History & local legend
An old Butler story places a floating woman above North Side Cemetery at dusk on Decoration Day, the holiday now generally called Memorial Day. Workers were said to watch a patch of mist gather over a grave and, within a minute or two, take the shape of a tall woman.
The figure rose roughly a hundred feet into the air, drifted west over the trees and disappeared into the valley. William Campbell told the story in the 1950s, when a listener wrote it down.
Retired teacher Jim Clements recounted that written version to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Susan Seibel in 2002. He described the woman’s flight but declined to reveal her name or identify the grave.
