This is one of the most recognizable houses in Surrency, visible to passersby on U.S. Highway 341. Sherry Kesling notes that this was the home of Ellen Surrency. She was a member of the founding family of the town who taught school and never married.
Sounds like wrong house and name. Eileen Surrency taught school and never married% she lived in brick house on 341
Whose house was this, in that case?
Hi Brian, I checked with my mother again…now 92 years old. I took her through Google Maps (we walked the streets of Surrency, GA) and she said Wallace Tillman is correct. She now remembers that Ellen Surrency lived in the brick home at the corner of Highway 341 and Main St in Surrency. My mother also said that Beauty Tillman lived in the house across the street from where Ellen Surrency lived on 341 and Main St. The house she said Ellen lived in earlier was a boarding house. Now, she says she remembers that her brother Paul Youmans rented a room there…probably sometime in the 1940s. The boarding house may have been someone’s home at one time but my mother says she only remembers it being a boarding house. I took a screenshot of the house she thought Ellen lived in but I can’t upload it to this site.
Thanks. I will update as soon as possible!
Is this the house that was supposed to be haunted or was it an older one. I have been to this one.
Eddie, the one that was supposedly the most haunted burned down, I’m told. But someone in the neighborhood suggested this one might be haunted, too. (I only tried to share houses which people reported to be haunted for Halloween, as this is not something I give too much credence to. Just for fun).
Hi, Brian. I wanted to reach out to you to see if you had any information on the location of the former Surrency home (I know it no longer exists, but just the general area). I am researching ghost lights around Georgia and stumbled across the Surrency one not too long ago. I thought that perhaps the site of the home was a decent place to start my search. I can’t seem to find any specific mentions of where to go to see the ghost light in Surrency, as most just say it is seen along the tracks without giving any additional details. I know this post is pretty old by this point, but I wanted to reach out to those with more knowledge of the area and the local lore.
Robert Dixons home til he passed now his sister owns it yes its haunted to my grwat aunt lived there when I was a child
Brian,
My mother says the Clapboard house….once belonged to Ellen Surrency a descendant of the original Surrency family. She was a school teacher all of her days and never married.
Sherry Kesling
Thanks for this background history, Sherry, and thanks to your mother, as well. I’ll add this to the posts.