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Abigail Pateclever 

1855-1890

Abigail was born in Baltimore MD in 1855 to the Pateclever family. As a child, she lived a sheltered life and was tortured to be a proper lady. As she bloomed into a young woman of 20, she met the acquaintance of Geroge Gracey and he literally swept her off her feet. She bore George their own son and heir, William, who would later be called Master Gracey. 

Even though the couple lived a happy life, George was always away from his business trips. While Abigail had to raise William. After George came back from his travels, the couple would then quarrel with one another. When William had attended college, it was here that Abigail discovered that her husband was having an affair with the maid. In a fit of blind rage, she disposed of both George and his lover with an axe.    

At the trial, Abigail's counsel pleaded for mercy on the grounds that she was now a widow. Witnesses testified that the murder was justified because George had been “a very dull man who was busy with his travels away from home.” Abigail was acquitted for “lack of evidence,” and emerged smelling like a rose. The jury dismissed it a merely a crime of passion. Afterwards she left the entire family fortune and estates to her son William.

In 1890, Abigail paid her respects to George’s grave. However she mocked him, finally free of him. Constance had planned to sell off the house and use the family fortune to start a new life in France. She perched on her husband’s grave, unfortunately her victory was short lived. She lost her balance and off her husband's grave backwards. She instantly died of a broken neck.