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18-year-old Frankie Silver was hanged in Morganton, North Carolina in 1833, convicted of killing then dismembering her 19-year-old husband in a fit of jealous rage. Her mother and brother were also arrested but both were soon released.\u00a0 Her family broke her out of jail, disguised her as a man, and hid her in a wagonload of hay.\u00a0 The sheriff\u2019s posse quickly recaptured her.\u00a0 On her way to the gallows, she tried to make a statement but stopped when her father shouted out, \u201cDie with it in you, Frankie!\u201d\u00a0 This episode made her motive and even her guilt seem ambiguous.\u00a0 Ongoing controversy about her fate has made her an object of myth and folklore, inspiring a ballad and more recently a novel by Sharyn McCrumb.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.11.1″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_audio audio=”https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Frankie-Silver60Mx.mp3″ title=”Frankie Silver” _builder_version=”3.11.1″][\/et_pb_audio][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 18-year-old Frankie Silver was hanged in Morganton, North Carolina in 1833, convicted of killing then dismembering her 19-year-old husband in a fit of jealous rage. Her mother and brother were also arrested but both were soon released.\u00a0 Her family broke her out of jail, disguised her as a man, and hid her in a wagonload […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" 18-year-old Frankie Silver was hanged in Morganton, North Carolina in 1833, convicted of killing then dismembering her 19-year-old husband in a fit of jealous rage. Her mother and brother were also arrested but both were soon released.\u00a0 Her family broke her out of jail, disguised her as a man, and hid her in a wagonload of hay.\u00a0 The sheriff\u2019s posse quickly recaptured her.\u00a0 On her way to the gallows, she tried to make a statement but stopped when her father shouted out, \u201cDie with it in you, Frankie!\u201d\u00a0 This episode made her motive and even her guilt seem ambiguous.\u00a0 Ongoing controversy about her fate has made her an object of myth and folklore, inspiring a ballad and more recently a novel by Sharyn McCrumb.<\/span><\/p> [audio:http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Frankie-Silver60Mx.mp3|titles=Frankie Silver60Mx]<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[104,111,156,228,270,378],"class_list":["post-3990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-people","tag-burke-county","tag-capital-punishment","tag-crime","tag-frankie-silver","tag-hanging","tag-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3990"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8283,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions\/8283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Audio Moment<\/h1>\n
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