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concluded it had to be a ghost but how did they get a ghost in their brand new home?
They found the answer underneath Mrs. Russell’s flower garden. Beneath the irises and dahlias was the foundation of an old house, the house where Polk Baggarly died.
The story of the Baggarly ghost, mentioned briefly in the house tour bulletins and in pre-tour publicity in the Rappahannock News, was carried by word of mouth to Reston, Virginia, and Mr. Baggarly's granddaughter. Caro Turner Borden wrote the News, supplying the following background information which may interest ghost fanciers and county history buffs.
“Uncle Polk was named James Knox Polk Baggarly and he was the youngest of 13 boys and the handsomest, it was said. (One of his brothers was Bradford Baggarly, father of Franklyn Clyde of Avon Hall in Washington.)
“He married Kate Sears, daughter of Doctor Robert Sears, and it was his wife’s death at childbirth that left him inconsolable and rootless
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