She died on May 22, 1962, at Barnwell County Hospital, at approximately the age of seventy-seven.

The death was real and was reported by local newspapers.

A story about her alleged premature burial in 1915 was reported in the Augusta Chronicle on August 25, 1955, forty years after the alleged events.

That 1955 article was based on a second-hand account provided by Dr.

O.D.

Hammond, a local physician who claimed to have treated a minister injured during the alleged burial.

Dr.