Subject: folk lore
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 20:14:36 -0500
From: pebbleshayes@webtv.net (Judy Graves)
To: rking@indian.vinu.edu
This is not about Knox County; however.
I come from a family loaded with stories. The one I will recount to you is of my great grandmother (paternal). she was from Cork County, Ireland and she and her husand fled the faminine (potato).
She was a celtic who possessed the power to see the future. During her lifetime there are too many stories to recount but this one I will share. When she passed on she was buried in the Roman Catholic cemetery next to someone she detested. My own father recounted to me that as a newly-wed (couple) in Auburn, New York, he and my mother heard footsteps outside their home on the sidewalk while they were lying in bed. He was only 22.Then my great grandmother walked through the wall up to his bed and told him she would not rest until she was moved. She haunted all her children until they moved her. She had used a cane at the end of her life and different members of the family heard her climbing stairs and one uncle said she struck him with the cane. She was moved and the hauntings stopped.
Subject: Re: folk lore
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 18:45:26 -0500
From: pebbleshayes@webtv.net (Judy Graves)
To: rking@indian.vinu.edu
Dear Richard,
This happened in Auburn, NY, about 1930.
Re-reading the story, I wanted to point out my father recognized her gait yet she was floating when he saw her.
Also, he and my mother seemed to know she was coming. I also heard my father's footsteps about a week after he had died in 1963.