Okay I found out so much the last week it has been interesting

On this subject the details are fuzzy on things .......
The girl did die at the age of 13, Witches are not buried they are burned,
their ashes are not buried. Some people say she is a Witch others say she
was just a popular little girl that was well loved by her parents. She was
re-searched and her obituary was found in the Newspapers archive and
nothing was ever found on the cause of her death. The archive that was
searched through at the Newspaper office was auctioned off by the
Independent when it was purchased by the Dispatch. (I have no idea why the
books were auctioned off and where they are at now. Someone suggested
contacting the Ashbrook family to see if they have the papers. )

Every couple of years the story comes back on the teenagers within this
town go nuts over facinating little stories and attempt to go out to the
Cemetary. Rumors are everywhere on her and why .....
1.) Emerson house was located in town and was later used as a Funeral home.
For some reason and no one seems to know yet (at least the people I am
talking to) as to why the Emerson house was taken down.
On Sarah Emerson -
Stories say she became ill for no reason and then started babbling. That
when she pointed at others that visited her they became ill and died. (Now
a days you can account the babbling to a fever and the virus she had was
contagious.) They tried to burn the house down and destroy her when her
parents were out one evening. Upon returning home they got the fire out and
discovered that she had died and they buried her out in the country where
no one would know about her and leave her grave alone. There is another
Emerson family buried out there right next to her. Her parents are not
buried out there we searched through the graveyard to see. If you look at
Sarah's grave site there are three red flowers and a child beaded necklace
left there for her. By who ............. no one knows. No flowers have been
planted by any of the other Emerson Graves.

I took pictures and when I get home from work I will get them loaded to
computer.

The poem on the gavestone will explain as to why people may think what they
think.

Young People all as you pass by
As you are now once was I
As I am now you soon will be
Prepare for death and follow me
My dust is mouldering back to dust
My soul returned to God
May those who read know soon they must
Lie cold beneath the clod.

Of Monster death why blast so soon
The flower that just began to bloom
But boast thou now weel not complain
For Sarah soon shall rise again
Then in that resurrection morn
We all shall meet her in the sky
From our cold graves dark and forlorn
We'l bask in scenes that never die

D. Stockwell
Harlem Delaware Co Ohio


The graveyard is located out Concord Road and then you turn left at the
Liberty Church. In the center of the Cemetary on the hill is a pillar
gravestone. The family site is shadded by trees