Elizabeth Harrison, a recognized leader within a nineteenth-century Romani traveling community, died in 1895 and was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery after a funeral that drew widespread public attention. Her family monument remains in Section 23; historical sources often use the period title "Queen of the Gypsies," but OddWay should describe the site with the more respectful Romani terminology.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: Roadside America