WIDOW SUSAN ROAD
Road — Widow Susan Road, Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/widow-susan-road-amsterdam-new-york/

Public road and historical marker preserving a widow-searching-for-a-grave legend.

Widow Susan Road is a road in Amsterdam, New York. Public road and historical marker preserving a widow-searching-for-a-grave legend. Tourism identifies Susan Thomas DeGraff as a nineteenth-century Amsterdam resident who died in 1892 and was buried at Green Hill Cemetery. Local lore holds that Local legend describes Susan DeGraff’s crying apparition in a white dress searching along the road for her husband’s grave.

Widow Susan is the misplaced — the 'Green Hill' that's the burial wrong, the 'family plot ruined' that's the reason given. The 'searching' is the paced — the 'white dress crying' that's the ghost's walk, the 'husband's grave' that's the never found. The 'say three times' is the summoned — the 'name called' that's the ritual tried, the 'apparition appears' that's the witnesses' claim.
The 'four cemeteries' is the lined — the 'St. Michael's, Casimir's, Nicholas's' that's the road's dead, the 'where she's seen' that's the most often. The 'historical marker' is the stood — the 'Pomeroy granted' that's the '18 erected, the 'legend verified' that's the town's word. Widow Susan is the lost — the 'wrong cemetery' that's the confusion eternal, the 'still searching' that's the road's name.
The file keeps Widow Susan: the wrong burial, the searching ghost, the three-times call, and the marker's text.
Widow Susan is the archive's New York file — the wife buried away from her husband.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Widow Susan is the archive's New York file — the ghost looking for her husband's grave.
A road keeps its widow — the file's suggestion being that Susan's hold is the misplaced: the 'Green Hill' that's the wrong rest, the 'four cemeteries' that's the search's field, and the 'three times' that's the summon's price.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] apparition: Local legend describes Susan DeGraff’s crying apparition in a white dress searching along the road for her husband’s grave. Witnesses name it Widow Susan; the name travels further than the proof. The crossing keeps its reports the way roads keep their warnings — repeated, local, and hard to fully dismiss. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The account appears in 'Widow Susan Road'. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.
  source: Widow Susan Road (https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/widow-susan-road)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Tourism identifies Susan Thomas DeGraff as a nineteenth-century Amsterdam resident who died in 1892 and was buried at Green Hill Cemetery. Widow Susan Road's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath the roadside lore. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Widow Susan Road' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Widow Susan Road — Haunted History Trail of New York State
  https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/widow-susan-road

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