Comments on: Hannah Cranna

By: Heather

Heather — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:17:45 +0000

As for the excellent conditiion of the head stone of Hannah Cranna. I went to school with a girl that her father maintaned the Cemertaries and Hannah’s head stone would be periodically replaced to keep her happy!

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:21:33 +0000

I grew up in Trumbull and my parents told me the story of Hannah Cranna. From what I heard the townspeople originally tried and hung her for the murder for her husband in ’59. She subsequently came “Back to Life” and roamed the streets for a few more months until the townspeople burned her house down, with her in it. This supposedly did the trick, and resulted in there being the 2 dates of death.

There is also the local legend that if you jump over her gravestone you will break your leg within the next year. No idea if this is true or not.

By: Danielle G

Danielle G — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:27:43 +0000

i live in Monroe and my grandmother lives on the same street as Hanna Cranna did. she said when she bought the house the people selling it told her all about the legend. my dad was a part of the Monroe historical society so he also knew about it. when the family would get together they would often talk about it and one time i listened in. i was scared out of my wits. ( note i was 6 ) my dad could tell. Dani, your scared! no i”m not i said! so he put me in the car and took me to the grave. i was so scared but filled with questions. daddy, why is it white? daddy why was she mean? daddy why wouldn’t that woman give her a pie? daddy, if you go fishing and a witch sees you will you die? daddy, daddy, daddy,. all the questions pored out of my mouth. now we go every year for the past 6 years. now we have a new part of the family who is 7 years old and she also loves the grave. if you haven’t been and you are in the neighbor hood i recommend you go.

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By: stolidog

stolidog — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:05:33 +0000

I grew up in Monroe. The story that I heard was that Hanna strangled her husband, and her husband’s mistress, and threw their bodies into the pond in front of her house. It took three days to bring the coffin up the hill, and snow never sticks in the tombstone’s shaddow. In the summer, the pond where she threw her husband is always covered with a green slime, although all the other ponds nearby are crystal clear.

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First in Flight? - Damned Connecticut — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:18:47 +0000

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By: cassie

cassie — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:21:36 +0000

I live quite close to where hannah supposedly lived. today its a typical family house, but the road has been renamed. the brooke is still there. growing up though i heard a slightly different version of the story. having lived in monroe my entire life, its natural to hear about the infamous hannah cranna and how she “brought herself to the grave.” heres the story i know…
hannah cranna was outcasted by the towns people of monroe for her alleged fasination of the occult. no one really can say how legit this was, but whatever they were superstitious. so she married, and years later her husband died. still, no one knows how exactly he died, weatcher it was accidental or if he was sickly…or even if hannah did it. but you know, typically it was veiwed that hannah did it, which only isolated her more and scared the towns people. *a few details in the story get alittle foggy* but i know that she died sad and alone in the late winter of 1859. being as feared as she was, they didnt find her body until the next march. thats why theres two death dates on her grave…no one was really sure if she died in 1859 or 1860. but it is rumored that before her death, in the rage of being outcasted and shutout of the neighborhood, hannah shouted “No man shall take me to my grave.” while they were carrying her casket to the already dug hole, the men holding it slipped and fell. the creepy part? hannahs coffin slid all the way to the grave, landing perfectly in it.
now im not sure if this is true…but also around monroe its said that many mysterious happenings seem to circulate around her ORIGINAL tomb stone. *it has never been replaced, although is still in very good condition. witchery???* anyway, again…these are just storys. im not sure how true they are, but theres alwasy a possibilty so……just dont do it okay? its rude. Ive heard that a younger boy (10-15) decided to be funny one day so he went up to Gregorys Cemetary and took a pee on hannahs grave. OOPS!!!!! in mid piddle a tree fell on him and broke his back.
okay thats it lol…i just took particular intrest in this story, living in the town in which it took place. thank you

By: hannah cranna

hannah cranna — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:33:40 +0000

I know that many times, over many years the tombstone was ran over so it was replaced MANY times. so she is still alive in spirit but not not mortal.

By: Loretta

Loretta — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:16:30 +0000

Hannah Cranna’s tombstone was placed in the mid-20th century by a local historian who wrote about her life.
She may not even have had an engraved tombstone to start, being poor and with no family survivors to care, though I think the plain flat rock footstone is original. There are several similar uninscribed, uncut plain stones in the cemetery which may mark the graves of Indians or slaves— indeed this little burying ground is almost like a potter’s field. And where is Captain Hovey buried? Perhaps under one of the fieldstone markers? P.S., the historian who wrote the bio and obtained the tombstone said there was some question as to whether Joseph Hovey was Hannah’s husband or father (maybe there was a big age difference between the couple?) There are still Hoveys who live in the area.