For the record, here's the listing in the Traditional Ballad Index:

Haunted Wood

DESCRIPTION: A white man builds a home near "Haunted Falls." One day when he is away, Indians cast his wife to die on the rocks and burn his home with his children inside. "Now the old man wanders lonely... And the people... Call this place Haunted Wood."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1946 (collected from Buck Lee; printed in JAF 1954)
KEYWORDS: death murder Indians(Am.) revenge family
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Fife-Cowboy/West 41, "Haunted Wood" (1 text, 1 tune)
Burt, pp. 144-146, "(Haunted Wood)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5503
RECORDINGS:
Eva Ashley Moore, "The Haunted Woods" (on Ashley02)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Petit Rocher" (plot)
Notes: I know of no evidence that this particular event ever took place. It's just one of those atrocity stories white men pinned on Indians. Burt suggests that it's connected with the 1862 Sioux Uprising (now officially designated the Dakota Conflict by Minnesota government agencies) -- but it *really* doesn't sound like a Minnesota story to me, and I live in Minnesota. - RBW
File: FCW041

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