Faithful till the End

Beauregard Frees

1836-1899

Beauregard Frees was born in 1836 to a hard working family in Mobile, Alabama. As a child, Beauregard was considered an outsider towards his classmates for his love of all things strange and macabre. He would spend most of his time reading ghost stories from Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving and Mary Shelly. As he entered adulthood, he became a professional actor on the stage, playing the parts of Richard the III and Caliban from the Tempest. 

Frees retired from the acting business and moved to New Orleans, where he became the majordomo at the Gracey’s Winter Home which later became Gracey Manor. Despite his awkward appearances, Beauregard had a heart of gold inside of him. He was a loyal servant to Master William Gracey and secret lover to Leota.     

One fateful night in 1897, Beauregard heard  a disturbance in the house. Armed with a hatchet to frighten the intruder, only to come face to face with an entity in the halls of the mansion. In defense, Frees used the hatchet and swung at the spirits, slashing through them like smoke. Only to disfigure his left eye. In the final days of his life after suffering a nervous breakdown, he went mad with fright and paranoia. Frees, seeing no other way out but his own, hung himself right then and there in the highest point of the house. 

His suiside note reads, This was an evil house since its creation. It attracts many souls and has trapped them as prisoners. I am trapped, I cannot leave, It has a mind of its own. There is no escape for me, there always…. My way.