On the grounds of the Octagon Hall Museum, a Civil War era house, there is a small cemetery surrounded by a small stone wall. According to Bill Byrd, the executive director of Octagon Hall, it contains four graves who are said to be Elizabeth C Akers Caldwell (wife of Andrew J. Caldwell), two of his children (A. J. Caldwell & Mary Elizabeth Caldwell), and an unknown burial. "A few yards away, surrounded by bald cypress trees, is a slave cemetery with 17 bodies. Outside the circle of trees lay two buried Confederate soldiers, although many soldiers likely died on the grounds."**
Mary Elizabeth, the child of Andrew Jackson Caldwell and his wife Elizabeth, is said to have died by fire in the winter kitchen. She is buried next to her mother. When Mary was about 4 years old her mother died on June 9th, 1851.* Then about 5 months later on Nov. 8, 1851 her baby brother, A. J., died after tumbling down the stairs and breaking his neck.
According to the family Bible of Andrew Jackson Caldwell of Simpson County Kentucky, Mary Elizabeth Caldwell was born 13 July, 1847 just over three years after her father Andrew Jackson Caldwell and mother Elizabeth C. Akers were married in Grayson County, KY on March 24th, 1844.*
It is said that Mary was severely burned after her dress caught fire while standing to close to the fireplace in the winter kitchen located in the basement of the house.*** Mary died tragically on 1 Sep 1854 in the family sick room upstairs. She is now believed to haunt the house. The Family Bible records Mary's Aunt Elizabeth Sutton as dying the same day as her: Elizabeth Sutton departed this life Septr. 1st 1854.* Mary's death was not recorded in the Bible.
Some stories say Mary was 12 years old instead of 7 years old when she died. Others are certain she did not die and lived to be an adult and set forth census records in defense of their case: On the 1860 Census for Franklin, Simpson, Kentucky an 11 yr old Mary E. Caldwell is in the household of A. J. & Harietta S. Caldwell. Then on the 1870 Census for Pilot Knob, Simpson, Kentucky a 23 year old Mary E Caldwell is in the household of James M. & Fannie E. McElwain. Fannie is said to be Mary's sister, and indeed the Octagon Hall Museum has a portrait identified as Fannie McElwain.
Whatever the case may be a grave exists on the grounds of the Octagon Hall Museum which is said to belong to a little girl who is said to be Mary Elizabeth Caldwell, the daughter of Andrew Jackson Caldwell and his first wife, Elizabeth. Since the house is said to be haunted by the little girl's ghost, who knows where the truth lays. In the world of the twilight zone and parallel universes maybe both are true.
Bio by David D. Burns, M. Div.
*http://www.usgenwebsites.org/KYSimpson/bible/BIBLE_REC_AND_J_CALDWELL.htm.
**"Eerie From All Eight Sides: Octagon Hall Steeped in History, Death and the Great Unknown" by Monica Ramsey (Bowling Green Living, August 9, 2018: https://www.bgkyliving.com/features/eerie-from-all-eight-sides/.
***youtube.com/watch?v=fPVZEcUT5UE.
Mary Elizabeth, the child of Andrew Jackson Caldwell and his wife Elizabeth, is said to have died by fire in the winter kitchen. She is buried next to her mother. When Mary was about 4 years old her mother died on June 9th, 1851.* Then about 5 months later on Nov. 8, 1851 her baby brother, A. J., died after tumbling down the stairs and breaking his neck.
According to the family Bible of Andrew Jackson Caldwell of Simpson County Kentucky, Mary Elizabeth Caldwell was born 13 July, 1847 just over three years after her father Andrew Jackson Caldwell and mother Elizabeth C. Akers were married in Grayson County, KY on March 24th, 1844.*
It is said that Mary was severely burned after her dress caught fire while standing to close to the fireplace in the winter kitchen located in the basement of the house.*** Mary died tragically on 1 Sep 1854 in the family sick room upstairs. She is now believed to haunt the house. The Family Bible records Mary's Aunt Elizabeth Sutton as dying the same day as her: Elizabeth Sutton departed this life Septr. 1st 1854.* Mary's death was not recorded in the Bible.
Some stories say Mary was 12 years old instead of 7 years old when she died. Others are certain she did not die and lived to be an adult and set forth census records in defense of their case: On the 1860 Census for Franklin, Simpson, Kentucky an 11 yr old Mary E. Caldwell is in the household of A. J. & Harietta S. Caldwell. Then on the 1870 Census for Pilot Knob, Simpson, Kentucky a 23 year old Mary E Caldwell is in the household of James M. & Fannie E. McElwain. Fannie is said to be Mary's sister, and indeed the Octagon Hall Museum has a portrait identified as Fannie McElwain.
Whatever the case may be a grave exists on the grounds of the Octagon Hall Museum which is said to belong to a little girl who is said to be Mary Elizabeth Caldwell, the daughter of Andrew Jackson Caldwell and his first wife, Elizabeth. Since the house is said to be haunted by the little girl's ghost, who knows where the truth lays. In the world of the twilight zone and parallel universes maybe both are true.
Bio by David D. Burns, M. Div.
*http://www.usgenwebsites.org/KYSimpson/bible/BIBLE_REC_AND_J_CALDWELL.htm.
**"Eerie From All Eight Sides: Octagon Hall Steeped in History, Death and the Great Unknown" by Monica Ramsey (Bowling Green Living, August 9, 2018: https://www.bgkyliving.com/features/eerie-from-all-eight-sides/.
***youtube.com/watch?v=fPVZEcUT5UE.
On the grounds of the Octagon Hall Museum, a Civil War era house, there is a small cemetery surrounded by a small stone wall. According to Bill Byrd, the executive director of Octagon Hall, it contains four graves who are said to be Elizabeth C Akers Caldwell (wife of Andrew J. Caldwell), two of his children (A. J. Caldwell & Mary Elizabeth Caldwell), and an unknown burial. "A few yards away, surrounded by bald cypress trees, is a slave cemetery with 17 bodies. Outside the circle of trees lay two buried Confederate soldiers, although many soldiers likely died on the grounds."**
Mary Elizabeth, the child of Andrew Jackson Caldwell and his wife Elizabeth, is said to have died by fire in the winter kitchen. She is buried next to her mother. When Mary was about 4 years old her mother died on June 9th, 1851.* Then about 5 months later on Nov. 8, 1851 her baby brother, A. J., died after tumbling down the stairs and breaking his neck.
According to the family Bible of Andrew Jackson Caldwell of Simpson County Kentucky, Mary Elizabeth Caldwell was born 13 July, 1847 just over three years after her father Andrew Jackson Caldwell and mother Elizabeth C. Akers were married in Grayson County, KY on March 24th, 1844.*
It is said that Mary was severely burned after her dress caught fire while standing to close to the fireplace in the winter kitchen located in the basement of the house.*** Mary died tragically on 1 Sep 1854 in the family sick room upstairs. She is now believed to haunt the house. The Family Bible records Mary's Aunt Elizabeth Sutton as dying the same day as her: Elizabeth Sutton departed this life Septr. 1st 1854.* Mary's death was not recorded in the Bible.
Some stories say Mary was 12 years old instead of 7 years old when she died. Others are certain she did not die and lived to be an adult and set forth census records in defense of their case: On the 1860 Census for Franklin, Simpson, Kentucky an 11 yr old Mary E. Caldwell is in the household of A. J. & Harietta S. Caldwell. Then on the 1870 Census for Pilot Knob, Simpson, Kentucky a 23 year old Mary E Caldwell is in the household of James M. & Fannie E. McElwain. Fannie is said to be Mary's sister, and indeed the Octagon Hall Museum has a portrait identified as Fannie McElwain.
Whatever the case may be a grave exists on the grounds of the Octagon Hall Museum which is said to belong to a little girl who is said to be Mary Elizabeth Caldwell, the daughter of Andrew Jackson Caldwell and his first wife, Elizabeth. Since the house is said to be haunted by the little girl's ghost, who knows where the truth lays. In the world of the twilight zone and parallel universes maybe both are true.
Bio by David D. Burns, M. Div.
*http://www.usgenwebsites.org/KYSimpson/bible/BIBLE_REC_AND_J_CALDWELL.htm.
**"Eerie From All Eight Sides: Octagon Hall Steeped in History, Death and the Great Unknown" by Monica Ramsey (Bowling Green Living, August 9, 2018: https://www.bgkyliving.com/features/eerie-from-all-eight-sides/.
***youtube.com/watch?v=fPVZEcUT5UE.
Mary Elizabeth, the child of Andrew Jackson Caldwell and his wife Elizabeth, is said to have died by fire in the winter kitchen. She is buried next to her mother. When Mary was about 4 years old her mother died on June 9th, 1851.* Then about 5 months later on Nov. 8, 1851 her baby brother, A. J., died after tumbling down the stairs and breaking his neck.
According to the family Bible of Andrew Jackson Caldwell of Simpson County Kentucky, Mary Elizabeth Caldwell was born 13 July, 1847 just over three years after her father Andrew Jackson Caldwell and mother Elizabeth C. Akers were married in Grayson County, KY on March 24th, 1844.*
It is said that Mary was severely burned after her dress caught fire while standing to close to the fireplace in the winter kitchen located in the basement of the house.*** Mary died tragically on 1 Sep 1854 in the family sick room upstairs. She is now believed to haunt the house. The Family Bible records Mary's Aunt Elizabeth Sutton as dying the same day as her: Elizabeth Sutton departed this life Septr. 1st 1854.* Mary's death was not recorded in the Bible.
Some stories say Mary was 12 years old instead of 7 years old when she died. Others are certain she did not die and lived to be an adult and set forth census records in defense of their case: On the 1860 Census for Franklin, Simpson, Kentucky an 11 yr old Mary E. Caldwell is in the household of A. J. & Harietta S. Caldwell. Then on the 1870 Census for Pilot Knob, Simpson, Kentucky a 23 year old Mary E Caldwell is in the household of James M. & Fannie E. McElwain. Fannie is said to be Mary's sister, and indeed the Octagon Hall Museum has a portrait identified as Fannie McElwain.
Whatever the case may be a grave exists on the grounds of the Octagon Hall Museum which is said to belong to a little girl who is said to be Mary Elizabeth Caldwell, the daughter of Andrew Jackson Caldwell and his first wife, Elizabeth. Since the house is said to be haunted by the little girl's ghost, who knows where the truth lays. In the world of the twilight zone and parallel universes maybe both are true.
Bio by David D. Burns, M. Div.
*http://www.usgenwebsites.org/KYSimpson/bible/BIBLE_REC_AND_J_CALDWELL.htm.
**"Eerie From All Eight Sides: Octagon Hall Steeped in History, Death and the Great Unknown" by Monica Ramsey (Bowling Green Living, August 9, 2018: https://www.bgkyliving.com/features/eerie-from-all-eight-sides/.
***youtube.com/watch?v=fPVZEcUT5UE.
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