"The second variation of the event appeared in "True Irish Ghost Stories" (published in 1926) by St. John Drelincourt Seymour, a relative of Meredith's wife, under the chapter 'Legendary and Ancestral ghosts'.,
"In the Parish Church of Ardtrea, near Cookstown, is a marble monument and inscription in memory of Thomas Meredith, D.D., who had been a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and for six years rector of the parish.He died, according to the words of the inscription, on 2nd May 1819, as a result of "a sudden and awful visitation."