It produces legend — which is a different thing, equally human and equally interesting, but requiring different standards of interpretation.

Essie Dunbar’s Life After the Burial

Whatever the truth of the events of 1915, the documented facts of Essie Dunbar’s subsequent life are clear enough in their broad outlines, even if the specific details remain sparse.

She was born in approximately 1885, which would have made her about thirty years old in 1915 and about seventy years old when the Chronicle article was written in 1955.

She lived in the Blackville area throughout the documented period of her life.