Two days before her death, she suffered from pneumonia and eventually left the city of Savannah heartbroken when she passed at age six. After her death, Gracie's father quit his job at the hotel and the family later moved back to New England, leaving Gracie all alone.

When she passed, her father had a monument carved at her grave site, a life-sized representation of Gracie, which continues to captivate visitors today.

Some say they have seen the ghost of "Little Gracie" in a pretty white dress playing around Johnson Square — where the family hotel used to stand — before vanishing into thin air.