House in question: 203 North Main Street, Galena, Kansas Photo courtesy of Janice Wilson Weakley Snippets of Things Remembered Robert M. & Ruby J. Wilson Family Owners, 1959-1962 “We moved into the house in 1959 and my 81 year old grandpa, William Jesse Wilson painted the entire inside and outside. My parents Robert & Ruby Wilson bought wardrobes, as there were only two closets in the house. We were a family of eight..5 girls and one brother. The house had beautiful big, ornate fireplaces. Daddy went to an auction and bought oriental rugs for the whole house. Sadly, the fireplaces & rugs were stolen as soon as we moved. We love the old house & what they have done with it now is a disgrace; a real eyesore for Galena. Our family & other relatives wish it had been torn down. No murders- if there were my mom would have never moved in, trust me.” Janice Wilson Weakley Sept. 8, 2013 Duke Edward Bullard Owner, 1962 “I remember Duke Bullard in the early 1960’s. He was a man tall in stature, had a fun-loving sense of humor and was very creative. One of his creations was a home-made still in the attic with which he produced a concoction he called “Raisin Jack”. He warned me to never drink it raw, but to always dilute it. Suggestion taken. Once he cracked an egg in a bowl, added a splash of Raisin Jack and it cooked the egg. I don‘t remember any one mentioning stories of the home being a bordello or a place of murder.” Barbara Lewis McLean. Sept 8, 2013 My Mom Ruby Moody knew the Wilson’s when they lived there and it wasn’t haunted back in the late 1940’s or 1950’s. Susan Himes Carr “I was raised by my Grandparents, who were both born in 1879 in Galena. They were both very interested in local history and told me much about early times and days in Galena. My Grandmother, Edna May (Wood) Martin, was born where City Hall is now, or where it was anyway when I left Galena in the early 1960’s. Up until around 1951, we lived in Cave Springs, where the chemical plant is. We lived in the last house there and had to move when the chemical plant began construction. We drove by the house in question virtually every day going back and forth from Cave Springs to Galena. Not once, never, did my grandfather, Noah martin, nor did Edna May, ever say anything about that house. They did talk about many far less interesting area of note. Grandma did mention on occasion a story about a woman and family knocking miners in the head and dumping them in a shaft, back during the horse and buggy days. That was in the 1950’s when she made the mentions. I don’t recall where these murders occurred by her account, but they had nothing to do with a house in the region of Front Street, the house in question that has raised such a debate. The location she alluded to as I recall, is the area heading to Empire from Galena, across the bridge and up the hill to the west. No one in Galena during that time ever said anything about the house on Front Street. If that had indeed been the history of that house, Grandma would not have kept it to herself. Her Mother, by the way, ran a boarding house in Empire. When I left Galena in the early 1860’s, the Wilson family was renting that house.” Bryce Martin Scotty Shaw, who was once the “Chief Of Police” in Galena a long time ago. He’s dead now, but I worked with him. We talked a lot and he was not one to lie and long before anyone was interested in the house he said that he had seen some official documents of a woman who confessed on her death bed that she had killed some miners and threw them down an abandoned mine shaft, BUT it wasn’t that house, the way he talked in was on Empire on the hill. He wishes to remain “Anonymous” because of what is going on in Galena. My Grandfather and Grandmother, Ernest and Ruth Mary Clark Hayes, had the service station across the street from the house in the 1950’s. My Sister, Janet, and myself or any of our family ever heard a word about that house being haunted. If there was a rumor to that effect our Grandparents or parents would have told us. Now, the woman, Melba Rigg, that runs the service station called “Cars on the Route” across the street from the house, told my sister, Janet Brewer, that the station is also haunted. When Janet went there to purchase the “fake story” D.V.D. of the house for me. Now Janet, and her friend, Colleen McLean spend a lot of time at that station, when my Grandfather ran it, and never once saw a “ghost”. And the beat goes on! Carolyn Roach McLean House in question: 203 North Main Street, Galena, Kansas Photo courtesy of Janice Wilson Weakley Snippets of Things Remembered Robert M. & Ruby J. Wilson Family Owners, 1959-1962 “We moved into the house in 1959 and my 81 year old grandpa, William Jesse Wilson painted the entire inside and outside. My parents Robert & Ruby Wilson bought wardrobes, as there were only two closets in the house. We were a family of eight..5 girls and one brother. The house had beautiful big, ornate fireplaces. Daddy went to an auction and bought oriental rugs for the whole house. Sadly, the fireplaces & rugs were stolen as soon as we moved. We love the old house & what they have done with it now is a disgrace; a real eyesore for Galena. Our family & other relatives wish it had been torn down. No murders- if there were my mom would have never moved in, trust me.” Janice Wilson Weakley Sept. 8, 2013 Duke Edward Bullard Owner, 1962 “I remember Duke Bullard in the early 1960’s. He was a man tall in stature, had a fun-loving sense of humor and was very creative. One of his creations was a home-made still in the attic with which he produced a concoction he called “Raisin Jack”. He warned me to never drink it raw, but to always dilute it. Suggestion taken. Once he cracked an egg in a bowl, added a splash of Raisin Jack and it cooked the egg. I don‘t remember any one mentioning stories of the home being a bordello or a place of murder.” Barbara Lewis McLean. Sept 8, 2013 My Mom Ruby Moody knew the Wilson’s when they lived there and it wasn’t haunted back in the late 1940’s or 1950’s. Susan Himes Carr “I was raised by my Grandparents, who were both born in 1879 in Galena. They were both very interested in local history and told me much about early times and days in Galena. My Grandmother, Edna May (Wood) Martin, was born where City Hall is now, or where it was anyway when I left Galena in the early 1960’s. Up until around 1951, we lived in Cave Springs, where the chemical plant is. We lived in the last house there and had to move when the chemical plant began construction. We drove by the house in question virtually every day going back and forth from Cave Springs to Galena. Not once, never, did my grandfather, Noah martin, nor did Edna May, ever say anything about that house. They did talk about many far less interesting area of note. Grandma did mention on occasion a story about a woman and family knocking miners in the head and dumping them in a shaft, back during the horse and buggy days. That was in the 1950’s when she made the mentions. I don’t recall where these murders occurred by her account, but they had nothing to do with a house in the region of Front Street, the house in question that has raised such a debate. The location she alluded to as I recall, is the area heading to Empire from Galena, across the bridge and up the hill to the west. No one in Galena during that time ever said anything about the house on Front Street. If that had indeed been the history of that house, Grandma would not have kept it to herself. Her Mother, by the way, ran a boarding house in Empire. When I left Galena in the early 1860’s, the Wilson family was renting that house.” Bryce Martin Scotty Shaw, who was once the “Chief Of Police” in Galena a long time ago. He’s dead now, but I worked with him. We talked a lot and he was not one to lie and long before anyone was interested in the house he said that he had seen some official documents of a woman who confessed on her death bed that she had killed some miners and threw them down an abandoned mine shaft, BUT it wasn’t that house, the way he talked in was on Empire on the hill. He wishes to remain “Anonymous” because of what is going on in Galena. My Grandfather and Grandmother, Ernest and Ruth Mary Clark Hayes, had the service station across the street from the house in the 1950’s. My Sister, Janet, and myself or any of our family ever heard a word about that house being haunted. If there was a rumor to that effect our Grandparents or parents would have told us. Now, the woman, Melba Rigg, that runs the service station called “Cars on the Route” across the street from the house, told my sister, Janet Brewer, that the station is also haunted. When Janet went there to purchase the “fake story” D.V.D. of the house for me. Now Janet, and her friend, Colleen McLean spend a lot of time at that station, when my Grandfather ran it, and never once saw a “ghost”. And the beat goes on! Carolyn Roach McLean House in question: 203 North Main Street, Galena, Kansas Photo courtesy of Janice Wilson Weakley Snippets of Things Remembered Robert M. & Ruby J. Wilson Family Owners, 1959-1962 “We moved into the house in 1959 and my 81 year old grandpa, William Jesse Wilson painted the entire inside and outside. My parents Robert & Ruby Wilson bought wardrobes, as there were only two closets in the house. We were a family of eight..5 girls and one brother. The house had beautiful big, ornate fireplaces. Daddy went to an auction and bought oriental rugs for the whole house. Sadly, the fireplaces & rugs were stolen as soon as we moved. We love the old house & what they have done with it now is a disgrace; a real eyesore for Galena. Our family & other relatives wish it had been torn down. No murders- if there were my mom would have never moved in, trust me.” Janice Wilson Weakley Sept. 8, 2013 Duke Edward Bullard Owner, 1962 “I remember Duke Bullard in the early 1960’s. He was a man tall in stature, had a fun-loving sense of humor and was very creative. One of his creations was a home-made still in the attic with which he produced a concoction he called “Raisin Jack”. He warned me to never drink it raw, but to always dilute it. Suggestion taken. Once he cracked an egg in a bowl, added a splash of Raisin Jack and it cooked the egg. I don‘t remember any one mentioning stories of the home being a bordello or a place of murder.” Barbara Lewis McLean. Sept 8, 2013 My Mom Ruby Moody knew the Wilson’s when they lived there and it wasn’t haunted back in the late 1940’s or 1950’s. Susan Himes Carr “I was raised by my Grandparents, who were both born in 1879 in Galena. They were both very interested in local history and told me much about early times and days in Galena. My Grandmother, Edna May (Wood) Martin, was born where City Hall is now, or where it was anyway when I left Galena in the early 1960’s. Up until around 1951, we lived in Cave Springs, where the chemical plant is. We lived in the last house there and had to move when the chemical plant began construction. We drove by the house in question virtually every day going back and forth from Cave Springs to Galena. Not once, never, did my grandfather, Noah martin, nor did Edna May, ever say anything about that house. They did talk about many far less interesting area of note. Grandma did mention on occasion a story about a woman and family knocking miners in the head and dumping them in a shaft, back during the horse and buggy days. That was in the 1950’s when she made the mentions. I don’t recall where these murders occurred by her account, but they had nothing to do with a house in the region of Front Street, the house in question that has raised such a debate. The location she alluded to as I recall, is the area heading to Empire from Galena, across the bridge and up the hill to the west. No one in Galena during that time ever said anything about the house on Front Street. If that had indeed been the history of that house, Grandma would not have kept it to herself. Her Mother, by the way, ran a boarding house in Empire. When I left Galena in the early 1860’s, the Wilson family was renting that house.” Bryce Martin Scotty Shaw, who was once the “Chief Of Police” in Galena a long time ago. He’s dead now, but I worked with him. We talked a lot and he was not one to lie and long before anyone was interested in the house he said that he had seen some official documents of a woman who confessed on her death bed that she had killed some miners and threw them down an abandoned mine shaft, BUT it wasn’t that house, the way he talked in was on Empire on the hill. He wishes to remain “Anonymous” because of what is going on in Galena. My Grandfather and Grandmother, Ernest and Ruth Mary Clark Hayes, had the service station across the street from the house in the 1950’s. My Sister, Janet, and myself or any of our family ever heard a word about that house being haunted. If there was a rumor to that effect our Grandparents or parents would have told us. Now, the woman, Melba Rigg, that runs the service station called “Cars on the Route” across the street from the house, told my sister, Janet Brewer, that the station is also haunted. When Janet went there to purchase the “fake story” D.V.D. of the house for me. Now Janet, and her friend, Colleen McLean spend a lot of time at that station, when my Grandfather ran it, and never once saw a “ghost”. And the beat goes on! Carolyn Roach McLean 
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