I took a special road trip out to Westport after our conversations about the haunted house on Old Bedford Road in Westport.
The reason I haven't heard anything about it is because it is no longer standing. I was shocked to find a pre-fabricated commercial building on the sight (commercial space available) surrounded by a black-top parking lot. When the house went down and the building went up I do not know.
The boulder on the grounds where people claimed to see ghosts has been removed. The one point of interest is that the trees and brush which used to obscure the old cemetery from view are gone. The cemetery did indeed jut into the former haunted property. Its entrance is on Sanford Road.
The graves include Alice Sampson and Everett Gifford, some barely legible stones with the name Pettey, a pair of Macombers, and the balance of the graves (a good number) are all members of the Wordell family. The last member of the family to be buried there was in 1954. The legible stones go back to the 1850s with some earlier, illegible stones.
Perhaps there were just too many spooky stories about the house to ever make it a desirable place to live...
The Westport Haunted House is no more
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This wouldn't be the Wordell cemetery in Westport where William Henry Cook, b.1841 and died 6 Jun 1919, is buried??? His wife was Elizabeth (Betsy) Wodell, daughter of Charles Wodell and Lovisa Wodell (yes, same surname!) and she died in 1911. Significance is, if I am correct, they are the parents of Henry Wilson Cook, the one I asked for a death record or obit for. I have he is buried in the Wordell cemetery in Westport.
Gramma
This wouldn't be the Wordell cemetery in Westport where William Henry Cook, b.1841 and died 6 Jun 1919, is buried??? His wife was Elizabeth (Betsy) Wodell, daughter of Charles Wodell and Lovisa Wodell (yes, same surname!) and she died in 1911. Significance is, if I am correct, they are the parents of Henry Wilson Cook, the one I asked for a death record or obit for. I have he is buried in the Wordell cemetery in Westport.
Gramma
She was acquitted!
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