Montgomery County NcArchives News.....Mrs. Joseph Wilson 1830
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Carolina Observer, (Fayetteville, NC) Thursday, June 03, 1830 1830
Carolina Observer, (Fayetteville, NC) Thursday, June 03, 1830
 
MELANCHOLY
 
We learn, that Joseph Wilson, who lived on Clark's Creek, Montgomery County, 
while under the influence of mental derangement, hung his wife to a sapling, 
in the woods, near his house. When found by the neighbors, she was entirely 
dead. Wilson made off with himself; at last advices had not been taken. Mrs. 
Wilson was about 50 years old, and has left a number of children. We learn 
that she had left her husband several times, during his crazy fits; but in 
this fatal instance, it would seem that he was more self possessed than usual 
on such occasions; it is thought that he must have decoyed his wife into the 
woods, and knocked her down before hanging her up to the tree. Western 
Carolinian.

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