Mercy Lena Brown Vampire

What's her name? How old is she? I always knew she was different. That's what the people said as they viewed her corpse. It draws a crowd to hear that there is a vampire amongst the living; the story of Mercy Lena Brown "America's Last Vampire. March 1892 townspeople gathered to view the exhumed body of Mercy Brown (Wertz).
George and Mary Brown, the parents of Mercy Brown and her six siblings, you've only heard of Mercy and Edwin because all the others died before Mercy was even ten years old they died from the Consumption. Mercy's mother being first and her sisters soon following after. Mercy, Edwin and their father, George were the only ones left by the 1890s; Mercy died just two years later (Wertz).
Exeter, Rhode Island,

where Tuberculous ran rapidly through the town. Killing families by the dozen (Klein). Consumption was the contemporary term for tuberculosis, a fatal mycobacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs. There was, nothing remotely Romantic or psychosomatic about the disease. The most common form of human tuberculosis usually begins with flu-like symptoms which progress to a persistent cough, the spitting of blood caused by a lesion of the lung tissue, and consequent weight-loss or general wasting of the muscles. The disease begins to consume the organ in which it has lodged, usually, the lung and the illness progresses to a fatal conclusion (Brownell).
The Browns weren't the only ones that suffered from tuberculosis the Bronte, Trollope, and the Oliphants all died in a 30-year time period (1833 - 1865) from the consumption.
Tuberculosis plagued Rhode Island killing 100s; Mercy was an unlucky victim.
Some wonder how it is spread, tuberculosis is usually spread by the coughing of the infected person, and inhaled by those in prolonged close contact; this means that the disease often spreads within families: hence its description as 'the family attendant'( “A Vampire Named Mercy Brown: The New England Vampire Panic of the 19th Century.”).
Mercy Brown's entire family were victims, some dying faster than others, leaving Mercy to die at just 19.
Mercy's burial process took time because her death was in the cold Winter; she was unable to be buried in the ground because it was frozen and damp, so she was kept inside a crypt.
What's a crypt?

It's an above-ground tomb.
After her death, her younger brother, Edwin was still alive in need of a cure. George Brown the father of Mercy Brown had given permission to exhume the bodies of his dead family members (Digati). Upon arriving at Mercy' casket they discovered Mercy's hair and nails had grown and there was still liquid blood in her veins (MacGowan); the townspeople had come to a conclusion that she was a vampire.
The definition of a vampire is a corpse that leaves its grave at night to drink the blood of the living by biting their necks with long pointed canine teeth. In the 1800s the definition of a vampire was a whole different case, a vampire was a corpse to basically prey on its family members and instead of drinking blood they took the souls (Urban Dictionary).
Mercy Brown "The last American Vampire " was to have supposedly done this to the members of her family that died of tuberculosis. Chestnut Hill Cemetery this said to be where mercy's body finally lays to rest with the rest of her family laying around her

(McGowan).
Sarah Tillinghast another name you've probably heard of, she was heard to be Rhode Island's very first vampire (Faire). Her story is kinda like Mercy’s; her family had also died from ,Consumption. One night in 1776 Sarah’s father woke from a horrifying dream. He told his wife, startled awake when he bolted upright, that he had dreamed half the trees in his orchard had died. He was certain the dream meant something, but damned if he could figure what. Comforted by his wife, he went back to sleep, still confused (Faire).
Not long after Stukeley dream, his oldest daughter, Sarah, fell dangerously ill with tuberculosis in its most virulent form, the so-called “galloping consumption.” Characterized by shortness of breath, fever, weight loss, violent cough, and in its late stages by hemorrhages of blood from the lungs, it could kill within weeks.

In broad daylight, Stukeley and a band of nearby farmers went to the cemetery where Sarah and her five siblings lay buried. They dug up each of the graves and inspected the bodies. Five showed normal signs of decay and were reverently reburied. Sarah’s did not. Her eyes were open, according to one account, fixed in a stare, and fresh blood was found in her heart and veins. Stukeley and the farmers knew what they must do. They cut out Sarah’s heart and burned it to ashes, then reburied her. Although the seventh child died after the desecration of Sarah’s grave, his wife recovered and no others of his children fell ill (Faire)

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Both of these stories are amazing telling the tale of Rhode Island’s vampires and it is also expressed and exzaggerated The amazing story of Mercy Brown. . Death of the consumption took over Rhode Island and revealed “America’s Last Vampire”.