AMELIA: The Lady In White Of Lucy's Run

AMELIA:

THE LADY IN WHITE OF LUCY'S RUN

Charles Robinson and his family were originally from Maryland and moved to Batavia in the autumn of 1797. Robinson built a cabin on the site of the present day Batavia Township Cemetery on Lucy Run Cemetery Road. The cabin in 1808 was formed as a meeting place and developed into the present day Amelia Methodist Church. Lucy Run would later become a stagecoach route.

The Legend of the Lady in White begins with one of the Robinson girls, Lucy is the most mentioned, but she was a cousin who lived in Union Township. Regardless who the young lady was, she was in love with a young man who had arrived early one evening to announce he had fallen in love with another and would not be visiting the Robinsons again.

While the two young people were talking, the sky had suddenly blackened and a steady shower poured down on the couple. The young man mounted his horse and left down the slick muddy trail. Young Miss Robinson was not quite ready to end the conversation or see her sweetheart leave. She went to the family stable, mounted her horse and went after him. In her desperation to catch up with her love, she did not notice the water of Lucy's Run had already overflowed its banks and was rising over the road. The horse slipped in the mud and the young woman was tossed into the waters. Stunned from the fall, and seriously injured she couldn't pick herself up and drowned in the floodwaters of the high, raging waters of Lucy's Run.

For more than 150 years, a figure in white, who is assumed to be the Robinson girl has been seen running across the road from where it is believe her body was eventually found, to the cemetery where she is buried. On bright moonlit nights, it is reported she can be seen with a flowing white veil covering her face and neck wearing a long white dress, which floats behind her as she runs across Lucy Run Cemetery Road.

Perhaps on night, as someone rounds up the old loop near the cemetery, they may see emerging from behind a gravestone, the shape of a man appear running to meet the young lady reuniting the young lovers at last.


	AMELIA: THE LADY IN WHITE OF LUCY'S RUN Charles Robinson and his family were originally from Maryland and moved to Batavia in the autumn of 1797. Robinson built a cabin on the site of the present day Batavia Township Cemetery on Lucy Run Cemetery Road. The cabin in 1808 was formed as a meeting place and developed into the present day Amelia Methodist Church. Lucy Run would later become a stagecoach route. The Legend of the Lady in White begins with one of the Robinson girls, Lucy is the most mentioned, but she was a cousin who lived in Union Township. Regardless who the young lady was, she was in love with a young man who had arrived early one evening to announce he had fallen in love with another and would not be visiting the Robinsons again. While the two young people were talking, the sky had suddenly blackened and a steady shower poured down on the couple. The young man mounted his horse and left down the slick muddy trail. Young Miss Robinson was not quite ready to end the conversation or see her sweetheart leave. She went to the family stable, mounted her horse and went after him. In her desperation to catch up with her love, she did not notice the water of Lucy's Run had already overflowed its banks and was rising over the road. The horse slipped in the mud and the young woman was tossed into the waters. Stunned from the fall, and seriously injured she couldn't pick herself up and drowned in the floodwaters of the high, raging waters of Lucy's Run. For more than 150 years, a figure in white, who is assumed to be the Robinson girl has been seen running across the road from where it is believe her body was eventually found, to the cemetery where she is buried. On bright moonlit nights, it is reported she can be seen with a flowing white veil covering her face and neck wearing a long white dress, which floats behind her as she runs across Lucy Run Cemetery Road. Perhaps on night, as someone rounds up the old loop near the cemetery, they may see emerging from behind a gravestone, the shape of a man appear running to meet the young lady reuniting the young lovers at last.