[ { "id": "MH-001", "title": "Mary E. Hart — Evergreen burial index", "category": "Burial records", "date": "1872-10-18 as indexed", "status": "Factual extract included", "summary": "Evergreen’s current search displays MARY E HART; Died: 10/18/1872; Age: 47; Section: EVERGREEN AVENUE; Plot: 50; Grave: 4.", "url": "https://evergreencem.org/search-burial-records/", "credit": "Evergreen Cemetery / webCemeteries", "notes": "This is a transcription of displayed database fields, not an original burial register or certificate. The label Died and October 18 are preserved. The monument gives October 15. Request the underlying ledger to determine whether the index contains a burial date or a transcription error. Query: Mary Hart.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-002", "title": "Mary E. Hart — monument inscription", "category": "Monument", "date": "1824–1872; monument date unverified", "status": "Transcription included", "summary": "The inscription records birth on December 16, 1824 and death at midnight on October 15, 1872, following a collapse at noon. These dates give age 47, not 48. The inscription does not state a medical diagnosis or prove premature burial.", "url": "https://www.damnedct.com/midnight-mary-new-haven/", "credit": "Mary E. Hart monument; inscription also reproduced on Evergreen’s linked memorial", "notes": "Historical inscription transcribed as published; lineation and punctuation should be checked against a new complete photograph. Its biblical phrase echoes Job 34:20. No current marker photograph is reproduced.", "file": "", "transcription": "THE PEOPLE SHALL BE TROUBLED AT MIDNIGHT AND PASS AWAY\nAT HIGH NOON\nJUST FROM, AND ABOUT TO RENEW\nHER DAILY WORK, IN HER FULL STRENGTH OF\nBODY AND MIND\nMARY E. HART\nHAVING FALLEN PROSTRATE:\nREMAINED UNCONSCIOUS, UNTIL SHE DIED AT MIDNIGHT,\nOCTOBER 15, 1872\nBORN DECEMBER 16, 1824", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-003", "title": "Mary E. Hart — operator-linked memorial", "category": "Folklore", "date": "Undated modern page", "status": "Linked source", "summary": "The cemetery-linked memorial repeats October 15 and presents the midnight curse, premature-burial and ghost traditions. Its narrative is displayed under an Obituary heading, but it is a modern commemorative account, not a recovered 1872 newspaper obituary.", "url": "https://remembermyjourney.com/memorials/mary-e-hart?id=Nlde9w6N", "credit": "Evergreen Cemetery / Remember My Journey", "notes": "External source; original image or full text is not included. No reproduction license established. Its age 48 conflicts with the monument’s birth and death dates. The page also confirms Evergreen Avenue, plot 50, grave 4.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-004", "title": "Fidelia Hart — nearby indexed plot", "category": "Burial records", "date": "08/14/1885 as indexed", "status": "Factual extract included", "summary": "Evergreen search displays FIDELIA HART; Died: 08/14/1885; Age: 85; Section: EVERGREEN AVENUE; Plot: 50; Grave: 3.", "url": "https://evergreencem.org/search-burial-records/", "credit": "Evergreen Cemetery / webCemeteries", "notes": "Read directly from the public search. Nearby plot numbers do not establish a family relationship or the physical arrangement of graves. Index dates are retained without silently correcting them. Search by the displayed name.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-005", "title": "James P. Hart — nearby indexed plot", "category": "Burial records", "date": "01/12/1877 as indexed", "status": "Factual extract included", "summary": "Evergreen search displays JAMES P. HART; Died: 01/12/1877; Age: 60; Section: EVERGREEN AVENUE; Plot: 51; Grave: 1.", "url": "https://evergreencem.org/search-burial-records/", "credit": "Evergreen Cemetery / webCemeteries", "notes": "Read directly from the public search. Nearby plot numbers do not establish a family relationship or the physical arrangement of graves. Index dates are retained without silently correcting them. Search by the displayed name.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-006", "title": "Joanna Hart — nearby indexed plot", "category": "Burial records", "date": "01/31/1870 as indexed", "status": "Factual extract included", "summary": "Evergreen search displays JOANNA HART; Died: 01/31/1870; Age: 77; Section: EVERGREEN AVENUE; Plot: 51; Grave: 2.", "url": "https://evergreencem.org/search-burial-records/", "credit": "Evergreen Cemetery / webCemeteries", "notes": "Read directly from the public search. Nearby plot numbers do not establish a family relationship or the physical arrangement of graves. Index dates are retained without silently correcting them. Search by the displayed name.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-007", "title": "Susan Pierpont — nearby indexed plot", "category": "Burial records", "date": "07/23/1887 as indexed", "status": "Factual extract included", "summary": "Evergreen search displays SUSAN PIERPONT; Died: 07/23/1887; Age: 94; Section: EVERGREEN AVENUE; Plot: 51; Grave: 3.", "url": "https://evergreencem.org/search-burial-records/", "credit": "Evergreen Cemetery / webCemeteries", "notes": "Read directly from the public search. Nearby plot numbers do not establish a family relationship or the physical arrangement of graves. Index dates are retained without silently correcting them. Search by the displayed name.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-008", "title": "Hart genealogy — title page (1875)", "category": "Historical scans", "date": "1875", "status": "Scan included", "summary": "Title page identifies Alfred Andrews’s Genealogical history of Deacon Stephen Hart and his descendants, 1632–1875, published by Austin Hart, New Britain, and printed by The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford.", "url": "https://archive.org/details/genealogicalhist00inandr/page/n11/mode/1up", "credit": "Alfred Andrews; Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center / Internet Archive", "notes": "Public-domain historical publication. Retain author, publication and digitizing repository credits. Image stored as lossless WebP; decoded pixels are unchanged from the prior PNG.", "file": "scans/andrews-1875-title-page-scan.webp", "transcription": "GENEALOGICAL HISTORY \nOF \nDeacon Stephen Hart \nAND HIS DESCENDANTS. \n1632. 1875. \nWITH AN INTRODUCTION OF MISCELLANEOUS HARTS AND THEIR PRO- \nGENITORS, AS FAR AS KNOWN; TO WHICH IS ADDED A LIST \nOF ALL THE CLERGY OF THE NAME FOUND, ALL5THE \nPHYSICIANS, ALL THE LAWYERS, THE \nAUTHORS, AND SOLDIERS. \nALFRED ANDREWS, NEW BRITAIN, CONN., \nMEMBER OF CONNECTICUT AND WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETIES, AUTHOR OF \"HISTORY OF NEW \nBRITAIN, CONN.,\" \" ANDREWS' MEMORIAL,\" AND \"' PEDIGREE OF THE HARTS.\" \nPUBLISHED EY \nAUSTIN HART, Esq., NEW BRITAIN. CONN. \nHARTFORD: \nThe Case, Lockwood cS: Braixard Co., Printers. \n■S75. \n", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-009", "title": "Hart genealogy — John Ariadna and Joanna Hart, p. 438", "category": "Historical scans", "date": "1875", "status": "Scan included", "summary": "Describes physician John Ariadna Hart’s marriage to Joanna Porter in 1815 and lists their son James Porter Hart, born July 27, 1817, Yale class of 1840. This is family context for names in the adjacent indexed plot.", "url": "https://archive.org/details/genealogicalhist00inandr/page/n476/mode/1up", "credit": "Alfred Andrews; Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center / Internet Archive", "notes": "Public-domain historical publication. Retain author, publication and digitizing repository credits. This page does not name Mary as James’s wife. Image stored as lossless WebP; decoded pixels are unchanged from the prior PNG.", "file": "scans/andrews-1875-page-438-scan.webp", "transcription": "438 HAET FAMILY. \nCharlotte Overton, daughter of Seth, of Chatham, Conn. They had \nno children. \n1 SOS>^. Natchez, Miss. \nDoctor James Everlin Hart, Natchez, Miss., second son of Dr. \nJohn Hart, and his wife, Hannah (Wilhams), born November 8th, \n1788, at Farming-ton. • He first located in Wintonbury, (now Bloom- \nfield,) Conn., and from thence he removed to Natchez, Miss., where he \nbecame a distinguished and successful physician. He died there of \nyellow fever, July 6th, 1823, aged 33 years. He left no family. \n1 SOS. Natchez, Miss. \nDoctor John Ariadna Hart, Natchez, Miss., third son of Dr. John \nHart, of Farmington, and his wife, Hannah (Williams), born Novem- \nber 17th, 1790, at Farmington; married February 27th, 1815, Joanna \nPorter, daughter of Samuel, of Berlin, born March 20th, 1792, at \nBerlin, where he was a practicing physician until he removed to Natchez, \nwhere he became associated with his brother, James, and was highly \nsuccessful until his premature death. He taught penmanship from \nGettysburg to Tennessee. He was a botanist, and was familiar with \nplants — from the hchen on the bleak rock of the north, to the magnolia \nof the south. He died of yellow fever, October 23d, 1822, aged 32 \nyears. \nTHEIR CHILDREN, BEING THE SEVENTH GENERATION. \nSon, born March 2d, 1816, at Farmington; died March 3d, 1816, aged 28 \nhours. \n2189. James Porter, born July 27th, 1817, at Farmington. He graduated at Yale \nCollege in 1840. \nJohn Linne, born at Natchez, March 6th, 1822; died July 30th, 1823, aged 1 \nyear. \nX S033^. Farmington, Conn. \nElizabeth Lawrence Hart, only daughter of Dr. John Hart, of \nFarmington, and his wife, Hannah (Williams), born April 9th, ] 793, \nin Farmington, and died there November 13th, 1807, in her 15th year. \nA sermon was preached at her funeral by Eev. Noah Porter, D. D., \nfrom 1 Peter i. 24, 25 — \"For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of \nman as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower \nthereof falleth away; but the word of the Lord endureth for ever.\" \n1 S04. Blendon, Ohio. \nGideon Williams Hart, Worthington, Ohio, fourth son of Doctor \nJohn Hart, of Farmington, and his wife, Hannah (Williams), born July \n", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-010", "title": "Hart genealogy — James Porter Hart, p. 495", "category": "Historical scans", "date": "1875", "status": "Scan included", "summary": "Entry 2189 identifies James Porter Hart as son of John Ariadna Hart and Joanna Porter, Yale class of 1840, with theological studies, residence in New Haven in 1872 and an interest in phonography.", "url": "https://archive.org/details/genealogicalhist00inandr/page/n537/mode/1up", "credit": "Alfred Andrews; Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center / Internet Archive", "notes": "Public-domain historical publication. Retain author, publication and digitizing repository credits. This entry does not establish Mary’s marriage or maiden name. Image stored as lossless WebP; decoded pixels are unchanged from the prior PNG.", "file": "scans/andrews-1875-page-495-scan.webp", "transcription": "BRANCH OF THOMAS. 495 \nbranch of the Mattabesett, and the former site of Percival's Mills. His \nface is very fairly represented in the engraving on the opposite page, \nand furnished by him at my urgent solicitation, for which he has my \nthanks. \nTHEIR CHILDREN, BEING THE EIGHTH GENERATION. \n2717. Louisa M., born August 28th, 184.5; married October 20th, 1866, Frederic A. \nCowles. \nSarah WoodrufF, born August 18th, 1847;'died May 30th, 1864, aged 16 years \nand 9 months. \nEllaM., born November 11th, 1849; died of consumption, November 20th, \n1860, aged 11 years. \n2718. Era Thomas, born July 25th, 1852. \n2719. Francis Gillette, bom March 15th, 1855. \n2720. Leuman Pease, born June 11th, 1858. \nS 1 SO. New Haven, Com. \nJames Porter Hart, New Haven, Conn., second son of Dr. John \nAriadna Hart, of Natchez, Miss., and his wife, Joanna (Porter), born \nJuly 27th, 1817, at Farmington, Conn. He graduated at Yale College \nin 1840, and studied theology at New Haven, where he was residing \nin 1872, and proposes to represent languages by letters. \n2 1 04. New Britain, Conn. \nSelah Hart, New Britain, Conn., second son of Deacon Ehjah \nHart, of the same place, and his wife, Anna, daughter of Hezekiah \nAndrews, born November 6th, 1784, at New Britain. He was a cooper \nby trade, but followed farming. He married October 5th, 1805, Je- \nmima, daughter of David Webster, Esq., of Berlin, Conn., and his \nwife, Anna (Kelsey), born April 5th, 1783. They settled in Hart \nQuarter, a locality of New Britain, only a few rods from the site of \nhis great-grandfather, the first Deacon Elijah. They became members \nof the First Church, August 5th, 1821. He had the military rank of \nmajor. He kept a hotel some years, and had one in Saratoga, N. Y. \nHe was an effective farmer. He died of dropsy, September 7th, 1851, \naged G8. His widow died July 6th, 1872, aged 89 years, 3 months, \nand 1 day. She was distinguished for her tall, qiieenly form, and lady- \nlike appearance and manners. \nTHEIR CHILDREN, BEING THE EIGHTH GENERATION. \n2721. Edward, born September 4th, 1806; married March 26th, 1834, Viana Perry, \nof Egremont. \n2722. Selah, born November 25th, 1808; married November 1 1 th, 1829, Sarah North. \n2723. Nelson, born November 25th, 1812; married October 8th, 1834, Lucy Jane \nDewy. \n", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-011", "title": "Yale obituary — James Porter Hart, p. 261", "category": "Historical scans", "date": "1877", "status": "Scan included", "summary": "The obituary reports James Porter Hart’s death on January 10, 1877, aged 59, and a February 11, 1846 marriage to Mary E. Pierpont of New Haven. It says she survived him with one son.", "url": "https://archive.org/details/1870t80obituary00yaleuoft", "credit": "Yale College; Robarts Library, University of Toronto / Internet Archive", "notes": "Public-domain historical publication. Retain author, publication and digitizing repository credits. The survival statement conflicts with identifying this wife as Mary who died in 1872. The 1873 Fidelia marriage notice supplies another lead, not a conclusive resolution. The obituary date and age also differ from Evergreen’s James entry.", "file": "scans/yale-obituary-page-261-source.jpg", "transcription": "Obituary record for graduates deceased during the academical year ending June 1877, in the bound volume 1870–1880. Yale University. Internet Archive contributor: Robarts — University of Toronto. The item copyright-evidence statement dates the bound volume 1880.\n\n1840.\nJames Porter Hart, second son of Dr. John A. Hart, and grandson of Dr. John Hart (Y. C. 1776), both of Farmington, Conn., was born in Farmington, July 27, 1817. His mother was Joanna, daughter of Samuel Porter, of Berlin, Conn.\nHe spent the three years after graduation in the Yale Divinity School, and afterwards resided in New Haven, where he died Jan. 10, 1877, aged 59 years.\nHe was interested in the science of phonography, and published several tracts on that subject. At an earlier period he took a warm interest in the settlement of fugitive slaves in Canada.\nHe was married, Feb. 11, 1846, to Mary E. Pierpont, of New Haven, who survives him, with one son.\n", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-012", "title": "Benham’s 1872–73 New Haven directory — Mrs. Mary E. Hart, p. 261", "category": "Historical scans", "date": "1872 (directory for 1872–73)", "status": "Scan included", "summary": "The directory lists Mrs. Mary E. Hart at 269 Orange and James P. Hart at 269 Orange, corner Bradley. This is a contemporary name-and-address lead; the directory alone does not establish that this Mary is the woman buried in plot 50.", "url": "https://archive.org/details/1872NewHavenCTDirectory", "credit": "J. H. Benham, printer and publisher, New Haven / Internet Archive", "notes": "Public-domain historical publication. Retain author, publication and digitizing repository credits. Do not replace the documented address with the Winthrop Avenue address used in later ghost stories.", "file": "scans/benham-1872-directory-page-261.jpg", "transcription": "Benham’s New Haven Directory and Annual Advertiser, 1872–’73. New Haven: J. H. Benham, 1872. Printed page 261. Selected visually checked entries:\nHart, James P., 269 Orange c Bradley\nHart, Mrs. Mary E., 269 Orange", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-013", "title": "College Courant — James P. Hart and Fidelia Pierpont marriage notice", "category": "Newspapers", "date": "1873-10-04", "status": "Search-index lead; scan not obtained", "summary": "Yale Personals in The College Courant, vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 143–144, reports the September 22 marriage of James P. Hart and Miss Fidelia Pierpont, both of New Haven. This is a related-person notice, not Mary’s obituary.", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/44975332", "credit": "The College Courant / JSTOR", "notes": "Public-domain historical publication. Retain author, publication and digitizing repository credits. The issue is identified as public domain in JSTOR’s catalog. Compare the actual marriage record before resolving the conflicting 1877 obituary. Notice wording was recovered from the search index. The attempted PDF returned a client challenge; its page image was not inspected.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-014", "title": "Census household leads, 1850–1870", "category": "Family research", "date": "1850; 1860; 1870", "status": "Underlying records not retrieved", "summary": "A 2017 genealogy study reports Mary E. Hart with Susan Pierpoint/Pierpont in 1850 and 1860 New Haven and 1870 Guilford; James P. Hart appears as a child in the first two households. It reports Mary as a seamstress in 1860.", "url": "https://rootsfinder.wordpress.com/2017/10/29/looking-at-midnight-marys-family-for-fun/", "credit": "Lisa Rex, Rootsfinder Family History", "notes": "Secondary-reported leads; original census images and identity linkage remain unverified. FamilySearch record identifiers: M685-X75 (1850), MHRM-XCB (1860), MN7J-FPD (1870).", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-015", "title": "Probate and relationship leads", "category": "Family research", "date": "1870; 1877; 1884–1885", "status": "Underlying records not retrieved", "summary": "The same genealogy study points to Joanna Hart’s 1870 estate, James P. Hart’s 1877 estate and Fidelia’s 1884 will. These may clarify family identities and cemetery-lot ownership.", "url": "https://rootsfinder.wordpress.com/2017/10/29/looking-at-midnight-marys-family-for-fun/", "credit": "Lisa Rex, Rootsfinder Family History", "notes": "No original probate image is included. Treat the blog’s relationships as leads until the wills, inventories and distributions are inspected. Search Pierpont and Pierpoint variants.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-016", "title": "Mary’s death record or certificate", "category": "Records to obtain", "date": "October 1872", "status": "Not obtained", "summary": "No original Mary Hart death certificate, town death entry or physician’s return was recovered in this research pass. New Haven Health directs researchers seeking records before 1877 to the Connecticut State Library.", "url": "https://nhvhealth.org/vital-statistics/", "credit": "New Haven Health Department", "notes": "Ask for the original entry and any surviving return, including date, cause, residence, age, informant and book/page reference. The New Haven 1897–2001 index in the Saint Bernard collection cannot cover this 1872 death. Do not treat later claims of apoplexy as a verified diagnosis.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-017", "title": "Burial register, permit, lot ownership and grave plan", "category": "Records to obtain", "date": "October 1872; plots 50–51", "status": "Not obtained", "summary": "Ask Evergreen for the underlying interment ledger, burial permit or burial return, lot-owner register and authenticated plot diagram for Mary E. Hart, Evergreen Avenue, plot 50, grave 4. Include adjoining plot 51 for comparison.", "url": "https://evergreencem.org/contact-us/", "credit": "Evergreen Cemetery", "notes": "Office: 769 Ella T. Grasso Boulevard, New Haven, CT 06519; 203-624-5505 or 203-865-5802; djfiore@evergreencem.org. Clarify the index’s Died: 10/18/1872 against the monument’s October 15. The cemetery states it has preserved records since 1848; this collection does not assert its records were lost.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-018", "title": "New Haven vital-record collection, FamilySearch catalog", "category": "Records to obtain", "date": "1639–1914 coverage", "status": "Catalog lead", "summary": "Catalog 580583 describes New Haven records of births, marriages and deaths, 1639–1902, and indexes, 1639–1914. Locate the volume covering deaths in October 1872 and the corresponding Hart index entry.", "url": "https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/580583", "credit": "New Haven Registrar of Vital Statistics / Town Clerk; FamilySearch", "notes": "Catalog identifier corroborated through indexed references; the catalog page and original record images could not be retrieved here. Image availability may depend on sign-in or an affiliate-library visit. No film or image number is asserted.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-019", "title": "Hale inscription survey — New Haven Museum MSS 23", "category": "Records to obtain", "date": "Survey 1934; finding aid 1975", "status": "Finding aid linked", "summary": "The museum’s MSS 23 inventory places Evergreen Cemetery inscriptions in Box 1, folders E–I. Box 3 holds the separate name index. Request the Hart and Pierpont entries with page headings and surrounding inscriptions.", "url": "https://www.newhavenmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/MSS-23.pdf", "credit": "New Haven Museum / Whitney Library", "notes": "The finding aid is not the complete inscription survey. Also cataloged as Ref F104.N6 H244. A 1934 transcription can document earlier marker readings, but is not a complete interment ledger.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-020", "title": "New Haven newspapers — October 1872 search route", "category": "Records to obtain", "date": "1872 and later", "status": "Holdings verified; clipping not obtained", "summary": "New Haven Free Public Library holds the Register from January 1871 and Palladium runs covering 1872. Request death and funeral notices for October 15–20, 1872, using Mary E. Hart, Mrs. Hart and Pierpont/Pierpoint variants.", "url": "https://nhfpl.org/how-do-i/research/local-history/", "credit": "New Haven Free Public Library", "notes": "Ives Main Library, 133 Elm Street; reference desk 203-946-8130; refdesk@nhfpl.org. The local-history collection also has clipping files. No 1872 obituary or funeral clipping has yet been obtained.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-021", "title": "Midnight Mary inspires a Halloween poem", "category": "Newspapers", "date": "2011-10-28", "status": "Article and photo linked", "summary": "Jim Shelton reports Vincent Casanova’s poem inspired by the local legend. The story documents Mary’s later cultural remembrance; it does not reproduce her death certificate. Arnold Gold’s accompanying photograph shows Casanova at the grave.", "url": "https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Midnight-Mary-inspires-as-muse-for-Clinton-man-s-11570226.php", "credit": "Jim Shelton; photograph Arnold Gold / New Haven Register", "notes": "External source; original image or full text is not included. No reproduction license established. The poem is not reproduced.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-022", "title": "Lantern tour visits Midnight Mary", "category": "Newspapers", "date": "2012-10-14", "status": "Article and photo linked", "summary": "Alexandra Sanders reports an Evergreen lantern tour associated with the New Haven Museum. An Arnold Gold photograph shows Mary’s grave. The article is evidence of public interpretation of the legend in 2012.", "url": "https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Take-a-lantern-and-go-visit-Midnight-Mary-at-New-11525692.php", "credit": "Alexandra Sanders; photograph Arnold Gold / New Haven Register", "notes": "External source; original image or full text is not included. No reproduction license established.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-023", "title": "Midnight Mary continues to haunt Evergreen Cemetery", "category": "Newspapers", "date": "2017-10-20; updated 2017-10-23", "status": "Article and photos linked", "summary": "Jessica Lerner reports local legends, museum interpretation and cemetery manager Dale Fiore’s recollection. Peter Hvizdak photographs document the monument. The supernatural anecdotes are recollections, not independently verified events.", "url": "https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Midnight-Mary-continues-to-haunt-Evergreen-12294839.php", "credit": "Jessica Lerner; photographs Peter Hvizdak / Hearst Connecticut Media", "notes": "External source; original image or full text is not included. No reproduction license established. The article’s age 48 differs from the monument’s dates.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-024", "title": "Connecticut Folklore: Fact or Fiction?", "category": "Folklore", "date": "1987", "status": "Curriculum linked", "summary": "Carolyn F. Stephenson’s Yale–New Haven Teachers Institute unit discusses Midnight Mary on PDF pages 5–6. It presents premature-burial, ghost and curse variants as material for studying folklore. It is an early dated written account located in this search, not proof of the story’s origin.", "url": "https://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/files/87.04.05.pdf", "credit": "Carolyn F. Stephenson; Yale–New Haven Teachers Institute, 1987, IV, unit 87.04.05", "notes": "External source; original image or full text is not included. No reproduction license established. Its diagnosis of apoplexy is not accompanied here by a recovered medical record. The bibliography points to David E. Philips, Legendary Connecticut (1984), and Glenn E. White, Folk Tales of Connecticut (1977); those books were not examined.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-025", "title": "Damned Connecticut — Midnight Mary", "category": "Folklore", "date": "2009-01-12", "status": "Article and photos linked", "summary": "Ray Bendici’s account transcribes the monument and discusses the premature-burial, vanishing-ghost and midnight-curse traditions. Steve Frank’s photographs document a snowy cemetery visit. The article and reader comments show modern storytelling, not eyewitness evidence from 1872.", "url": "https://www.damnedct.com/midnight-mary-new-haven/", "credit": "Ray Bendici; photographs Steve Frank / Damned Connecticut", "notes": "External source; original image or full text is not included. No reproduction license established.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-026", "title": "The Ghost of Midnight Mary", "category": "Folklore", "date": "2015-06-28", "status": "Article and photos linked", "summary": "Peter Muise recounts a visit to the grave and discusses the legend. The post includes modern monument photographs and a claim about a later monument restoration; no restoration invoice or association record was obtained here.", "url": "https://newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-ghost-of-midnight-mary.html", "credit": "Peter Muise / New England Folklore", "notes": "External source; original image or full text is not included. No reproduction license established.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-027", "title": "New England Legends, episode 221", "category": "Audio and culture", "date": "2021-11-11", "status": "Audio and transcript linked", "summary": "Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger’s episode explores Midnight Mary at Evergreen Cemetery. The dramatized storytelling is a record of contemporary folklore, not a reconstruction authenticated by an 1872 death or burial document.", "url": "https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-221-midnight-mary-in-evergreen-cemetery/", "credit": "Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger / New England Legends", "notes": "External source; original image or full text is not included. No reproduction license established.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-028", "title": "The Curse of Midnight Mary — Loren Connors", "category": "Audio and culture", "date": "Released 2009-02-17", "status": "Album linked", "summary": "The artist’s album page says the recordings were made at Evergreen Cemetery in 1981 and rediscovered in 2008. Nine pieces connect Mary’s legend with experimental acoustic music. The artwork is a modern artistic representation, not a lifetime portrait of Mary.", "url": "https://lorenconnorsnyc.bandcamp.com/album/the-curse-of-midnight-mary", "credit": "Loren Connors; mastered by James Plotkin", "notes": "External source; original image or full text is not included. No reproduction license established. Album page explicitly states all rights reserved. Recording circumstances are the artist’s account.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-029", "title": "Monument photograph — Flickr", "category": "Photographs", "date": "Taken 2008-01-01; uploaded 2008-07-12", "status": "Photo linked", "summary": "A visitor photograph identifies Mary’s gravesite at Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven. It documents the monument in the modern period, not Mary during her lifetime.", "url": "https://www.flickr.com/photos/nespirit/2660901748", "credit": "826 PARANORMAL / Flickr", "notes": "All rights reserved on the photograph’s page; image not copied into this archive.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-030", "title": "Grave of Midnight Mary — Atlas Obscura gallery", "category": "Photographs", "date": "Place entry 2012-05-21", "status": "Gallery linked", "summary": "The place entry includes contributor photographs of the grave and a folklore account adapted from J. W. Ocker’s New England Grimpendium. Individual photograph dates and rights must be checked on the source.", "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-midnight-mary", "credit": "J. W. Ocker and credited Atlas Obscura contributors", "notes": "External source; original image or full text is not included. No reproduction license established.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-031", "title": "NHI 1: Midnight Mary — Yale inscriptions project", "category": "Photographs", "date": "Page 2024-11-10", "status": "Photo and transcription lead", "summary": "A Yale-hosted inscriptions-project entry identifies Mary’s Evergreen monument and provides a photograph and transcription. The main page was intermittently unavailable during research; photographer identity and image date remain unverified.", "url": "https://campuspress.yale.edu/yaleinscriptions/2024/11/10/midnight-mary/", "credit": "New Haven Inscriptions project, Yale CampusPress", "notes": "Link only. No explicit open photo license was located. Page publication date does not establish when the photograph was taken.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-032", "title": "Evergreen Cemetery plan, November 1848", "category": "Maps", "date": "1848; published 1849", "status": "Historical map linked", "summary": "The plan appears in the 1849 Organization and By-laws of the Evergreen Cemetery Association, PDF page 4. It shows the cemetery’s early layout, 24 years before Mary’s death. No marker has been added purporting to locate her grave.", "url": "https://digitalcollections.drew.edu/SpecialCollections/19thCenturyPamphlets/Burial%2C_Cremation%2C_Cemeteries/19th_BurialCremation_Organization%20and%20By-Laws%20of%20the%20Evergreen%20Cemetery%20Association.pdf", "credit": "Evergreen Cemetery Association; S. Babcock, New Haven; Drew University Special Collections", "notes": "The historical publication is public domain by age. Drew’s repository policy requests permission for publication; this edition links to its copy and does not redistribute the scan.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-033", "title": "New Haven bird’s-eye view, 1879", "category": "Maps", "date": "1879", "status": "Historical map linked", "summary": "O. H. Bailey and J. C. Hazen’s city panorama supplies geographical context for late nineteenth-century New Haven. It is not a detailed cemetery lot plan or a picture of Mary’s residence.", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/75693153/", "credit": "O. H. Bailey and J. C. Hazen; Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division", "notes": "LOC item 75693153. A Commons copy is explicitly labeled public domain. Image download was unavailable in this session; no local map image is included.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-034", "title": "Evergreen’s current cemetery maps", "category": "Maps", "date": "Current operator page", "status": "Maps linked", "summary": "The cemetery provides a dedicated maps page. Use an authenticated operator map and office guidance to interpret historic section and plot labels.", "url": "https://evergreencem.org/cemetery-maps/", "credit": "Evergreen Cemetery", "notes": "No surveyed grave coordinates or internal lot boundaries are reproduced here. Plot numbers in a table do not determine the spatial position of an unmarked grave.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-035", "title": "A claimed 1979 college-newspaper series", "category": "Records to obtain", "date": "1979 claimed; recollection 2012", "status": "Unverified lead", "summary": "A reader identifying himself as John Poulton recalled a 1979 University of New Haven newspaper series about Midnight Mary in a January 2012 comment. The actual issues were not located.", "url": "https://www.damnedct.com/midnight-mary-new-haven/", "credit": "Reader comment on Damned Connecticut; identity and recollection unverified", "notes": "Ask University of New Haven archives to check 1979 Charger Bulletin issues, especially October. Do not cite a specific 1979 article as recovered or use this recollection to date the legend’s origin.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-036", "title": "Legends of Evergreen Cemetery — public history tour", "category": "Audio and culture", "date": "2024-10-26", "status": "Past event linked", "summary": "The New Haven Preservation Trust event listing describes an Evergreen tour including Midnight Mary, led by Kyle Driebeek and Kimberly Carew. It documents the legend’s role in public history programming.", "url": "https://nhpt.org/events", "credit": "New Haven Preservation Trust", "notes": "Past event; not a current visiting schedule. No claim about supernatural events is adopted as historical fact.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-037", "title": "Benham’s New Haven directory — title page", "category": "Historical scans", "date": "1872 (directory for 1872–73)", "status": "Scan included", "summary": "The title page identifies Benham’s New Haven Directory and Annual Advertiser, 1872–’73, number thirty-three, printed and published by J. H. Benham in New Haven in 1872.", "url": "https://archive.org/details/1872NewHavenCTDirectory", "credit": "J. H. Benham / Internet Archive", "notes": "Public-domain historical publication. Whole right-hand title page extracted from the source spread; no decorative edits. Image source: https://archive.org/download/1872NewHavenCTDirectory/page/n17.jpg", "file": "scans/benham-1872-directory-title-page.jpg", "transcription": "Benham's New Haven Directory and Annual Advertiser, 1872–'73. Number Thirty-Three. New Haven: Printed and published by J. H. Benham. 1872.", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "" }, { "id": "MH-038", "title": "NHI 1: Midnight Mary (Evergreen Cemetery) — image 1", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "2024-11-10", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "Mary E. Hart's pink granite grave monument and epitaph in Evergreen Cemetery.", "url": "https://campuspress.yale.edu/yaleinscriptions/2024/11/10/midnight-mary/", "credit": "Photographer unverified; New Haven - Yale Inscriptions", "notes": "Unverified; no open license confirmed. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.yale.edu/dist/0/4814/files/2024/11/midnight-mary1.jpg" }, { "id": "MH-039", "title": "Grave of Midnight Mary — image 1", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "2012-05-21", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "Mary E. Hart grave, as identified in J.W. Ocker's Atlas Obscura listing.", "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-midnight-mary", "credit": "J.W. Ocker (credited as OddThingsIveSeen.com); Grave of Midnight Mary", "notes": "No open license displayed; page footer says All Rights Reserved. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://img.atlasobscura.com/Y5SZZaGd4OSFRY9vMbnj4d5Z78YyCNjz8oJd90cZG8k/rt%3Afit/w%3A1200/q%3A80/sm%3A1/scp%3A1/ar%3A1/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdGxh/cy1kZXYuczMuYW1h/em9uYXdzLmNvbS91/cGxvYWRzL3BsYWNl/X2ltYWdlcy9jZmE1/OTc5MGIyYmFjOTlh/YTJhNzMzMDc5Zjcw/ODE3Y2I2MTIzOTY3/LmpwZw.jpg" }, { "id": "MH-040", "title": "Grave of Midnight Mary — image 2", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "2012-05-21", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "Visitor photograph in the Midnight Mary grave gallery.", "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-midnight-mary", "credit": "huntberel / Atlas Obscura User; Grave of Midnight Mary", "notes": "No open license displayed; page footer says All Rights Reserved. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://img.atlasobscura.com/XKkXROj9MFN0STM10UMrLPe63sKXDGThyA5F2RG8Ybs/rt%3Afit/w%3A1200/q%3A80/sm%3A1/scp%3A1/ar%3A1/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdGxh/cy1kZXYuczMuYW1h/em9uYXdzLmNvbS91/cGxvYWRzL3BsYWNl/X2ltYWdlcy9hNzQ0/MGUwZS02MDA3LTRi/NDgtODQ3Yi05Mzgw/ODAxZDFkMGViYjA3/NTlhMTY0NjM4NTEy/NDFfSU1HXzQ4MDQu/anBlZw.jpg" }, { "id": "MH-041", "title": "Grave of Midnight Mary — image 3", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "2012-05-21", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "Reverse face of the grave monument; source labels this Back of Grave.", "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-midnight-mary", "credit": "SemiruralYeti / Atlas Obscura User; Grave of Midnight Mary", "notes": "No open license displayed; page footer says All Rights Reserved. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://img.atlasobscura.com/rUuI4wgfhFE2Zy-UZBAmVEMaswvrNaazFI_cdrgTrGg/rt%3Afit/w%3A1200/q%3A80/sm%3A1/scp%3A1/ar%3A1/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdGxh/cy1kZXYuczMuYW1h/em9uYXdzLmNvbS91/cGxvYWRzL3BsYWNl/X2ltYWdlcy9mODE3/N2U1NC1jN2ZkLTRh/YTUtOTcxYS0wZmU5/NWVlNzM2YTg2YTk5/MGY4YjFjM2U0MGNh/NzdfSU1HXzkzMTcu/anBlZw.jpg" }, { "id": "MH-042", "title": "Grave of Midnight Mary — image 4", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "2012-05-21", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "Side face of the grave monument; source labels this Side of grave.", "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-midnight-mary", "credit": "SemiruralYeti / Atlas Obscura User; Grave of Midnight Mary", "notes": "No open license displayed; page footer says All Rights Reserved. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://img.atlasobscura.com/mjsctD9LFda7AxjgULiMreapt_bM8vhrEHl7-EIoN6Q/rt%3Afit/w%3A1200/q%3A80/sm%3A1/scp%3A1/ar%3A1/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdGxh/cy1kZXYuczMuYW1h/em9uYXdzLmNvbS91/cGxvYWRzL3BsYWNl/X2ltYWdlcy9hMDc2/MzE4ZS1jNTZjLTQ2/ZjQtYTVkZS1jMmM5/YmJjYTY5ZWNiMjQz/ZDlhODc5NzIyZmQ1/MGZfSU1HXzkzMTYu/anBlZw.jpg" }, { "id": "MH-043", "title": "Grave of Midnight Mary — image 5", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "2012-05-21", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "Additional visitor view in the Mary Hart grave gallery.", "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-midnight-mary", "credit": "SemiruralYeti / Atlas Obscura User; Grave of Midnight Mary", "notes": "No open license displayed; page footer says All Rights Reserved. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://img.atlasobscura.com/KHfjgQy3FWdyY2EF-U55KFOF_S9P_aOuBrH6XgcU45A/rt%3Afit/w%3A1200/q%3A80/sm%3A1/scp%3A1/ar%3A1/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdGxh/cy1kZXYuczMuYW1h/em9uYXdzLmNvbS91/cGxvYWRzL3BsYWNl/X2ltYWdlcy8wZWQz/NDUzNy1iYzQyLTQ4/YTctYmM2ZS0yMGYy/M2I2ODllMmVkOTNi/OGVjZTllNzM0Y2Vh/ZjhfSU1HXzkzMTQu/anBlZw.jpg" }, { "id": "MH-044", "title": "Grave of Midnight Mary — image 6", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "2012-05-21", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "Additional visitor view in the Mary Hart grave gallery.", "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-midnight-mary", "credit": "SemiruralYeti / Atlas Obscura User; Grave of Midnight Mary", "notes": "No open license displayed; page footer says All Rights Reserved. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://img.atlasobscura.com/gmjI7eK4a6o1eNh_x-T-161Jm7IUo85wzGC4xtwonqk/rt%3Afit/w%3A1200/q%3A80/sm%3A1/scp%3A1/ar%3A1/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdGxh/cy1kZXYuczMuYW1h/em9uYXdzLmNvbS91/cGxvYWRzL3BsYWNl/X2ltYWdlcy9mMzZi/NjY1OS0yYmY2LTQ3/YTUtOGNmYS02ZTg2/M2MwY2ZhMjk2ZDky/NjJiZmU4YTViZjBm/OTBfSU1HXzkzMTUu/anBlZw.jpg" }, { "id": "MH-045", "title": "Grave of Midnight Mary — image 7", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "2012-05-21", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "Additional visitor view in the Mary Hart grave gallery.", "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-midnight-mary", "credit": "SemiruralYeti / Atlas Obscura User; Grave of Midnight Mary", "notes": "No open license displayed; page footer says All Rights Reserved. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://img.atlasobscura.com/J9ev-hjcnEvnvUIHAadBb_qKk-1SEmj_hTFaGpMxQJM/rt%3Afit/w%3A1200/q%3A80/sm%3A1/scp%3A1/ar%3A1/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdGxh/cy1kZXYuczMuYW1h/em9uYXdzLmNvbS91/cGxvYWRzL3BsYWNl/X2ltYWdlcy8xZDdj/NjAyMy01M2Y5LTRm/OTAtOTA5YS1lZGU0/YTJmOWFlYmZiMjI2/NTUyYzdkMzEwZjEx/NTZfSU1HXzkzMTMu/anBlZw.jpg" }, { "id": "MH-046", "title": "Grave of Midnight Mary — image 8", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "2012-05-21", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "Visitor photograph in the Midnight Mary grave gallery.", "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-midnight-mary", "credit": "missingfilm / Atlas Obscura User; Grave of Midnight Mary", "notes": "No open license displayed; page footer says All Rights Reserved. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://img.atlasobscura.com/FOL5tKlomLCxT49npAl_G867sLXyBhQKO25yvyeMvBg/rt%3Afit/w%3A1200/q%3A80/sm%3A1/scp%3A1/ar%3A1/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdGxh/cy1kZXYuczMuYW1h/em9uYXdzLmNvbS91/cGxvYWRzL3BsYWNl/X2ltYWdlcy82NDMx/NjIyYS0wZTU4LTQ4/MjgtOTljNS1hNGMw/ZTgwNmY2MjZhZDJm/ODNmZWUwNjE1Njgx/MTBfMDc0QTMzQ0Ut/NjE4OC00MzFFLThD/NEItMEQzMUU1NkIx/NEI3LmpwZWc.jpg" }, { "id": "MH-047", "title": "Midnight Mary, New Haven — image 1", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "January 2009 (visit month stated in article)", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "Close view of Mary Hart's monument lettering.", "url": "https://www.damnedct.com/midnight-mary-new-haven/", "credit": "Steve Frank; Midnight Mary, New Haven", "notes": "No open license found. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://www.damnedct.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/dsc00873-300x225.jpg" }, { "id": "MH-048", "title": "Midnight Mary, New Haven — image 2", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "January 2009 (visit month stated in article)", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "Mary Hart's large granite monument viewed from the cemetery road in winter.", "url": "https://www.damnedct.com/midnight-mary-new-haven/", "credit": "Steve Frank; Midnight Mary, New Haven", "notes": "No open license found. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://www.damnedct.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/dsc00877-300x225.jpg" }, { "id": "MH-049", "title": "Ghost/Haunting/Legend: The Grave of Midnight Mary - New Haven, CT — image 1", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "2016-12-15", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "First view of the grave and its setting in a 2016 visitor account.", "url": "https://tm01001.blogspot.com/2016/12/ghosthauntinglegend-grave-of-midnight.html", "credit": "tm01001 (author identifies taking the photographs); Ghost/Haunting/Legend: The Grave of Midnight Mary - New Haven, CT", "notes": "No open license found. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDOsEAHjbd8oEoqqNMnnT-GYb0x5JkZSm5a33RaZLuky90tDZ1LBspH8JGqEY8VrULZk82iNSV0MHKlMdf0_xs2ETSP6njEeiWpk3Z1oWBGvTPFruqtiL73k-UYaPDqEvqkDX0GDVbOk5r/s640/P1000062.JPG" }, { "id": "MH-050", "title": "Ghost/Haunting/Legend: The Grave of Midnight Mary - New Haven, CT — image 2", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "2016-12-15", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "Mary Hart's pink granite monument, with the epitaph face visible.", "url": "https://tm01001.blogspot.com/2016/12/ghosthauntinglegend-grave-of-midnight.html", "credit": "tm01001 (author identifies taking the photographs); Ghost/Haunting/Legend: The Grave of Midnight Mary - New Haven, CT", "notes": "No open license found. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsjf5SMHf3dcG3EaKr50tpRHEqUMjqrDG4iimxqPMyuzBEaB4_o4-p2Lq2F1feglZHuW4AIyRvkzIp3MuNUkYlhMaR5NdddYpV7IRGDEXJtp_RyVWlupPakbTEYD2ePbWDykQVl3ppc8S7/s640/P1000064.JPG" }, { "id": "MH-051", "title": "Ghost/Haunting/Legend: The Grave of Midnight Mary - New Haven, CT — image 3", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "2016-12-15", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "Third grave photograph accompanying the detailed epitaph transcription.", "url": "https://tm01001.blogspot.com/2016/12/ghosthauntinglegend-grave-of-midnight.html", "credit": "tm01001 (author identifies taking the photographs); Ghost/Haunting/Legend: The Grave of Midnight Mary - New Haven, CT", "notes": "No open license found. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIVFyCxqpn8LuPcRWdNliLbD0ouH698-tKLrw2BsqDwhw3GfpF1aQWpYxlRw5qh2G_Mch7ZOhgUUik7tjI30TZvK7OueiXomVsHtOLhuT63r-65cSFLCT9QHwJchr-bqsn4ksZHUo57V9h/s640/P1000065.JPG" }, { "id": "MH-052", "title": "The Ghost of Midnight Mary — image 1", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "Shortly before June 28, 2015, per article; exact day unknown", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "Mary Hart grave photograph placed immediately after the article's grave-location description.", "url": "https://newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-ghost-of-midnight-mary.html", "credit": "Peter Muise (attributed by firsthand visit narrative; no separate photo byline); The Ghost of Midnight Mary", "notes": "No open license found. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLgT6uUQgoX4tSy3V3PF4_fTAXtCWpHIZLlCkVyaEjkAtsX2Ldy63Wu2qbDOcplsvK8Cnljnf_4ehd_H5BISnAwX5rLGITRhkULs_IhvaJyEQVgUqWeRuKsH5konynl8Y_EK6hnnhhDz2a/s400/IMG_2758.JPG" }, { "id": "MH-053", "title": "The Ghost of Midnight Mary — image 2", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "Shortly before June 28, 2015, per article; exact day unknown", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "Additional photograph in the Mary Hart grave discussion; exact view should be checked before assigning a detailed caption.", "url": "https://newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-ghost-of-midnight-mary.html", "credit": "Peter Muise (attributed by firsthand visit narrative; no separate photo byline); The Ghost of Midnight Mary", "notes": "No open license found. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggY9qSdfyYYxsGKnsfXbnY1FgiFgaXyEiyXHTANJNSmi6W5PUTaJUliGebbQBuXjNGUnCnGLTGIo333LPFB1LbHQ57dGjlrhCJCiyATu3oJiaYOAu_kEmAHUI6JtjeFQ8kfoJJbTVj2DeB/s400/IMG_2755.JPG" }, { "id": "MH-054", "title": "The Ghost of Midnight Mary — image 3", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "Shortly before June 28, 2015, per article; exact day unknown", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "Additional photograph in the Mary Hart grave discussion; exact view should be checked before assigning a detailed caption.", "url": "https://newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-ghost-of-midnight-mary.html", "credit": "Peter Muise (attributed by firsthand visit narrative; no separate photo byline); The Ghost of Midnight Mary", "notes": "No open license found. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaJWEhbkD5Y_Dotlynw5mi7FB3zKirxz3ZsM_rKFA-ecvlOHlzVHVONSJtFLB1eCMDneiL3tUDdlgQykzjzJ8gYFmbV_w8OJHVWYbYsfeEFEKEcddztaK19zQ4WhN7icylJ2jYp2CSuo0L/s400/IMG_2759.JPG" }, { "id": "MH-055", "title": "New Haven, CT - Midnight Mary's Grave — image 1", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "2017-09-05", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "Grave image accompanying a visitor's location tip.", "url": "https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/9970", "credit": "Gretchen (associated contributor); New Haven, CT - Midnight Mary's Grave", "notes": "All rights reserved; page expressly forbids reproduction without written permission. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/ct/CTNHAmidnightmary_gretchen.jpg" }, { "id": "MH-056", "title": "New Haven, CT - Midnight Mary's Grave — image 2", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "April 2006 (photo-added date)", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "Earlier published visitor photograph of Midnight Mary's grave.", "url": "https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/9970", "credit": "Photographer unverified; New Haven, CT - Midnight Mary's Grave", "notes": "All rights reserved; page expressly forbids reproduction without written permission. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/ct/CTNHAmidnightmary1_drissel.jpg" }, { "id": "MH-057", "title": "Midnight Mary continues to haunt Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven — image 1", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "2017-10-20; updated 2017-10-23", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "Mary E. Hart's grave at Evergreen Cemetery, photographed for the New Haven Register.", "url": "https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Midnight-Mary-continues-to-haunt-Evergreen-12294839.php", "credit": "Peter Hvizdak / Hearst Connecticut Media; Midnight Mary continues to haunt Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven", "notes": "Copyrighted press photo; no open license displayed. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://s.hdnux.com/photos/66/71/11/14389861/4/rawImage.jpg" }, { "id": "MH-058", "title": "Take a lantern and go visit Midnight Mary at New Haven cemetery — image 1", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "2012-10-14", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "Mary Hart's gravestone photographed for a 2012 museum lantern-tour article.", "url": "https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Take-a-lantern-and-go-visit-Midnight-Mary-at-New-11525692.php", "credit": "Arnold Gold / New Haven Register; Take a lantern and go visit Midnight Mary at New Haven cemetery", "notes": "Copyrighted press photo; no open license displayed. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://s.hdnux.com/photos/64/42/42/13772975/4/1200x0.jpg" }, { "id": "MH-059", "title": "The Haunting Legend of Midnight Mary at Evergreen Cemetery in CT — image 1", "category": "Grave photograph links", "date": "2018-10-15", "status": "External photograph reference", "summary": "View of Mary Hart's epitaph reproduced from video credited to Marisol Velasco.", "url": "https://i95rock.com/midnight-mary-still-haunts-evergreen-cemetery-in-new-haven/", "credit": "Marisol Velasco (source credits a YouTube video; likely frame/screenshot); The Haunting Legend of Midnight Mary at Evergreen Cemetery in CT", "notes": "No open license; Townsquare Media footer says All rights reserved. Image reference and source credit included; photograph bytes are held by the publisher. Publication dates are not necessarily camera dates. Identification follows the publisher’s caption; image details have not been independently verified at full resolution.", "file": "", "transcription": "", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "external_image_url": "https://townsquare.media/site/677/files/2018/10/fullsizeoutput_2c5e.jpeg" } ]