ICYMI: No Ghoulies, No Ghosties, But a Witch? Yep.

 

Painting that many attribute as Mary Bliss Parsons, but it is NOT- no known images exist of her. Unknown source.

McMURRAY Family, BURNELL Family (Click for Family Tree)

While yesterday’s post’s image headline was “Bleeding in a Cemetery,” it really told a sad story that we didn’t want to be a Halloween read. So just in case you missed it (ICYMI), please read about the ‘witch’ in one line of the family history, Mary Bliss Parsons. Mary Bliss was born in 1628 in Gloucestershire, England, arrived in Connecticut as a child and spent her adult life in Massachusetts, where she died in 1712. We have a four-part series telling what we know about Mary, and you can begin here:

No Ghoulies, No ghosts, But a Witch? Yep.

 

And yes, the witch trials, which were not only in Salem, were also a very sad part of our history.

 

Notes, Sources, and References: 

  1. “No Ghoulies, No Ghosties, But a Witch? Yep.,” Heritage Ramblings, 31 Oct 2015. https://heritageramblings.net/2015/10/31/no-ghoulies-no-ghosties-but-a-witch-yep-part-1/

 

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