Green - Amer
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, Friday, 5 July 1901
Delphi, Ind., June 26—A ghost has received official recognition in the action of Trustee Jesse Martin of Jackson Township, Carroll County, when he gave a contract for the erection of a new school building in the Walnut Grove district. Several years ago Amer Green was lynched by a mob for the murder of his sweetheart, Luella Mabbitt, the hanging taking place at a tree in the Walnut Grove schoolyard. Since then the children have been filled with superstitious terror in regard to the place and the once large school dwindled to two pupils last winter, and after a few weeks’ effort to get others to attend, school was dismissed. Strange stories were told about the place.
Green’s ghost was reported to have been seen, and the teachers reported that they heard inexplicable sounds about the building.
No teacher could be found to accept the school for next winter and in response to the insistent demands of the patrons a new building will be erected a short distance away, the old site being abandoned. -s