Today on the Grave Talks, the May Stringer House, a conversation with Christian Paul.

The May Stringer House started as a homestead in 1842, only to be added on several years later as it would come into the form it's seen as today.

With life being shorter at that point in time, the house would see several of its inhabitants' lives come to an abrupt end, but their bodies being buried in unknown locations

throughout the property. Today, the house is built with local relics of the past. Who now haunts

the May Stranger house? Is it former residents or souls attached to the antiques, stored in its

halls? We discuss all of that today with Christian Paul on the gravetops. Okay, the May stringer property was originally homesteaded in 1842 by a man by the name of Richard

Wiggins.

Okay.

Now, back then, there was some kind of thing with the government that if you took over X amount of acres of land and you built a house on it and you cultivated it after five years, they would give you the land.

So Richard Wiggins was there all the way up till John May brought the property in 1855.

Now this is where the first part of the May stringer name gets his name is from John May.

When he bought the property, he built a four-room house on this property for his family.

Okay.

Now, John lived there with his wife, Morena.

He had two daughters at the time, Matilda and Annie.

Now, I really don't know too much about Matilda or Annie other than what I just read

in historical record. And I did not find much about them anywhere.

And from being there, I really didn't learn anything about them.

Okay.

Three years after he builds the house, John dies of consumption.

Now, consumption, for people that don't know, consumption is actually tuberculosis.

So it was probably kind of an agonizing, kind of an agonizing death, I would guess.

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