 1915—just 15 years after the infamous 1900 Galveston Hurricane claimed thousands of lives. Cecelia shared this story during an oral history interview recorded for the McFaddin-Ward House Museum in August 1983 when she was 83 years old. Cecelia had traveled to

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