The Grave of Temperance Butler

Mademoiselle Chasseur's Cryptid Guidebook - Temperance Butler
What is it with Americans and witches? Pardon me for a little bit while I delve into a tiny bit of history. While Minnesota wouldn't become an American territory until the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the area that would become Shae's Landing was used as a trading post as early as the late 1680's! Mainly dealing with trapping and fur trading, the area was mainly populated by Native Americans, travelers looking to rest during their travels out West, and some who decided to stay. Of course, there were the Stentons and the Shaes, but that's a different story for a different time. Anyway, Temperance Butler and her family fell into the category of "family traveling out West forced to stay in Shae's Landing". Apparently, her father was convinced that his town in Massachusetts was too friendly to the godless Native Americans in the area and decided to form his own colony out West. His miniature form of Manifest Destiny died out about halfway through when his caravan ran out of resources and were forced to stop in Shae's Landing. They would stay there for a few months before her father noticed her getting friendly with the local indigenous population, it seems that Temperance wasn't following in her father's footsteps.

The Temperance patriarch, believing that the land was tainted and that Temperance was too far gone to take with them. The Temperance family would lock themselves in their cabin for nearly a week, packing up and leaving overnight. They took everything with them, only leaving behind Temperance's corpse. Whatever sort of exorcism the Temperance family attempted left their daughter dead