Mame later referred to the spirit as “our beloved ghost” and she viewed her as a kindly ghost.īrown family members and guests continued to have sightings in and around the area of the haunted bedroom during the early 20th century. A family friend later suggested that Mame had seen the ghost of Margaretta Varick. For three successive nights, the same thing occurred. Mame screamed and her brother, John Matthew, came with a shotgun, but the ghost had disappeared. Mary Mason “Mame” Scott (1867-1934) was sleeping in the room when she awoke to see an apparition, a tall woman veiled in gray. The first recorded sighting of the ghost was in the 1880s in the southwest upstairs bedroom. The cause of death wasn’t determined, but theories range from heart attack to acute indigestion to exhaustion after a long hard journey. Varick became violently ill one night and died before morning. She died three days after arriving in Frankfort on July 28, 1817. Varick was traveling from New York to see her son in Illinois when she stopped in Frankfort to see her niece also named Margaretta. Margaretta Varick (1744-1817) was the aunt of Margaretta Mason Brown, the wife of John Brown. Many may not know that this famous ghost, often seen from the Palladian window at Liberty Hall, was based on a real person. The Gray Lady is Liberty Hall's best-known figure.
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