Reputation
Mary's claim to fame is as a reputed ghost. However she never really haunted the place she was reputed to haunt. There were two Wallace houses in the town of Henniker, one the home of her son Robert, and the other the home of her son William.
The story of haunting was begun by Louis Roy who owned the Robert Wallace house and has now been discredited. While it lasted it was quite a tale of pirates, treasure, and all sorts of hauntings associated with such. It is doubtful that Mary ever saw the pirate after his ship departed.
William's house became the town poor farm in 1840 and burned to the ground in 1923. Robert's home, built in 1760, still stands today. Mary lived with her son William. Reputedly she didn't care for Robert, and it is doubtful that she ever visited him.
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Famous quotes containing the word reputation:
“Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.”
—Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899)
““What have I earned for all that work,” I said,
“For all that I have done at my own charge?
The daily spite of this unmannerly town,
Where who has served the most is most defamed,
The reputation of his lifetime lost
Between the night and morning....””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)