They say that on some still nights a ghostly figure of a woman can be seen wandering around this old Quaker cemetery. She is looking for someone…but whom?
The story goes that Agnes of Glasgow, a Scottish woman whose last name has not been divulged by history, fell in love with a British officer named Lt. Angus McPherson during the American Revolution. When he came to America to fight, she could not be apart and stowed away on a ship, hoping to find him. Her ship docked in Charleston and McPherson had written her, telling her that he was in Camden, South Carolina, some 127 miles to the west.
Sadly, accounts say that McPherson was a bit confused over the names of the different cities in Colonial America and he may very well have been in Charleston while she was there!
So Agnes took whatever means to find her lover. What today would take a couple hours by car would have been an arduous journey filled with danger and sickness during the Revolutionary War.
Sadly, by the time Agnes reached Camden, she was deathly ill. Her voice probably called out to her lover, but he was nowhere to be found. And she died…alone and without him.
Like all good ghost stories, it is said that in immortality, Agnes still searches for Lieutenant McPherson…roaming her earthly prison…the old cemetery.
Eternal love…eternal loss…another intriguing tale from Stories, Secrets and Sagas.
