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Drish lay in state in the upper tower, with candles burning around the body.
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Drish bolted out of bed one night and tumbled down the winding, double elliptical staircase, dying in the fall.
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A story titled "Death Lights in the Towers" in "13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey" (first published in 1969) by folklorists Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh, made the Drish history famous.
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Drish prospered both in medicine and farming, though some of his fortune came from his marriage to Sarah McKinney, who, like him, was widowed.
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Some of Helen's property remained in the Drish Mansion; the slaves were said to be superstitious of touching them, believing the ghost of "Miss Helen" would get them if they moved her effects.
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Drish prospered both in medicine and farming, though some of his fortune came from his marriage to Sarah McKinney, who, like him, was widowed.
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But tales of the tormented Drish family have been told often since, and even earlier in the 1958 book "Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Its Early Days, 1816-1865," by Matthew W. Clinton.
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Some of Helen's property remained in the Drish Mansion; the slaves were said to be superstitious of touching them, believing the ghost of "Miss Helen" would get them if they moved her effects.
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Drish invested in railroads, endeavored to bring a cotton mill to town and was elected to the state Legislature.
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A story titled "Death Lights in the Towers" in "13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey" (first published in 1969) by folklorists Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh, made the Drish history famous.
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