Elizabeth Hatley was an upper-class woman who lived during the mid to late 1800's.  During the Civil War, her husband left her to fight for the Union.  He was killed on April 7, 1862 at the Battle of Shiloh.  After learning of her husband's death, Elizabeth became delirious.  In the winter of 1862-63, Mrs. Hatley told her servant to wound each one of her five children by stabbing them in the stomach.  One of the children died instantly.  Mrs. Hatley then told the servant to lock the four surviving children in the downstairs closet of her three-story house.  With the children in the closet, suffering from fatal stab wounds, Mrs. Hatley moved her favorite rocking chair right outside of the closet and listened to the cries of her dying children.  Within a few days, all of the children were dead.  According to legend, Mrs. Hatley laughed hysterically during the entire incident.  It is said that anyone who enters the closet and repeats three times, "The maid is not dead but sleepeth," will awaken the spirit of Elizabeth Hatley.