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Windsong AFGS
In the Town of Lebanon Tn. there lived a women at the turn of the century named Adda Mae. She met a man who was a traveling snake oil salesmen and fell in love with him. He promised her he'd stop on his way back east from CA and take her to NJ to marry. (Delta Dawn what's that flower you have on? Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?) He had enough stuff on his wagon to make a small killing on his way west and then back east. So off he went and Adda waited for his return. But he never did return....
after some years Adda would walk down to the city square with her rattan suitcase and look for and wait for him. As cars replaced horses and times changed Adda Mae stayed the same. Some people think her mind slipped after her beau left to go west. Others said she was always a bit odd. (In her younger days they called her Delta Dawn, prettiest woman you ever laid eyes on. Till a man of low degree stood by her side. And promised her he'd take her for his bride.) Sometimes she'd be sitting in the square all day until her father, in his small one horse wagon came for her to take her home. (She's 41 but her father still calls her baby. Folks round town here, they just call her crazy. 'Cause she walks down town with a suitcase in her hand... looking for a mysterious dark haired man.) Few knew exactly where she lived as she had no close friends. (Did I hear you say he was a meetin' you here today - to take you to his mansion in the sky?)
In due time she passed away and few knew or realized Adda Mae was gone. But then... on snowy nights or when the mist or fog is deep there was seen an image of a small women, dressed in black in the clothes of 1900 walking around the square... always on the other side from those who saw her. She had her yellow rattan suitcase with her and she didn't seem to see anyone who tried to get her attention. She'd just vanish into the mist or snowfall if anyone tried to get close. She never said a word to anyone. She was seen on side streets and along the roads of this town. Only in the winter, and mostly during heavy snowfalls which are not common there.
Every 10 years or so Ada makes her appearance for a winter and then vanishes again. In the 70's she was most active and because of a song popular then people started to call her Delta Dawn. One couple walking around the square late at night looked into an antique shop window and there sat Delta Dawn, on an antique sofa. They couldn't believe their eyes. She sat looking out the window and right through this couple. Her rattan suitcase was right at her feet. Was she waiting for her long lost beau to return? As they watched her sit there she simply faded away. Another person claimed they saw her sitting on a porch of a house right off the square during a heavy snowfall. She just started ahead. When they stopped the car for a better look she was gone. During the 80's she was scarce and the sightings were few the old woman told me. A lady doing her dishes one evening looked out her kitchen window to see Delta Dawn walking slowly by outside the hedges.... same old black cloak and clothing, same black hat with feathers.
Who is this spirit? The old lady didn't know except the story told her by her own mother. She'd never met the living Adda. No one knew the family well as they lived out of the town on a farm and stayed to themselves. Was Adda crazy? Was there ever really a beau? Where was her mother? How did she die? No one seems to know.....
Story told by a 81 year old lady in Murfreesboro Tn. -- Carol .....
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