Allegra Eggleston Seelye
Personal
Gender: Female
Date of Death: August 8, 1901
Death Place: Ithaca, NY
Allegra Eggleston Seelye
YOUNG LADY FOUND DEAD
Granddaughter of Edward Eggleston Killed by Strange Accident Near Cornell College Campus
Ithaca, N.Y., Aug. 9. – With her body hanging by the feet over the brink of Fall Creek gorge, just back of the Cornell campus, her face discolored and bruised, Allegra Eggleston Seelye, granddaughter of the historian and author, Edward Eggleston, was found dead late Thursday afternoon by Miss Ellsworth, a student in Sage college.
Miss Seelye was a graduate student of Cornell, and had been entertaining a number of members of her sorority, Kappa Gamma Gamma, at the Seelye home in University avenue, this city. Thursday her guests left and in the afternoon she was seen by neighbors to leave the house alone. She went for a walk along a path leading along Forrest lake and the gorge, where there is a heavy forest growth. A violent thunderstorm came up, and it is supposed she sought shelter beneath the large tree where her body was found. Some girls who were in a house near after the storm had subsided made a search of the wood, knowing that some damage had been done, and found her body behind a tree burned and charred by a stroke of lightning.
Published in The Daily News, (Marshall, MI) August 9, 1901 front page
[Granddaughter of SGS # 2502 – Allegra Eggleston; Elwyn; Reuben (# 2502); Reuben (# 915); David; Justus; John; Benjamin; Nathaniel; Robert]
