History & local legend
An iron kettle associated with General Anthony Wayne is the focus of a ghost story told about Erie's Watson-Curtze Mansion and its museum collections. The object's history explains why a general who never lived in the mansion would enter its lore.
Wayne died in Erie in 1796. In 1809, his son Isaac arranged to take his remains to the family burial place in southeastern Pennsylvania. The body was boiled so that the bones could be transported, while other remains stayed in Erie. Wayne consequently has two graves.
In the account collected by Haunted Rooms America, the kettle is said to rattle at night, and some tellers place Wayne's apparition near it in the kitchen.
