Yesterday we visited the tiny town of St. Francisville, pop. 2000. It used to be a major shipping port before 1927 flooding destroyed much of it. Remains were moved to higher ground. Took a ride around town and a tour of the supposedly haunted Myrtle Plantation house. Supposedly planter took Chloe a field slave as a mistress and made her a house slave. One thing led to another and she poisoned his wife and two kids. She was accordingly hanged and now haunts the place. This is a “cottage” plantation. Planter grew indigo before switching to cotton.
Myrtle PlantationToday we see Natchez, Mississippi.
Now that looks more like central Virginia! One ancestor’s only brother died in a steamboat accident. Maybe you don’t want to think about this at this time. 😉 But it was in 1889. His obit in the Lynchburg “News”:
“A telegram was received here yesterday from Nashville, Tenn., conveying the distressing intelligence of the death at that place of Mr. John W. Harris, a brother of Mrs. R.H. Boatwright, of this city. It will be remembered that Mr. Harris was recently injured in the steamboat disaster on the Mississippi River, and it was from these injuries that he died.”
We’ll have to hope the technology has improved!
It has!