- Avon Cemetery [Avon Township] and Scotch Hill Cemetery
[Spring Valley Township]
- Nellie BRACE was about 16 years old when she got the typhoid
fever. Typhoid fever was very
- contagious and very deadly back then, and most people did
not survive it. Nellie was buried in the Avon Cemetery with only
the undertaker, Mr. SCHILLING, present. There was no funeral
and the burial was done as quickly as possible. Religious people
would consider this burial spot as unholy ground because there
was no blessing for the passing of the spirit. Sixteen was, at
that time, the age of majority which brought many new issues
into a person's life, especially to girls, and so Nellie died
with these issues unresolved. The fever was also a very violent
death. These things set the scene for a haunting.
- In later years kids quite often went into the cemeteries
late at night for partying and sometimes for the
- adventure. The two local cemeteries visited most often were
Avon and Scotch Hill.
- Scotch Hill is said to be haunted by the cries of a twin
baby that died at birth. Kids still went to
- Scotch Hill when I was in High School but no one went to
the Avon Cemetery any more. The ominous wailing moans, freezing
chills, and sightings of the full apparitions of a young girl
were a bit too much of an adventure for anyone. Several people
claimed that the spirit at Avon Cemetery spoke to them and identified
herself as Nellie BRACE.
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- Story by Gary, courtesy of Bonnie
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