Explanation as to that tornado's significance on the headstone is explained in an article from the
Daily Ardmoreite, published in Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma, Sunday, March 26, 1916.
Eight Victims of Wind Storm in Murray County
Davis, March 25-- Members of the family of Alex Edgmon were killed in a storm which swept across a section of Murray County some 3 or 4 miles east of here last night shortly after 9 p.m. The storm moved in a northeasterly direction accompanied by a heavy fall of rain and hail.
Alex Edgmon, head of the family, escaped death, having gone to see after his stock when the tornado struck the home which was a box house. The victims are: Mrs. Alex Edgmon 50, Alonzo Edgmon 18, Sam Edgmon 14, Pete Edgmon 30, Mrs. Pete Edgmon and two children of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Edgmon, and Mrs. Hannah Thomas, age 80, mother of Mrs. Alex Edgmon, who was totally blind.
The family of Rev. H. D. Low escaped injury although their home was demolished, the family having taken refuge in the storm house. Several other farm houses in the path of the storm were destroyed… Nearly Chigley, L. O. Franklin and wife were both injured, Mr. Franklin sustaining a broken arm and leg.
A little girl of the young Edgmons was visiting at the home of a neighbor at the time of the storm and escaped. The bodies of the eight victims were brought to Davis today and will be interred here tomorrow in one grave at the Davis cemetery.
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The cemetery is Green Hill Cemetery, here in Davis, and the family are buried together in a mass grave in the Old South section, Block S5, row 21. The tornado is in the center of the headstone, which features the family name, "Edgmon", above it (and also on the reverse). Below the family name is their death date of March 24, 1916, the victims are listed: Pete, Ethel, Urey, Cecil, Margaret, Alonzo, Sam, and Hanna Thomas. Father, Alex, the survivor, joined his family in March of 1944, and that is noted here, below the tornado.