Do travelers visit Queen Cleo's grave?

Radio host to stake out cemetery to prove myth

By JESSICA CUFFMAN • The Marion Star • March 20, 2010

MARION - A local radio host will stake out a local cemetery to determine whether legends surrounding a part of Marion history are true.

Scott Spears, WMRN 1490 personality, has been interested in the story of the "Gypsy Queen" since hearing former WMRN host Madge Guthery talk about it at a Capture the Moment dinner a few years ago.

Now, on the 105th anniversary of the death of the queen, he plans to stake out St. Mary's Cemetery to see if the legends that gypsies still visit her grave are true.

The Gypsy Queen was a woman named Ann Judge, called Queen Cleo by her people, who she was traveling with through Marion in 1905 when she died in childbirth, Spears said.

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