Land of Legendary Lore by Prentiss Ingraham published in 1898 mentions a "striking feature" about Trappe on p. 163: a grave in the middle of a street, the head and foot stones parallel with the sidewalk "though dating far back, but I could not learn how it was that this grave came there in the public thoroughfare." It remained in the street well into the 20th century when it was finally moved to one side when the street is being paved. The grave stone is of Elizabeth Lee who died in 1827 and it survives, still in good condition, at the northeast corner of the Methodist Church lot.