Photo by Mona Lambert West |
Photo by Mona Lambert West |
In 1932, Dixie gave birth to a baby girl named Nora Louise. Nora was born premature, at only 6.5 months gestation, and only lived for 12 hours. However, Dixie would go on to give birth in 1938 to a baby boy, named Charles Wilson Counts. Although not stillborn, as the legend says, Charles would not live to adulthood.
Photo by Mona Lambert West |
On September 26, 1939, Dixie V. Counts died in Logan County of tuberculosis. She was buried in the Lambert (Spry) Cemetery next to her daughter. Little Charlie would last another two months, but he too died of tuberculosis shortly after his first birthday, on December 27, 1939.
Death Certificates for Dixie V. Counts and her two children can be found at the following link:
Find-A-Grave. All photos are from Find-a-Grave as well and were taken by Mona Lambert West.
If you choose to visit this location to check out the legends for yourself, please remember to be respectful. While the idea of glowing tombstones and apparitions of a woman and child are fascinating, at the end of the day, these legends still represent the fact that a young mother and two babies were taken from this earth too soon.
Dixie was my grandfather's sister and this is completely not true. As a family we honestly don't know how this crazy story even got started. But thank you for actually correcting it with the truth.
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