The Ferris Mansion

Wyoming · USA · Manor

Two men are said to have been killed building this house. Cecil Ferris, the youngest of the family, was killed by a gun accident in the late 1800s.

At least two men are said to have died in construction accidents while this house at Rawlins, Wyoming was being built.

In the late 1800s the youngest son of the family, Cecil Ferris, was killed at home when a gun went off while it was being handled by one of his older brothers.

It was an accident, and it happened to a family who had already lost the father in a runaway carriage. His widow built this house afterwards and raised the children in it.

What is reported since is mild and domestic rather than frightening, which is how the accounts consistently describe it.

A loaded firearm in a nineteenth century household was ordinary, and children being killed by them was ordinary too, which is a sentence worth sitting with.

The house is a Queen Anne mansion, restored, and has operated as a bed and breakfast.

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