The House That Didn't Exist and the Tuesdays Beverly Kept

The House That Didn't Exist and the Tuesdays Beverly Kept

A piece of land officially absent in county records sheltered a house and a network of names for more than a century, and a single index card reading "BEVERLY MEYER, TUESDAYS" was found tucked into its doorframe in February 2014; what was being protected on that parcel, and why did Beverly keep a stack of anonymous first-name cards tied mostly to Tuesdays?

In this episode, we trace the records and people tied to an unmapped parcel on the western edge of Dellard, Wisconsin, a stack of index cards listing first names and weekdays, and a coroner's report from 1911 that Beverly Meyer carried for decades; how do these scattered documents fit together to reveal what the land and the house concealed?

Person: Beverly Meyer Date: February 2014 Location: Dellard, Waukesha County, Wisconsin Event: Discovery of index card and cadastral anomaly Document: Coroner's report dated March 1911

- A surveyor named Kevin Stroud found a parcel with no cadastral number while remapping boundaries in February 2014. - A handwritten index card reading "BEVERLY MEYER, TUESDAYS" was photographed by church volunteer Connie Ford and filed as MISCELLANEOUS - UNRESOLVED. - Local historian Lloyd Fitzgerald published a report in spring 2016 that received seventeen downloads in its first year. - Church registry records list Beverly Meyer as the emergency contact for forty-three women between 1976 and 2003. - A photocopied Waukesha County coroner's report from March 1911 names Anna Brauer, age thirty-four, cause of death "SELF-INFLICTION" with a note "DOMESTIC DIFFICULTIES OF LONG STANDING."

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