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Note: US Census
1850: The South Division, Surry Co., NC
1860: [Unamed Location], PO Yadkinville, Yadkin Co., NC
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Excerpted from Ghost Tales From the North Carolina Piedmont, L. D. Tanenbaum & B. McGee, Bandit Books, Winston-Salem, NC, � 2002.
HUNT HOUSE
You might see her walking along the second floor balcony; hers is a whispery, white figure. If the wind is right, you might hear weeping and moaning sounds. You think that surely the balcony of this dilapidated house is not strong enough to withstand the woman's agitated pacing. And, as you wonder, the figure evaporates. It's the ghost of Hunt House. The story of the Hunt House in Yadkin County is one of beauty,
tragedy, and mystery.
The house was built around 1840, two decades before the Civil War. The two-story house has three porches, with double doors on both floors, opening onto the front porches. Known for its intricately carved plaster ceilings, the house is now in a state of decay. Sarah Byrd Dalton, widow of Jonathan Dalton, moved into the home shortly after it was built. Her daughter, Julia, and Julia's husband, Henry Corman, lived there with her. Henry Gorman was a plasterer, and probably did the work on the walls and ceilings. The house was grand in its day -the mainstay of society in Huntsville. There were, undoubtedly, many parties attended by politicians and military officers, who danced with the southern belles of the area. Yet the grandeur was only on the surface. Like the rot working beneath the fancy plaster, tragedy found its way into the lives of these gentry.
In 1854 Julia gave birth to a son, Paul. The child was never healthy. His parents showered him with love and attention. To avoid sickness, he was rarely allowed to go outdoors. But all of his parents' careful doting could not save Paul. He died in 1858, at age four years, four months, and two days. Henry Gorman died within a short time, and Julia was left to cope with her losses. Julia couldn't, however, accept her son's death. She wandered around the house, calling his name. Servants and neighbors could hear her at night, roaming the woods, or standing for hours on the second-floor balcony, calling, "Paul, Paul!" She lost her mind, and her calls eventually became shrieks. "Paul," she wailed, " my son!" Whether she jumped from the balcony or lost her balance will never be known for certain, but Julia fell, was impaled on a wooden cow stob, and died.
The beauty of the mansion is gone, but the stories survive. And the woman on the balcony? Perhaps it's Julia Gorman, calling for her son. Or Daisy Hunt, witnessing over and over the murder of her lover. It could even be an angry Molly Hunt. She was buried not two feet from Will Kelly, the boy she may have murdered. Certainly, she would not have considered him good enough to lie that close to her for all eternity.
SEE ALSO GENEALOGY OF LEANDER G. HUNT.
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Originally Posted by LuvMyDog 25 Aug 2007
THANKS MARIA FOR THE INFO.......THAT IS WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR IS INFO ON THE HUNT-DALTON HOUSE AND WHAT HAPPENED THERE? YOU ARE SUCH A GOOD DETECTIVE YOU ALWAYS SEEM TO FIND ALL THE PIECES TO THE PUZZLE. THANKS!...........
I will fill you all in....here is some history of the place.
The house was built in 1840 by Henry J Gorman. He built it on the land which was owned by his Mother In Law. She was Sarah Dalton. Henry and his wife Julia had a son named Paul who died in 1854 when he was 4 years old. Henry died shortly after. Julia could not cope and commited suicide by jumping from the 2nd floor balcony. Mrs Dalton ( Sarah) moved to Texas stating she could not live in a house that was so haunted.
There is more a man named Hunt bought the house in 1880. He was a DR I think. He was married to a lady named Molly they had a daughter named Daisy. Mr. hunt died when she was 14 [1896] and her Mom became too over protective of her. She was very beautiful. Her mother killed Daisy's lover whom she was going to run away with...there on the ground of the Dalton Hunt house. Little did Molly know but Daisy was pregnant. Molly never faced charges for murdering Daisy's lover.
Daisy had a Son his name was Jack. He had some sort of birth defect that caused him to have scaly looking skin like a fish.He was born with no oil glands. His Mother and his Grandmother locked him in the basement for many many years because he was so gruesome looking. His mother Daisy died in 1934 and his grandmother died in 1935.
Jack grew up to be a very mean man. He was accused of killing several people but it was never proven. If there is any place that is haunted this place would be good bet.
I visited this place when I was 18 years old. You could see lights floating around in the house there have been no electricity in it for years. It is very scary looking even on the day time.They say you can see a woman standing in the upstairs window...and hear howls and yells from the basement.
My brother-in-law on a dare went in and unscrewed the light bulbs in the place when he was a teenager just to make sure there was no chance of the lights coming on. They waited in their car to see if the lights would come on as they often did. He said he and his buddy were in his car and it was pitch dark...he said something started at the rear of the car and scratched like some one digging a key in to the paint they were setting still the whole time. He said they could not see nothing. They got out of there as fast as they could go. He said when they stopped there was in fact a scratch from front to rear all the way to the paint.
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