Ahh look at this....Peggy Clevenger and her husband, Bill. Supposedly Bill, who died in 1872, told Peggy that if he found conditions of the next world as they had been described to him, strange things would soon happen close to home. Bill assured Peggy that if his new stomping grounds were as hot as he had been led to believe, he would cause the water of an open well near their house to boil day and night. The legend recounts that on the night after Bill passed on, the water in the well began to bubble and steam, just as he had foretold. According to one poster, on a message board, "The well no longer exists. Its walls long ago caved in and the place where it once was has been forgotten. One old resident of Pasadena was careful to emphasize the fact that the story was not all fable. Henry Webb swore to us that he saw the well. Henry said it continued to boil, now and then, until its walls crumbled. Peggy is well remembered, too. Despite the fact that she lived back in the pines, far beyond the Plains, she was a fairly wealthy woman. Her mistake was in an unholy joy with which she showed all who plunged through to the little hamlet a stocking filled with gold which soon became the envy of the whole community. .......
The boiling well story is new to me...but look at this
"the owners of the Halfway House hotel and tavern that was a stagecoach stop between
Mount Holly and Tuckerton in the 1800's.
Legends say the owner was Peggy Clevenger, wife of Bill Clevenger.
We have been informed by another researcher that her actual, or maiden
name was Deborah Platt, daughter of Samuel Platt and Elizabeth
Horner............'
hmmmm.....
