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,

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

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)