Room Number Eight
Visit St. Paul's Cemetery in Old Town Alexandria, you will see a tombstone carved in 1816, holding the remains of a woman. Some said she was very beautiful, some said her face couldn't be seen for the black veil covering it. In any case, the identities of the two strangers who entered Alexandria by boat are unknown. It seems the strangers wanted it that way. When the small boat carrying a man and a woman arrived on the Alexandria, Virginia shore, the woman was very ill. She and the man went to Gadsby's Tavern, where she died in room 8. The man paid for the inscription, and then left without settling his debt.
Speculation says the woman could be the daughter of Aaron Burr, Theodosia, but she was shipwrecked three years earlier.
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