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If tales are true, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Menefee have “laid the ghost” at “San Jacinto,” their charmingly re-modeled home on the Sperryville-Washington road. It seems sad to think of the lady ghost being unable to find her way about in the changed rooms, hut so the tales run, for a ghost is supposed to be forever “laid” if the house’ is changed.
The lady ghost of San Jacinto is supposed to be Mrs. Ambler, a tenant of years ago. She appears to have been thoroughly harmless and amused herself by creeping about and opening doors. However, colored servants and some members of the family were not as amused as the elderly ladyghost, for gossip says that Mrs. Willis, who was credited with not having been overly kind to her elderly mother, moved from San Jacinto. She followed the advice of the day which informed her that if one crossed water, a ghost could not follow; so Mrs. Willis crossed the brook about one-half mile from San Jacinton and built “Trianon.” '
Trianon is a two-story. Frenchtype chalet with gable-shaped windows. Some people referred to it as “the house of seven gables." The weatherboards run vertically and the house today is of a brown color and in a poor state of preservation. It was last occupied by the Jack Nicholas family. At the present time Trianon is owned by Mrs. Mattie (lore Hopkins of Shenandoah.
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