If his wife was alive when he left, why didn't he take her to celebrate the holiday with him? Usually married folks spend the holidays together. Maybe she couldn't travel for some? Seems weird. Hubby could have killed her, left and came back and blamed the slaves? Maybe I've watched too many crime shows.
They were playing kickball with slave babies until they were decapitated, they used slave babies as live bait for catching alligators, they whipped pregnant women and SA them in front of their slave husbands……but you ask the silly question if you thinking the husband killing his own wife and blaming it on the slaves is reaching??? Clearly you don’t know the full scope of the atrocious history of this country LOL!
I live about an hour from this place and it is very sad , but for the most part , they did try to preserve sacred things ... there's a town in our state that built everything around the burial mounds and it's a very interesting place called Moundsville ...
Agree that indigenous ppl were ppl here 20,000 years ago. Do you believe that the ppl of the Clovis culture became who we sometimes refer to as American Indians? Was Clovis first? Did Clovis die off or move on & then who we refer to as American Indians make their way to North America? I’m not asking to be a smart ass. These are really interesting questions to me & I don’t know the answer. Sometimes I wonder if the first inhabitants of North America died off after a cataclysmic event like a possible Younger Dryas meteor strike or a super volcanic eruption. The American Indians & any cultures that were here before them or became them obviously took great care of the land. We don’t trip over their garbage nor worry that we’ll unknowingly get exposed to their nuclear waste. I admire that immensely.
Afterall, during that era, who are people apt to believe, an enslaved supposed "non-person" with no rights or a white man? Just sayin.' And I grant you no investigation was done-- no investigation which contradicted the claims of the white husband.
My son works as a signalman on the N&S in Welch West Virginia and a lil cat jumped up in the back of his truck and my boy just kept him and his daughter named him Banjo, ole Banjo is 100% a Hunter, comes gets his breakfast and dinner and back on patrol. Best ole cat I’ve ever seen, the mice and rats he’s left at their door would fill a coal car. Love Your channel! Like spending time with a ole friend!
@@sherbearb.1593 he ain’t a petting cat though, he’s all business gets his breakfast or dinner and off to work, he is a pretty cat black with white face, belly and paws,
@@edwinthompson6510 that’s a killing machine!!! Not sure how’d Banjo would do with h a Rattlesnake, thank God must of them live in the really wooded areas of West Virginia, we get more Copperheads, bad thing about them no warning.
….my husband was born in Kentucky…they say he was a hill billy ….he was the smartest, most intelligent man I have ever met….kind, considered….hardworking……I am German and over many years of traveling with him I got to love Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee….I love the people….love the stories….love their way of life…..it is so sad, that so many of the young people do not value where they came from…….
Do you still value the caucus mountains? Cause that's where you really come from! If you don't know where you come from, You don't know where your going!
Slavery actually had the effect of greatly benefiting the descendants of the slaves. Very bright silver lining. What, you think they'd rather be in Africa? Lol!
@@alibalbee2883 Think, as opposed to allowing your emotions and personal biases determine your outlook. Be objective. Yes, the long dead practice of importing slaves from Africa to North America was an enormous benefit to each and every single black person currently residing in the single greatest, most successful, most influential, most wealthy, most powerful, most free nation that has ever existed in the entire history of the human species. If you really don't believe that to be true, perhaps you should emigrate to Africa? No? No, you would not like it there at all.
My great great grandfather had loaned a man a saddle that lived near them and the man hadn't returned the saddle so my gg-grandfather and his friend went to go get the saddle from the man. When they arrived at his house the man asked if they wanted to play cards and they went inside and started drinking moonshine and playing cards. The man that had borrowed the saddle was losing and he told my gg-grandfather and his friend he had to use the outhouse. The man walked outside and got a mauling axe and came back in. My gg-grandfather and his friend were sitting at the table with their backs to the door and the man walked up behind them and struck his friend in the head with the sharp end of the axe and my gg-grandfather turned and was struck with the blunt end right in the forehead. The man drug their bodies outside to the woodpile and went back in and past out drunk. My gg-grandfather came to and crawled on his belly into town where they managed to save him. Awhile later the man was out on bail and got gunned down on the side of the street. He was buried but the body was dug up and his bones were turned into windchimes that hung in a tree at the edge of the property as a warning. My gg-grandfathers skull was caved in and he wore a hat low to his browline to cover it the rest of his life.
What a story that was. So sorry this happened to your gg grandfather Did your Gg grandfather get his saddle back? That is sad about his friend. That is something you need to write down and share to pass on down to your family members. Also do you know what year it was that this happened to your great-great-grandfather?
@@tmcgee1614 We pass down family stories down here. There is usually a keeper of the history in each generation and the information is given to all who want it. We are busy trying to preserve history-not rewrite it.
It just seems so disrespectful on so many levels and so many different ways.......the building on graveyards and such. It's funny though how the husband was the only one who heard her last words....so we just have to take his word for it. It's just odd that only one slave was hanged but the other was simply sold. An unheard type of ending, especially for that given time in America.
I first visited Logan a few years ago. My mom and uncle were born there. My maternal great grandparents settled there after coming from Italy. It was fun listening to mom and uncle reliving some of their cherished memories. Like any rail town, mom had the obligatory "foot stuck in the rails with a train approaching" story. Drove down to Omar (had to edit, named the wrong town), where my Nana was born. Hard to imagine my Italian kin raising their large family there during the depression. I left part of my heart there for them ❤️
@@jamestabor7725 my mom told me they ran a restaurant there called The Wooden Shoe. During the depression, they would give food away. My Nana was number 4 of 13 children, only 11 survived. They all lived into their 80s and 90s, even my Nonna was 91 (great grandma) when she passed. I do know my gr grandfather worked in a coal mine until my Nana begged him not to. And he quit, just like that. My mom's dad worked for the Logan Banner. His grandfather came from NYC to be editor there. Then my grandparents came to Dayton Ohio since he was offered a great job at one of the newspapers here. He retired in 1972. His family was Schuster. My Italian side was Trapasso. The Italian ones ended up moving up to White Plains, NY.
Edit: ive got better stories Im from Logan. Heres a ghost story. My brother and i would go run around the mountains and just do what we wanted as we had no parents only a great grandmother who was too old and too poor to take care of us, we were 6 and 7 yrs old. So we run the mountains looking for turtles and pawpaws everyday to eat. One day we stumble upon a hole in the side of the mtn im guessing its a coal shoot or an air passageway to mines in the mountain. My brother decides to crawl in and gets stuck with his legs barely hanging out the hole. Hes screaming and i cant pull him out and hes squirming only going further into the hole. So i run down the mtn to try to find help and gather town folks to come up to save him. This is around 1987 or so. When we get back up the mountain to the hole my brother is sitting next to the hole on the ground just spaced out. One of the adults i think his last name was Dempsey asked my brother how he got out the hole. He said an Indian man pulled him out.
I thought the same thing. I've seen a lot of fencing at cemeteries like this and never thought about the history of how it was made. Sometimes it's hard to redirect our minds to the past and how things were done back then.
West…..by god Virginia. My family was all over West Virginia. I live in Ohio. Have for years but I graduated from Harman High School. My family came from Scotland…..actually Ireland as well. Ulster Scots. My 6x great grandfather was an amazing American who fought the British in the revolution. He was a fairly well known frontiersman out of fort wheeling. His name was Moses Williamson. Very proud of him and two sons who fought in the Revolution. Family had homesteads in Sistersville and Friendly West Virginia. He even knew and spent time with the famous frontiersman Lew Wetzel. His father came here in 1744 from Scotland. Samuel Williamson. My son is an eighth generation American. We are going to Fife next year to see our grandfathers grave in Scotland.
@@thehillbillyfiles If you are not on private property you can film whatever you want, even film private property. Do not believe me but if you truly want to know find out for yourself. Most people do not know their rights and the ruling elites do not want you to know. Easier for them to violate your rights and enslave. If you do not think that is and has been going on I would say you better wake up. Interesting video, Thanks !
Born & Raised in WV, and I know A LOT about the culture and history here but I still often find myself learning something new even after all these years. We as humans truly never stop learning for those willing to seek knowledge 💯 📚 🤓 Very interesting case & documentary! 💯 Looking forward to more videos of similar content! 🍿 👀 We appreciate the work put into what you do 👊 🖤
He probably killed her himself & blamed it on the slaves. That’s why he allegedly went to some Bs Christmas party instead of being at home with her instead. That Christmas party was the alibi. Back then u could blame ANYTHING on the slaves & they’d be killed or punished
OK this is what really happened: Mr. Lawson gets the two slaves all sauced up and drunk until they pass out. He goes into the house and kills his wife with the poker iron. He gets cleaned, dressed in his best clothes and goes to the Christmas party - so he has an alibi. He comes back to the crime scene and Mrs. Lawson conveniently tells him, just before she dies, that it was their two slaves. Right. So one gets lynched and he pockets the money from the sale of the other. Mr. Lawson is now a freeman, and he’s probably going to hook up with whomever he met at the Christmas party. The end.
I live in West Virginia, northern panhandle. My dad was born in Logan which he said it was super small and seeing it he was right. He use to tell us about the ghosts down there and the tunnels. Thank you for all that you do for all of us. Stay safe in your travels.
I grew up right on the Lincoln county and Boone County border. Logan wasn’t far from me and I’ve heard many stories but I’ve never heard this. I knew about the tunnels and whatnot though.
Was there ever any question of the slaves possibly having been framed? It just seems odd that they would commit such a crime as it would mean certain & horrible deaths to them both. Not only that, but even if they succeeded, they wouldn’t be able to profit from anything as nobody would accept slaves having money, regardless of how they may have acquired it. I could be totally wrong but this is based on my public school education & my obsession with crime solving lol. I am just fascinated by this story. It just seems really odd. Thank you for sharing, I enjoyed your charisma & the way you told this story. I love how you included the dog in a close up too lol.
On December 27, 1847, shortly after her husband‘s death, Ann was mending a shirt for one of the slaves so that he and another slave could go to town for supplies. Thinking that they could be free after Anthony’s death, the slave she was mending the shirt for, struck her on the head with an iron poker and she died. The slaves knew that money was kept in one of the drawers in the bureau. The poker was again used to pry open the drawer and take the money. Two of the slaves, Bill and Hardin, were accused. The one that killed her was hanged, probably on the courthouse lawn. The other slave was severely punished.
I did not know that Logan County was formerly Virginia, not WV. The family settled on the present site of the Logan County Courthouse. Anthony was one of Logan County‘s earliest merchants at Guyandotte, VA (now WV). The Logan family donated the land for the Logan County Courthouse with the stipulation that if the courthouse was moved the land would revert to the heirs of the estate.
This is the first video of yours that I've seen. EXCELLENT! So happy I found your channel! I especially liked that you pointed out the fence around the gravestone was so old it would have been made by a blacksmith. I've never left the Pacific Northwest and get so caught up in seeing the rest of the country through video such as yours that I don't think of details such as the fence would have been made by a blacksmith and taken a bit of time to make. Thanks for those kinds of details, they're much appreciated!
@@luannm-crazycatlady6621 🙋♀️ mine too I think it popped up in my feed because I watch a lot of mysterious WV that’s a good channel too Yeah I’ll be looking for these videos lol. I like this guy the way he does the videos
My family and I were just stranded there for a day, and overnight. On our way home from Man my truck broke down, and dropped it off at that Dodge Ram dealer repair shop. I am surprised I didn’t see the stray dogs in that lot by the tracks. We unloaded our Rmax sxs there and drove up to that City cemetery. I would not have looked for an old cemetery to explore if it wasn’t for your you tube channel. I walked up the hill farther also. It is really old and overgrown up there. Now days because of you guys I am going to be drawn to old mountain graveyards. Thanks for the great work.
The cemetery where Anthony Lawson is buried (died 1849) is not a civil war cemetery. It is the oldest cemetery in Cabell county with graves going back to the early nineteenth century.
Oh my gosh, my Dad n his side of the family was/ is from there!!! How exciting to see this!!! Thank you so much for this video!!! Thank you. It's so wonderful to see it again, it's been years since I've been there. Since my Granny passed away . I love Logan n I miss going there to visit. ❤️💖💗❤️💖💗❤️💖💗
I just now ran across this channel and I'm so thrilled that you actually filmed n talked about a true story in Logan !! How awesome. You made my day !!!! 💗💖❤️❤️💖💗. I'm a subscriber forever !!!
I just found your channel and I loved all the information you had. What a sad tragic story, thank you so much for this video, I love cemeteries, and the stories they hold. I signed up to your channel, I’m so happy I found you ❤️
My good friend is a historian of Josephine County Grant's pass Oregon. She researched past incidents out of the Archives in the historical society, Recopying newspaper headlines as they apperd in the papers. After purchasing her book. of Murder,Mayhem and Mystery of Josephine County by Jean Boland you can't help to think that every little town and city was as peaceful as they tried to portray in the history books. You literally rolled the dice of life everday.
Which part do you find sad and tragic? The slavery of two children for their whole lives or the fact that they killed one of their enslavers? Just curious.
@@SagebrushRambles I think both the slavery was sad and tragic, and also that these young people were forced into murder. Slavery was a horrible thing 😢
@@carolynkatsilas8559 we’ve got minimum wage employment today…it enriches some sections of society at the expense of others. More or less the same thing..as yet theres no blame attached to it, by society as a whole. One day minimum wage jobs will be outed..
It's no good building on Indian burial grounds, or digging the ground up. Nothing good comes from that. But it was nice of the city hall to give you permission to film. Fascinating story! I live in a cursed city too. One can tell it's cursed. I hope I get chance to leave one day. If this town lets me... there's a curse here that anyone who leaves, always comes back. I've seen this happening again and again! No one will tell me the truth about all this though, folks just mock me by telling me scary stories and then laugh if I believe it. So now I don't believe anything. Odd folks! Very odd!
Thank you for your gift as a SCRIBE to bring these stories to life no matter how it makes people feel. Humans are truly an amazing species in our ability to think and create from the good, the bad, and the ugly
Nice comment, @ Devyne Revelation 13:10 comes to mind for me because it brings out he that leaded into slavery must go into slavery and how other things must happen because of it. Your thoughts?
A sad story. Thanks for posting it. You should know that you do not need anyone's permission to video record public buildings and the police should know that, but its nice that you asked.
I just found your channel and subscribed! West Virginia is absolutely gorgeous in the fall. I am from the western US and have only traveled through (and over) WV briefly on my way to Ohio. But I’ll never forget all the gorgeous autumn colors all over the mountains in WV.
I love quaint little Appalachian towns. Most people want to go to the beach or whatever. I like to get away from the masses and spend holidays and vacations hobnobbing with regular folks in "out of the way" country towns I've never seen. Thanks for the history lesson. This makes me want to go there and have lunch and look around. I think it is pretty close to Hatfield and McCoy territory too, and would probably be a great area to spend a week or more. 👍
I was born in Logan, I never want to return there, my father work as a coal miner for the Ethel Chilton mine company for pennies, we lived in a coal company house, shopping at the Coal company store, with coal company money while the rich owners lived in luxury. Never want to return.
What would these slaves do with the money? Like where would they go spend it?It seems really like a lame story, why hang one slave but sell the other one? I have some doubts on this story as being factual from the husband.
I loved your video. All of it. It was very interesting. I live in Ireland and I love stuff like this. You have a great sense of humour. The bit I loved most was the dog jumping on to the truck 😂😂😂 I had to watch your video 3 times coz my side were aching from laughter because that dog got his 15 minutes of fame 🇮🇪💚
They logged over the top of a large one close to me knowing it was there in Upstate SC. I live on part of the village,and now they're about to build a subdivision on the site of the cemetery. It's got everybody pissed!
They do this knowing these cites are there. It’s been done throughout history every state. All purposefully done to ultimately wipe clean any ancestral belongings, burials , sacredness of people that first lived on what is America today. No accident.! Many people slaughtered and wrongfully so , only to be exploited years later with companies taking tribe names or logos and nice neighborhoods naming their streets after tribes as well. No real honor or compassion for the ancestors or sacred lands whatsoever after all the years. The golf course nearest you, or your own home is probably on sacred grounds long forgotten or purposely so by those that built it.!?
Sidestep Adventures has shown many slave cemeteries where their descendents were also buried, that have been planted over by lumber farms. Often there'll be grave markers shoved up in piles, by the big equipment removing stumps readying the property for a following planting. They claim the black cemeteries aren't well marked, but that is a damn lame excuse since we have GPS.
There was a famous socialite murdered in Logan County. I believe her last name was Thurmond. Her murderer has not been found today. You might think about doing a video on this lady.
Oh I would be so interested in that lady Mamie the socialite. Love your narration and bit of accent. Would have loved to move to WV but I'm a NYer so might not have been accepted. I am in poor health now anyway and am older. Just always loved mountains and nature.NY has some beautiful mountains and such but WV lovely too. Have a great day!
There are a bunch of stories out there that include an Indian burial grounds and curses. Tunnels too, that's always creepy. No doubt about the story though, written in stone. I love WV. I used to go to a town every now and then near South Forks. Beautiful country.
Wonderful, yet sad story. Thank u for the video and information and goin to the actual sites, showing. You bring so much history to everyone. All stories I've watched so far very interesting, and I always have loved the civil war era.
Very interesting story. Different times for sure. Lots of history in these little towns. I live in a city very rich with great history as well. Wheeling, WV
Great video Leo, thank you very much. You do know how to tell a good story. I know the question has already been asked, but why was only one slave hung, and the other sold? Perhaps one day you can show us the grave of the Indian Princess. Thank you again Leo, have a great day.
Only one slave did the actual killing, which is Bill , the other was involved and ok with it. So for some reason he got off . Thanks for supporting us!
@The Hillbilly Files - Legends and Locations You are more than welcome! Thank you very much for getting back to me. One last question if I may? When Bill was hung, was he probably 🤔 hung there on the property, and buried in an unmarked grave?
@The Hillbilly Files - Legends and Locations Thank you again for getting back to me, and for the information. It is very much appreciated. I am guessing that Bill might have been buried where other slaves at the time was buried, or perhaps he was buried way out in the woods 🪵 in the middle of nowhere. Have a great weekend.
It's always better to ask then to demand. A lot of people demand. Last night 3 people asked to take my picture I politely asked for tips because I'm a street performer. The people were cool and paid me.
And in small towns the police will just make you leave and you get no video. What are you going to do? Bring a mob back..sue? Its just better to avoid the BS. thanks for your comment
@@thehillbillyfiles Too many of the last couple of generations have been taught to thoughtlessly "demand their rights". You're wise enough to know that you not only have rights, but you also have the RIGHT to not demand those rights.
Rob? You can't rob someone who is stealing your body and labor. And unless they had special needs, they would have been long gone once they got what they needed to get away from that. Story is an example of what happens when folks lack empathy for all of the characters, doesn't make sense at all. Young, men with a divine right to their own lives would have been gone if they did what they did to get away. They would not have waited to get attacked.
My grandparents lived in Bluefield. Our ancestors were from Amonate and Jenkin Jones. These towns were close to the V/WV border. The family immigrated to the US in 1898. I want to hear more stories from this territory.
1:00 a m. And I'm binge watching your videos. My goodness they are interesting. I always knew that Logan was a coal town. Didn't know it has such interesting history. Thank you both.
Do you blame them? Nobody is standing in line to have lost identities, kidnapped children, beaten, starved, and raped. GOD only knows what else! For all we know, the husband could have killed her and blamed the slaves! Wouldn't be the first time!
Interesting that she lived just long enough to identity her killers...hmmm. Makes you wonder who Mr. Lawson was meeting under the mistletoe! 😮 Another incredibly interesting destination and story. I'm seriously hooked on your channel. I'd sure love to see what that town looked like pre-Civil War. Thank you once again for all of the details you bring us!❤
My husband’s a Lawson so I’m going to rewatch this and take notes for his genealogy. Family history claims ancestors go back to William “The Rebel” Lawson in Scotland. Interesting video! Come to think of it, we should go visit when he gets his vacation time.
Wonderful! Lawson sold the land that is now our home town of Williamson. Also his daughter married a Williamson and had the first white child in the county in Williamson WV. There's is a article about him I'll link you to, he did a lot in the area
Those slaves didn’t kill her. Her husband’s word is all they had to go on with no real evidence. This was done to the slaves ALL THE TIME, and they were innocent!
Sad story but I guess she shouldn't have been surprised when her slaves murdered her.if you treat people like animals eventually some of them will act like an animal. Why did they hang only one slave & sell the other one
Why do people tell this old tells. No one knows what it was like back in the slaves days. I’ve saw video’s where slaves said they were treated very well. I guess it just depended on who bought you.
My early years were in Logan or the hills up varneys branch , dirt poor son of a coal miner , dad died of black lung from the coal dust he inhaled over the years , we had our own mine we dug coal for heat and cook stove , didn't know about indoor plumbing till the first grade. 1956 till 63 when I went to live with relatives in Ohio. I've never been back , many I will visit before I pass , my grand parents are in the varney cemetery. Might check them out or that cemetery,
Grand ma was Golda mae Marcum married grandpa Jake marcum , saw grandma planted in 60 or 61 , I was young and not quite understanding all the fuss and flowers. Not sure about grandpa Jake, I was given away like a puppy in a box at wallmart . Live now Ontario Oregon. A high desert town. And just turned 69 this January. But would like to revisit those massive rocks I played on as a kid.
My late mom's best friend was Alberta Bell, from Logan WV. Sweetest soul ever on the earth! She had a cousin named Easter Bell. I'd say she was born in the 1920s.
I haven't been thru Logan in a long time. My family is from Delbarton and Ragland. Thanks for this video. It brought back some great memories! Definitely have a new subscriber 😊
First time on your channel. Really enjoyed your telling of the local history. Very interesting content. Liked and Subscribed👍 Greetings from Adelaide, Australia 🦘
Isn't is strange that the murdered woman and her husband have almost identical headstones & fencing around them both, yet in different towns...!?!?! I too was thinking about the tragic murder, yet she had slaves.....
Hmm. My great grandmother's maiden name was Lawsson. My 5 greats back grandfather was Gorin. The family settled in Kentucky. He moved to Erin,Tennessee. There he was a small farmer, miller, and J of the Peace. Died in 1830. He is buried in family plot on the homestead with his wife, and one daughter, and their 3 slaves, a man, woman, and child. Many southern small farmers considered their slaves family.
What an interesting story!! I am a native WVirginian born and raised in Dunbar, but now live close to Louisville, KY due to a teaching position. I am also a historian and absolutely love WVirginia's history particularly the Civil War. My ancestors settled in what is now Dunbar about 1806, long before WV became a state. I am a storyteller and love to share stories about the Civil War. I have not heard this story, but worthy of being in a WV history book. By the way, I just found your channel. WOW! It is great. Thank you.
@@Stayc_Jane You travel all the way to Dunbar to shop at Kroger! Goodness!! Isn't that quite a drive??? But, I understand why you would drive as it is a pretty neat drive. Yes, it is a small world. Thank you for your comment.
Born and raised in WV, still here and not planning on leaving. I live about 45 minutes from Logan. First time watching your channel, and I love it. Ssubscribing!
Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪 New subscriber here 👍 I'm wondering why they hung one of them and sold the other? That grave is really nice and the cemetery. The wrought iron railing around it is common but the headstone and inscription is usually facing the other way 🤔 I've never seen one with an inscription facing towards the top of the grave. Usually the headstone would be the other way around facing the longer part of the grave where body was buried.
Hello! thanks for joining us. We traced our ancestry to Ireland =D anyways, no it isnt common to do that here, I guess it was so you could read it better? it is odd
When a black person was accused of any crime the actions of "seeking justice" can't be quantified. It could be as simple a the man that was sold was considered worth more than the man killed. They would not have need any proof the slaves did the crime at the time. The accusation would be enough to condemn. It's possible the fence was accidently put up the wrong way around.
@@julzmgrforll7278 I agree, I have a hard time believing slaves murdered their owner knowing they wouldn’t get very far and could be murdered themselves for far less such as glancing at the wrong white person. The gravestone is super odd too headstones don’t usually say how the person died etc…. I say the husband did it and blamed the slaves but who knows.
Back in those times, it was more common to have the grave marker facing outwards so that family and friends who wanted to visit the deceased person, would not walk across the grave which was, and still is, considered very bad manners. You would never see it now but back then, not that uncommon. I’ve seen some graves like it in the Northeast (I am from Texas) and in Illinois (where my mom is from). Often the south (yes, I’m including Texas) is big on superstition and they simply didn’t want anyone walking on her grave as it could bring bad luck to the person walking and the family of the deceased. As the iron around the grave would not really allow for someone to read her tombstone once it was erected, they simply faced it outwards. I think Boot Hill in Tombstone Arizona has a couple of graves like that.
My Grannies maiden name was Light and her married name was Parsons which is my family name. My Dad grew up in Logan. It's a beautiful place. I have always loved Logan because it's where my Dad n the family is from n it's a beautiful place to visit. It's full of wonderful memories. And beautiful streets, stores n all kids of interesting places all over it.
How sad . Some people are just bad!! Thanks for sharing. I try to catch every one of your vids. I enjoy doing this as well. But I dont document. You and Leo do a great job so please keep on doing this I may run into yous some day.
New subscriber. Love this channel and will binge watch other videos when I get a chance. My roots are in the Montgomery WV area. Powellton Hollar to be exact
I have always wondered...way, way back...cemeteries were often on a hill close to the town. Usually the town was below. Way back then people had wells for their water supply. Back then people were usually buried in wooden coffins. (some didn't even have one) After years of heavy rains, water seeping down underground etc. eventually entering into the water wells.....wouldn't the rotting coffins, (having since rotted in the ground), allow the remaining decayed corpse's "stuff" seep into the water and then through time enter into the town's water below ? I know I did not word this exactly right...but I think you know what I was going for here. Just a question
I have heard that also cemeteries were located on a hill outside of town, because the land was not practical for farming, cultivation, or building structures.
I can relate to the feeling torn as to who the bad guy was. The way I see it, they all were the bad guys. She and her husband shouldn't have owned slaves, and in divine providence, they paid for it. On the other hand, the slaves didn't seem to have killed in self-defense, which would have been the only justifiable reason they could have had. I can't really understand what they were actually trying to accomplish. It's not like they could have just taken the money and went on their merry way to just happily live their lives back in those days, even if they hadn't harmed this woman.
Self defense? They were slaves, treated as property, worse than even a hated pet. All of them would've been right to kill all the masters and free themselves.
@@nathanmyles3785 You missed my point. They COULD NOT free themselves. They were doomed the minute they laid a hand on this woman. That's just the cold hard facts of life back then. Also, not all slaves were abused, nor did all slave owners WANT to own slaves. Some were legally stuck with them.
I'm sorry this happened to her but I can't help but think were the slaves mistreated and held years of animosity? They found this chance to be free? People had no business owning human beings.
If his wife was alive when he left, why didn't he take her to celebrate the holiday with him? Usually married folks spend the holidays together. Maybe she couldn't travel for some? Seems weird. Hubby could have killed her, left and came back and blamed the slaves? Maybe I've watched too many crime shows.
You just may have a point there.
AND did he remarry ❓❓❓🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
They were playing kickball with slave babies until they were decapitated, they used slave babies as live bait for catching alligators, they whipped pregnant women and SA them in front of their slave husbands……but you ask the silly question if you thinking the husband killing his own wife and blaming it on the slaves is reaching??? Clearly you don’t know the full scope of the atrocious history of this country LOL!
i’m with you on this one emmitt til was blamed and murdered for a lie
I wonder how many times people killed people in the worst way and blame the slaves?
I feel sad because they built the town on Native American burial grounds.
who was here before the native americans, there were others here before them,
The whole country is if you think about it 😞💔
@@kathyparkhurst7005 indigenous people were on this land for twenty thousand plus years. Nice attempt at deflecting.
I live about an hour from this place and it is very sad , but for the most part , they did try to preserve sacred things ... there's a town in our state that built everything around the burial mounds and it's a very interesting place called Moundsville ...
Agree that indigenous ppl were ppl here 20,000 years ago. Do you believe that the ppl of the Clovis culture became who we sometimes refer to as American Indians? Was Clovis first? Did Clovis die off or move on & then who we refer to as American Indians make their way to North America? I’m not asking to be a smart ass. These are really interesting questions to me & I don’t know the answer.
Sometimes I wonder if the first inhabitants of North America died off after a cataclysmic event like a possible Younger Dryas meteor strike or a super volcanic eruption.
The American Indians & any cultures that were here before them or became them obviously took great care of the land. We don’t trip over their garbage nor worry that we’ll unknowingly get exposed to their nuclear waste. I admire that immensely.
Is it possible her husband killed her, then blamed the slaves???
absolutely
Afterall, during that era, who are people apt to believe, an enslaved supposed "non-person" with no rights or a white man? Just sayin.' And I grant you no investigation was done-- no investigation which contradicted the claims of the white husband.
Although I wouldn't blame the slaves.
@@todddanforth8853 neither would i.
You get an A+ for a very woke answer.
My son works as a signalman on the N&S in Welch West Virginia and a lil cat jumped up in the back of his truck and my boy just kept him and his daughter named him Banjo, ole Banjo is 100% a Hunter, comes gets his breakfast and dinner and back on patrol. Best ole cat I’ve ever seen, the mice and rats he’s left at their door would fill a coal car. Love Your channel! Like spending time with a ole friend!
What a nice comment thank you!
Aaaah...the scrappers are the best kitties ever.
@@sherbearb.1593 he ain’t a petting cat though, he’s all business gets his breakfast or dinner and off to work, he is a pretty cat black with white face, belly and paws,
my old cat,,, he would kill western diamondback rattlesnakes he was faster than a rattler
@@edwinthompson6510 that’s a killing machine!!! Not sure how’d Banjo would do with h a Rattlesnake, thank God must of them live in the really wooded areas of West Virginia, we get more Copperheads, bad thing about them no warning.
….my husband was born in Kentucky…they say he was a hill billy ….he was the smartest, most intelligent man I have ever met….kind, considered….hardworking……I am German and over many years of traveling with him I got to love Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee….I love the people….love the stories….love their way of life…..it is so sad, that so many of the young people do not value where they came from…….
Hillbilly doesn't mean dumb
Do you still value the caucus mountains?
Cause that's where you really come from!
If you don't know where you come from,
You don't know where your going!
Well said and you Hit the Nail on the Head ! I am a Kentuckian also
The ground is not cursed, it’s sacred. But those who disturb and disrespect it may be cursed.
THOUGH MURDER IS NEVER GOOD NEITHER IS SLAVERY
The slaves was framed
@@niviaholman1185 OKAY
Slavery actually had the effect of greatly benefiting the descendants of the slaves. Very bright silver lining.
What, you think they'd rather be in Africa? Lol!
@@Carlton_Wilson it did NOT!!!
@@alibalbee2883 Think, as opposed to allowing your emotions and personal biases determine your outlook. Be objective.
Yes, the long dead practice of importing slaves from Africa to North America was an enormous benefit to each and every single black person currently residing in the single greatest, most successful, most influential, most wealthy, most powerful, most free nation that has ever existed in the entire history of the human species. If you really don't believe that to be true, perhaps you should emigrate to Africa?
No? No, you would not like it there at all.
My great great grandfather had loaned a man a saddle that lived near them and the man hadn't returned the saddle so my gg-grandfather and his friend went to go get the saddle from the man. When they arrived at his house the man asked if they wanted to play cards and they went inside and started drinking moonshine and playing cards. The man that had borrowed the saddle was losing and he told my gg-grandfather and his friend he had to use the outhouse. The man walked outside and got a mauling axe and came back in. My gg-grandfather and his friend were sitting at the table with their backs to the door and the man walked up behind them and struck his friend in the head with the sharp end of the axe and my gg-grandfather turned and was struck with the blunt end right in the forehead. The man drug their bodies outside to the woodpile and went back in and past out drunk. My gg-grandfather came to and crawled on his belly into town where they managed to save him. Awhile later the man was out on bail and got gunned down on the side of the street. He was buried but the body was dug up and his bones were turned into windchimes that hung in a tree at the edge of the property as a warning. My gg-grandfathers skull was caved in and he wore a hat low to his browline to cover it the rest of his life.
What a story, thanks for sharing
What a story that was. So sorry this happened to your gg grandfather Did your Gg grandfather get his saddle back? That is sad about his friend.
That is something you need to write down and share to pass on down to your family members. Also do you know what year it was that this happened to your great-great-grandfather?
Sad.
That's gruesome , sorry for your Great kin folks .
@@tmcgee1614 We pass down family stories down here. There is usually a keeper of the history in each generation and the information is given to all who want it. We are busy trying to preserve history-not rewrite it.
It just seems so disrespectful on so many levels and so many different ways.......the building on graveyards and such.
It's funny though how the husband was the only one who heard her last words....so we just have to take his word for it. It's just odd that only one slave was hanged but the other was simply sold. An unheard type of ending, especially for that given time in America.
I first visited Logan a few years ago. My mom and uncle were born there. My maternal great grandparents settled there after coming from Italy. It was fun listening to mom and uncle reliving some of their cherished memories. Like any rail town, mom had the obligatory "foot stuck in the rails with a train approaching" story. Drove down to Omar (had to edit, named the wrong town), where my Nana was born. Hard to imagine my Italian kin raising their large family there during the depression. I left part of my heart there for them ❤️
Very neat thanks for sharing
Nice story… loved your grandmama‘s obligatory story lmao 🤣 kinda like our old kinfolk obligatory stories Walking to school and back
Doubt it @MickeyRob many white passing blacks called themselves Italian descended
@@jamestabor7725 my mom told me they ran a restaurant there called The Wooden Shoe. During the depression, they would give food away. My Nana was number 4 of 13 children, only 11 survived. They all lived into their 80s and 90s, even my Nonna was 91 (great grandma) when she passed. I do know my gr grandfather worked in a coal mine until my Nana begged him not to. And he quit, just like that.
My mom's dad worked for the Logan Banner. His grandfather came from NYC to be editor there. Then my grandparents came to Dayton Ohio since he was offered a great job at one of the newspapers here. He retired in 1972. His family was Schuster. My Italian side was Trapasso. The Italian ones ended up moving up to White Plains, NY.
@@kaleahcollins4567 interesting, I hadn't heard of that. Sad they couldn't own their heritage. Gotta do whatever it takes to survive ❤️
Edit: ive got better stories
Im from Logan. Heres a ghost story. My brother and i would go run around the mountains and just do what we wanted as we had no parents only a great grandmother who was too old and too poor to take care of us, we were 6 and 7 yrs old. So we run the mountains looking for turtles and pawpaws everyday to eat. One day we stumble upon a hole in the side of the mtn im guessing its a coal shoot or an air passageway to mines in the mountain. My brother decides to crawl in and gets stuck with his legs barely hanging out the hole. Hes screaming and i cant pull him out and hes squirming only going further into the hole. So i run down the mtn to try to find help and gather town folks to come up to save him. This is around 1987 or so. When we get back up the mountain to the hole my brother is sitting next to the hole on the ground just spaced out. One of the adults i think his last name was Dempsey asked my brother how he got out the hole. He said an Indian man pulled him out.
very cool! Thanks for sharing
God bless that Indian man.
Maybe an angel
@@70applejack An Indian angel!! 😉
😮
It is a very cool fact that a blacksmith built that fence around the grave, something I've never really thought about it until you mentioned it.
Thanks 🙏
I thought the same thing. I've seen a lot of fencing at cemeteries like this and never thought about the history of how it was made. Sometimes it's hard to redirect our minds to the past and how things were done back then.
@@amyhall8282 you are absolutely right about that that's for sure.
It looked cast to me but I could be wrong.
Try not to trip around that grave though. That looks like a hazard lol
West…..by god Virginia. My family was all over West Virginia. I live in Ohio. Have for years but I graduated from Harman High School. My family came from Scotland…..actually Ireland as well. Ulster Scots. My 6x great grandfather was an amazing American who fought the British in the revolution. He was a fairly well known frontiersman out of fort wheeling. His name was Moses Williamson. Very proud of him and two sons who fought in the Revolution. Family had homesteads in Sistersville and Friendly West Virginia. He even knew and spent time with the famous frontiersman Lew Wetzel. His father came here in 1744 from Scotland. Samuel Williamson. My son is an eighth generation American. We are going to Fife next year to see our grandfathers grave in Scotland.
Awesome story thanks! I wonder if he's linked to our home town of Williamson
Tell him we said thanks for helping stealing out country we don’t know where we would be without guys like him
I live about 40 minutes from there. My grandma Goodrich Bailey was related to Lewis Wetzel
You're perfectly fine to record anywhere in public as long as you're in publicly accessible areas under the 1st amendment. Great story and journalism!
hahaha
That's what I was thinking 👍
Took the words right out of my mouth
Not on private property ... whether you can access it from a road or not.
@@thehillbillyfiles If you are not on private property you can film whatever you want, even film private property. Do not believe me but if you truly want to know find out for yourself. Most people do not know their rights and the ruling elites do not want you to know. Easier for them to violate your rights and enslave. If you do not think that is and has been going on I would say you better wake up. Interesting video, Thanks !
Born & Raised in WV, and I know A LOT about the culture and history here but I still often find myself learning something new even after all these years. We as humans truly never stop learning for those willing to seek knowledge 💯 📚 🤓
Very interesting case & documentary! 💯 Looking forward to more videos of similar content! 🍿 👀 We appreciate the work put into what you do 👊 🖤
Thanks so much 😊
He probably killed her himself & blamed it on the slaves. That’s why he allegedly went to some Bs Christmas party instead of being at home with her instead. That Christmas party was the alibi. Back then u could blame ANYTHING on the slaves & they’d be killed or punished
True
OK this is what really happened: Mr. Lawson gets the two slaves all sauced up and drunk until they pass out. He goes into the house and kills his wife with the poker iron. He gets cleaned, dressed in his best clothes and goes to the Christmas party - so he has an alibi. He comes back to the crime scene and Mrs. Lawson conveniently tells him, just before she dies, that it was their two slaves. Right. So one gets lynched and he pockets the money from the sale of the other. Mr. Lawson is now a freeman, and he’s probably going to hook up with whomever he met at the Christmas party. The end.
I think you’ve got it!
I live in West Virginia, northern panhandle. My dad was born in Logan which he said it was super small and seeing it he was right. He use to tell us about the ghosts down there and the tunnels. Thank you for all that you do for all of us. Stay safe in your travels.
I grew up right on the Lincoln county and Boone County border. Logan wasn’t far from me and I’ve heard many stories but I’ve never heard this. I knew about the tunnels and whatnot though.
WHAT tunnels? I lived there birth thru high school 1982 n NEVER knew any of that!
Train tunnel ghost stories? Would love to hear some 👻🚂
@@samanthab1923 22 Mine Road and Mamie Thurman’s Ghost - Logan and Mingo Counties and Dingess Tunnel aka “Bloody Mingo” Tunnel.
Very cool! and thank you
Was there ever any question of the slaves possibly having been framed? It just seems odd that they would commit such a crime as it would mean certain & horrible deaths to them both. Not only that, but even if they succeeded, they wouldn’t be able to profit from anything as nobody would accept slaves having money, regardless of how they may have acquired it. I could be totally wrong but this is based on my public school education & my obsession with crime solving lol. I am just fascinated by this story. It just seems really odd. Thank you for sharing, I enjoyed your charisma & the way you told this story. I love how you included the dog in a close up too lol.
It does seem fishy, it's easy to set people up then, no less enslaved people
And thank you for the kind words 💗
On December 27, 1847, shortly after her husband‘s death, Ann was mending a shirt for one of the slaves so that he and another slave could go to town for supplies. Thinking that they could be free after Anthony’s death, the slave she was mending the shirt for, struck her on the head with an iron poker and she died. The slaves knew that money was kept in one of the drawers in the bureau. The poker was again used to pry open the drawer and take the money. Two of the slaves, Bill and Hardin, were accused. The one that killed her was hanged, probably on the courthouse lawn. The other slave was severely punished.
I did not know that Logan County was formerly Virginia, not WV.
The family settled on the present site of the Logan County Courthouse. Anthony was one of Logan County‘s earliest merchants at Guyandotte, VA (now WV). The Logan family donated the land for the Logan County Courthouse with the stipulation that if the courthouse was moved the land would revert to the heirs of the estate.
Alcohol brings out the evil in people.
They had no business owning other humans in the first place.
Tell that to the blks who owned the blks in Africa in the first place, and sold them to the highest bidder to go to other countries. And still do
@@roringusanda2837 You both are right
I agree!
I agree! We’re ALL equal under The Lord🙏
This is the first video of yours that I've seen. EXCELLENT! So happy I found your channel! I especially liked that you pointed out the fence around the gravestone was so old it would have been made by a blacksmith. I've never left the Pacific Northwest and get so caught up in seeing the rest of the country through video such as yours that I don't think of details such as the fence would have been made by a blacksmith and taken a bit of time to make. Thanks for those kinds of details, they're much appreciated!
Thanks for watching! Much appreciated
Victoriah 1923, Me Too! This is so fascinating.
This was my first too 👍
@@luannm-crazycatlady6621 🙋♀️ mine too
I think it popped up in my feed because I watch a lot of mysterious WV that’s a good channel too Yeah I’ll be looking for these videos lol. I like this guy the way he does the videos
I love to take photos of old fences especially with all the layers of paint !!!!
My family and I were just stranded there for a day, and overnight. On our way home from Man my truck broke down, and dropped it off at that Dodge Ram dealer repair shop. I am surprised I didn’t see the stray dogs in that lot by the tracks. We unloaded our Rmax sxs there and drove up to that City cemetery. I would not have looked for an old cemetery to explore if it wasn’t for your you tube channel. I walked up the hill farther also. It is really old and overgrown up there. Now days because of you guys I am going to be drawn to old mountain graveyards. Thanks for the great work.
This is an interesting story. You both do an incredible job bringing us these unknown stories. Thanks and keep up the great work!
Aww thank you 😊 Teresa!
Only one side of this story. We have no way of knowing this is what happened. We all know how things went in those days.
Exactly
Hell still to this very day.
Nothing beats going to see and touch history for yourself. Really refines your perspectives.
So very true!
The cemetery where Anthony Lawson is buried (died 1849) is not a civil war cemetery. It is the oldest cemetery in Cabell county with graves going back to the early nineteenth century.
ok thanks
Oh my gosh, my Dad n his side of the family was/ is from there!!! How exciting to see this!!! Thank you so much for this video!!! Thank you. It's so wonderful to see it again, it's been years since I've been there. Since my Granny passed away . I love Logan n I miss going there to visit. ❤️💖💗❤️💖💗❤️💖💗
Your so welcome 😁
VERY interesting...thank you for taking the time to produce this mini-documentary.
Thank you
I just now ran across this channel and I'm so thrilled that you actually filmed n talked about a true story in Logan !! How awesome. You made my day !!!! 💗💖❤️❤️💖💗. I'm a subscriber forever !!!
Aww thank you 🙏 we appreciate it
I refuse to judge a man who murders his owner. I'm not qualified. No one alive now is.
I just found your channel and I loved all the information you had. What a sad tragic story, thank you so much for this video, I love cemeteries, and the stories they hold. I signed up to your channel, I’m so happy I found you ❤️
Thank you for joining us! We appreciate it
My good friend is a historian of Josephine County Grant's pass Oregon. She researched past incidents out of the Archives in the historical society, Recopying newspaper headlines as they apperd in the papers.
After purchasing her book. of Murder,Mayhem and Mystery of Josephine County by Jean Boland you can't help to think that every little town and city was as peaceful as they tried to portray in the history books. You literally rolled the dice of life everday.
Which part do you find sad and tragic? The slavery of two children for their whole lives or the fact that they killed one of their enslavers? Just curious.
@@SagebrushRambles I think both the slavery was sad and tragic, and also that these young people were forced into murder. Slavery was a horrible thing 😢
@@carolynkatsilas8559 we’ve got minimum wage employment today…it enriches some sections of society at the expense of others.
More or less the same thing..as yet theres no blame attached to it, by society as a whole. One day minimum wage jobs will be outed..
It's no good building on Indian burial grounds, or digging the ground up. Nothing good comes from that. But it was nice of the city hall to give you permission to film.
Fascinating story! I live in a cursed city too. One can tell it's cursed. I hope I get chance to leave one day. If this town lets me... there's a curse here that anyone who leaves, always comes back. I've seen this happening again and again! No one will tell me the truth about all this though, folks just mock me by telling me scary stories and then laugh if I believe it. So now I don't believe anything. Odd folks! Very odd!
Awesome piece of history! Thank you for the education. I've been born and raised in WV.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love the stories you you guys do. I learn so much. Thank you for sharing
Thanks 🙏
Well I'll be! My whole family is from Logan & I NEVER knew any of this!!! Thank you! I loved it. Subbed.
Your wheezy chortling makes me laugh as well!!😆 Did you ever watch Hanna Barbera cartoon "Wacky Races"?? Well, you sound like Mutley!! 😂 Great stuff!!
we had to look up Mutley, made us laugh thank you!
Thank you for your gift as a SCRIBE to bring these stories to life no matter how it makes people feel. Humans are truly an amazing species in our ability to think and create from the good, the bad, and the ugly
What a nice thing to say, thank you
Nice comment, @ Devyne Revelation 13:10 comes to mind for me because it brings out he that leaded into slavery must go into slavery and how other things must happen because of it. Your thoughts?
This sounds fishy the husband did it
A sad story. Thanks for posting it. You should know that you do not need anyone's permission to video record public buildings and the police should know that, but its nice that you asked.
I just found your channel and subscribed! West Virginia is absolutely gorgeous in the fall. I am from the western US and have only traveled through (and over) WV briefly on my way to Ohio. But I’ll never forget all the gorgeous autumn colors all over the mountains in WV.
Sad story,but amazing history.
Thank you love the content and your narration.❤️ From NY
Thanks for listening
Nothing sad people have no right to own people that’s evil
I love quaint little Appalachian towns. Most people want to go to the beach or whatever. I like to get away from the masses and spend holidays and vacations hobnobbing with regular folks in "out of the way" country towns I've never seen. Thanks for the history lesson. This makes me want to go there and have lunch and look around. I think it is pretty close to Hatfield and McCoy territory too, and would probably be a great area to spend a week or more. 👍
It's a great area, Pikeville KY is a good base, close to it all
I’m in old England,i wonder where she was born in England? I could go and check out her hometown…
@@griswald7156 That would be very cool. Unfortunately I have no way of figuring this one out. Maybe the @thehillbillyfiles will have an idea.
@@ralphcantrell3214 where are the hillbilly files?
@@griswald7156 Longhorsby, in the county of Northcumberland, England is what it says
I was born in Logan, I never want to return there, my father work as a coal miner for the Ethel Chilton mine company for pennies, we lived in a coal company house, shopping at the Coal company store, with coal company money while the rich owners lived in luxury. Never want to return.
Oh I understand
I live in Gilbert. It’s a 30 minute drive south of Logan on RT 44. I’ve never heard this story. I am a history buff, especially civil war, and WW2.
What would these slaves do with the money? Like where would they go spend it?It seems really like a lame story, why hang one slave but sell the other one? I have some doubts on this story as being factual from the husband.
Same! My gut says they were framed. I want to know! Lol
I loved your video. All of it. It was very interesting. I live in Ireland and I love stuff like this. You have a great sense of humour. The bit I loved most was the dog jumping on to the truck 😂😂😂 I had to watch your video 3 times coz my side were aching from laughter because that dog got his 15 minutes of fame 🇮🇪💚
Thank you so much! We love Ireland btw, planning a trip there soon
@@thehillbillyfiles you would be more than welcome in fact Cead Mile Failte ( 100 thousand welcomes )
You are so right when people desecrate Indian burial sites, its bad.
They logged over the top of a large one close to me knowing it was there in Upstate SC. I live on part of the village,and now they're about to build a subdivision on the site of the cemetery. It's got everybody pissed!
It is usually unknowingly done
They do this knowing these cites are there. It’s been done throughout history every state. All purposefully done to ultimately wipe clean any ancestral belongings, burials , sacredness of people that first lived on what is America today. No accident.!
Many people slaughtered and wrongfully so , only to be exploited years later with companies taking tribe names or logos and nice neighborhoods naming their streets after tribes as well. No real honor or compassion for the ancestors or sacred lands whatsoever after all the years. The golf course nearest you, or your own home is probably on sacred grounds long forgotten or purposely so by those that built it.!?
Sidestep Adventures has shown many slave cemeteries where their descendents were also buried, that have been planted over by lumber farms. Often there'll be grave markers shoved up in piles, by the big equipment removing stumps readying the property for a following planting. They claim the black cemeteries aren't well marked, but that is a damn lame excuse since we have GPS.
ANY burial sites. People tend to act like Indian burial grounds aren't as sacred as cemeteries of today.
With all the billions of people buried since time began, you probably can't dig anywhere anymore without hitting one. Very interesting story.
Very true
There was a famous socialite murdered in Logan County. I believe her last name was Thurmond. Her murderer has not been found today. You might think about doing a video on this lady.
We plan to! Her name is Mamie, she's buried in the same cemetery
@@thehillbillyfiles That is awesome. Isn't Devil "Anse" Hatfield's grave near Ann in Logan County?
@@judypierce7028 it is in Logan county, not that close to this cemetery about a hour or so away through the mountains
Oh I would be so interested in that lady Mamie the socialite. Love your narration and bit of accent. Would have loved to move to WV but I'm a NYer so might not have been accepted. I am in poor health now anyway and am older. Just always loved mountains and nature.NY has some beautiful mountains and such but WV lovely too. Have a great day!
@@jackiemack8653 Thanks Jackie, we will bring you that video soon, thanks for the support
There are a bunch of stories out there that include an Indian burial grounds and curses. Tunnels too, that's always creepy. No doubt about the story though, written in stone. I love WV. I used to go to a town every now and then near South Forks. Beautiful country.
@@lindawilliams6841 What are you talking about?
Enjoying your stories. Thank you
The husband did it
Born on St. Patrick's day. 17 was not her number. Born on the 17th in the 17.00's and murdered on the 17th in '47.
Wow...it sure wasn't, right!? That is the first time I have ever heard of seven being an unlucky number!!
We only heard their story I wonder what was done to those 2 boys to make them murder their mistress god only knows the horrors they've seen
Though not an advocate of taking anyone's life. Enslaving humans would be enough to not have to wonder why.
"boys"?
OR they could have been two bad boys who betrayed a woman who was kind to them and treated them like family. The truth is hard to tell.
Wonderful, yet sad story. Thank u for the video and information and goin to the actual sites, showing. You bring so much history to everyone. All stories I've watched so far very interesting, and I always have loved the civil war era.
Thanks so much 🙂
Just found and subbed to your channel. I love people’s history. Thank you.
Welcome aboard! thank you
Wow what a tragic but fascinating piece of history! I love folklore like this
Very interesting story. Different times for sure. Lots of history in these little towns. I live in a city very rich with great history as well. Wheeling, WV
Wheeling has lots of great stuff, we hope to do some stories there soon
Big cities have even more stories!
I hope you can film some of the tunnels. Another great video . Leo you all are so good at this.
Great video Leo, thank you very much.
You do know how to tell a good story.
I know the question has already been asked, but why was only one slave hung,
and the other sold? Perhaps one day you can show us the grave of the Indian Princess. Thank you again Leo, have a great day.
Only one slave did the actual killing, which is Bill , the other was involved and ok with it. So for some reason he got off . Thanks for supporting us!
@The Hillbilly Files - Legends and Locations You are more than welcome! Thank you very much for getting back to me. One last question if I may? When Bill was hung, was he probably 🤔 hung there on the property, and buried in an unmarked grave?
@@michaelbedinger4121 He was hung on a tree that is now gone at the courthouse, its not known where hes buried. I wish I knew
@The Hillbilly Files - Legends and Locations Thank you again for getting back to me, and for the information. It is very much appreciated. I am guessing that Bill might have been buried where other slaves at the time was buried, or perhaps he was buried way out in the woods 🪵 in the middle of nowhere.
Have a great weekend.
Something a little disturbing about this question. Be well and God bless ❤️
It's always better to ask then to demand. A lot of people demand. Last night 3 people asked to take my picture I politely asked for tips because I'm a street performer. The people were cool and paid me.
And in small towns the police will just make you leave and you get no video. What are you going to do? Bring a mob back..sue? Its just better to avoid the BS. thanks for your comment
@@thehillbillyfiles Too many of the last couple of generations have been taught to thoughtlessly "demand their rights".
You're wise enough to know that you not only have rights, but you also have the RIGHT to not demand those rights.
There is a saying down around Logan, “ if you find a skinny person here they have been sick way too long “.
hahaha
Rob? You can't rob someone who is stealing your body and labor. And unless they had special needs, they would have been long gone once they got what they needed to get away from that. Story is an example of what happens when folks lack empathy for all of the characters, doesn't make sense at all. Young, men with a divine right to their own lives would have been gone if they did what they did to get away. They would not have waited to get attacked.
Queen Nanny, they most probably were guilty. Stop allowing others to brainwashed you and think for yourself.
My grandparents lived in Bluefield. Our ancestors were from Amonate and Jenkin Jones. These towns were close to the V/WV border. The family immigrated to the US in 1898. I want to hear more stories from this territory.
When we can travel into other areas we will do more, we like to be at the locations
1:00 a m. And I'm binge watching your videos. My goodness they are interesting. I always knew that Logan was a coal town. Didn't know it has such interesting history. Thank you both.
My Dad's father was a blacksmith. I'm sure they did wonderful work. Sad story, but it probably happened more than we know.
About as common as the sun setting...they had to nip this stuff in bud.
I say the husband did it and just blamed the slaves.
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Do you blame them? Nobody is standing in line to have lost identities, kidnapped children, beaten, starved, and raped. GOD only knows what else! For all we know, the husband could have killed her and blamed the slaves! Wouldn't be the first time!
@@jenniferkincaid6148 That’s a possibility for sure.
I grew up in Delbarton WV. My dad was principle at Tug Valley high school and also Burch High school in the 80`s so happy I found your channel
I just found your channel and subscribed, love it, it’s very interesting. Thank you.
Thank you 😊
Interesting that she lived just long enough to identity her killers...hmmm. Makes you wonder who Mr. Lawson was meeting under the mistletoe! 😮 Another incredibly interesting destination and story. I'm seriously hooked on your channel. I'd sure love to see what that town looked like pre-Civil War. Thank you once again for all of the details you bring us!❤
I'm from Lee county Virginia (live in Johnson city TN) absolutely ❤this channel so glad I found it!!!!!
Thanks so much 🙏
Husband did it, blamed her slaves
No doubt. This story is shady as hell.
Ok wokester.
My husband’s a Lawson so I’m going to rewatch this and take notes for his genealogy. Family history claims ancestors go back to William “The Rebel” Lawson in Scotland. Interesting video! Come to think of it, we should go visit when he gets his vacation time.
Wonderful! Lawson sold the land that is now our home town of Williamson. Also his daughter married a Williamson and had the first white child in the county in Williamson WV. There's is a article about him I'll link you to, he did a lot in the area
Where's he from? If you don't mind me asking. I'm a Lawson, from Southwest Virginia
@@BowtechShooter45 born in Jamestown Ohio
Thanks for the story ... Lisa Lawson Clay
Maybe if this woman and her husband hadn’t owned people that were viewed as “property”, she wouldn’t have been killed by them. We reap what we sow!
Well said.
Another uneducated and idiotic statement. You do not count skippy.
@SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN WHITE MAN murder and killing. Two different things.
The Bible thumper don't like it when you tell them you have to reap what you sow.
@SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN WHITE MAN True. And so is to enslaved humans.
Those slaves didn’t kill her. Her husband’s word is all they had to go on with no real evidence. This was done to the slaves ALL THE TIME, and they were innocent!
Sad story but I guess she shouldn't have been surprised when her slaves murdered her.if you treat people like animals eventually some of them will act like an animal. Why did they hang only one slave & sell the other one
I agree, thanks Kim 🙏
Agreed
Why do people tell this old tells. No one knows what it was like back in the slaves days. I’ve saw video’s where slaves said they were treated very well. I guess it just depended on who bought you.
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We're all slave's now and the world is a plantation.
@Mary Owens you believe there is such a thing as treating a slave well? Are you serious?
So, the only “witness” was the dead wife’s husband?
My early years were in Logan or the hills up varneys branch , dirt poor son of a coal miner , dad died of black lung from the coal dust he inhaled over the years , we had our own mine we dug coal for heat and cook stove , didn't know about indoor plumbing till the first grade. 1956 till 63 when I went to live with relatives in Ohio. I've never been back , many I will visit before I pass , my grand parents are in the varney cemetery. Might check them out or that cemetery,
Very interesting story, thank you so much. Maybe we will get to Varney cemetery eventually, it's not far
Grand ma was Golda mae Marcum married grandpa Jake marcum , saw grandma planted in 60 or 61 , I was young and not quite understanding all the fuss and flowers. Not sure about grandpa Jake, I was given away like a puppy in a box at wallmart . Live now Ontario Oregon. A high desert town. And just turned 69 this January. But would like to revisit those massive rocks I played on as a kid.
My late mom's best friend was Alberta Bell, from Logan WV. Sweetest soul ever on the earth! She had a cousin named Easter Bell. I'd say she was born in the 1920s.
I has a great aunt name Easter. I've never heard anyone else with that name.
I’m not sure how I ended up here, but I love it! Subbed 😎
Awesome! Thank you!
I haven't been thru Logan in a long time. My family is from Delbarton and Ragland. Thanks for this video. It brought back some great memories! Definitely have a new subscriber 😊
Logan is an interesting town. My wife’s cousin was just buried there as part of my wife’s family are Logan people .
First time on your channel. Really enjoyed your telling of the local history. Very interesting content. Liked and Subscribed👍 Greetings from Adelaide, Australia 🦘
Awesome, thank you! I have a old friend in Adelaide
Isn't is strange that the murdered woman and her husband have almost identical headstones & fencing around them both, yet in different towns...!?!?!
I too was thinking about the tragic murder, yet she had slaves.....
Hmm. My great grandmother's maiden name was Lawsson. My 5 greats back grandfather was Gorin. The family settled in Kentucky. He moved to Erin,Tennessee. There he was a small farmer, miller, and J of the Peace. Died in 1830. He is buried in family plot on the homestead with his wife, and one daughter, and their 3 slaves, a man, woman, and child. Many southern small farmers considered their slaves family.
Lawson had a lot of family, who knows
Their 3 slaves shoulda killed them too! 🤨🪓⚔️🛡️
I love you,you are just delightful in your videos. Really enjoyed this one. I'm a southern lady,I love Southern stories.
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it 🙂
What an interesting story!! I am a native WVirginian born and raised in Dunbar, but now live close to Louisville, KY due to a teaching position.
I am also a historian and absolutely love WVirginia's history particularly the Civil War. My ancestors settled in what is now Dunbar about 1806, long before WV became a state. I am a storyteller and love to share stories about the Civil War. I have not heard this story, but worthy of being in a WV history book. By the way, I just found your channel. WOW! It is great. Thank you.
What a compliment! Thank you 😊
Hi from Roane County WV! I do all my grocery shopping at the Kroger in Dunbar. It’s such a small world.
@@Stayc_Jane You travel all the way to Dunbar to shop at Kroger! Goodness!! Isn't that quite a drive??? But, I understand why you would drive as it is a pretty neat drive. Yes, it is a small world. Thank you for your comment.
Born and raised in WV, still here and not planning on leaving. I live about 45 minutes from Logan. First time watching your channel, and I love it. Ssubscribing!
Thanks Elizabeth!
Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪 New subscriber here 👍 I'm wondering why they hung one of them and sold the other? That grave is really nice and the cemetery. The wrought iron railing around it is common but the headstone and inscription is usually facing the other way 🤔 I've never seen one with an inscription facing towards the top of the grave. Usually the headstone would be the other way around facing the longer part of the grave where body was buried.
Hello! thanks for joining us. We traced our ancestry to Ireland =D anyways, no it isnt common to do that here, I guess it was so you could read it better? it is odd
When a black person was accused of any crime the actions of "seeking justice" can't be quantified. It could be as simple a the man that was sold was considered worth more than the man killed. They would not have need any proof the slaves did the crime at the time. The accusation would be enough to condemn.
It's possible the fence was accidently put up the wrong way around.
Most headstones in Texas have the inscription facing the top of the grave, so if you are standing at the foot, you read it. Her headstone is backward.
@@julzmgrforll7278 I agree, I have a hard time believing slaves murdered their owner knowing they wouldn’t get very far and could be murdered themselves for far less such as glancing at the wrong white person. The gravestone is super odd too headstones don’t usually say how the person died etc…. I say the husband did it and blamed the slaves but who knows.
Back in those times, it was more common to have the grave marker facing outwards so that family and friends who wanted to visit the deceased person, would not walk across the grave which was, and still is, considered very bad manners. You would never see it now but back then, not that uncommon. I’ve seen some graves like it in the Northeast (I am from Texas) and in Illinois (where my mom is from). Often the south (yes, I’m including Texas) is big on superstition and they simply didn’t want anyone walking on her grave as it could bring bad luck to the person walking and the family of the deceased. As the iron around the grave would not really allow for someone to read her tombstone once it was erected, they simply faced it outwards. I think Boot Hill in Tombstone Arizona has a couple of graves like that.
My Grannies maiden name was Light and her married name was Parsons which is my family name. My Dad grew up in Logan. It's a beautiful place. I have always loved Logan because it's where my Dad n the family is from n it's a beautiful place to visit. It's full of wonderful memories. And beautiful streets, stores n all kids of interesting places all over it.
It is a neat little city
Greetings from Georgia. Fascinating story! Thank you.
Thanks Ted! We would love to make it to Georgia soon
How sad . Some people are just bad!! Thanks for sharing. I try to catch every one of your vids.
I enjoy doing this as well. But I dont document. You and Leo do a great job so please keep on doing this
I may run into yous some day.
I have been there . Didn’t know this story. Thank you
Thanks 😊
My instinct is that they were simply repaying a lifetime of cruelty. The robbery was probably an afterthought. Very interesting.
Yeah, because it isn't as if blacks are prone to mindless violence or anything. Right?
Oh, wait, that's right.
@@Carlton_Wilson Dear God, open a history book at some point in your life.
Born and raised there. Great story and video. Love the channel.
Glad you enjoyed it!
New subscriber. Love this channel and will binge watch other videos when I get a chance. My roots are in the Montgomery WV area. Powellton Hollar to be exact
Awesome thank you!
I have always wondered...way, way back...cemeteries were often on a hill close to the town. Usually the town was below. Way back then people had wells for their water supply. Back then people were usually buried in wooden coffins. (some didn't even have one) After years of heavy rains, water seeping down underground etc. eventually entering into the water wells.....wouldn't the rotting coffins, (having since rotted in the ground), allow the remaining decayed corpse's "stuff" seep into the water and then through time enter into the town's water below ? I know I did not word this exactly right...but I think you know what I was going for here. Just a question
Something to think about for sure
I have heard that also cemeteries were located on a hill outside of town, because the land was not practical for farming, cultivation, or building structures.
@@ginnymiller2448 yes, just a lonely area
I can relate to the feeling torn as to who the bad guy was. The way I see it, they all were the bad guys.
She and her husband shouldn't have owned slaves, and in divine providence, they paid for it.
On the other hand, the slaves didn't seem to have killed in self-defense, which would have been the only justifiable reason they could have had.
I can't really understand what they were actually trying to accomplish. It's not like they could have just taken the money and went on their merry way to just happily live their lives back in those days, even if they hadn't harmed this woman.
Self defense? They were slaves, treated as property, worse than even a hated pet. All of them would've been right to kill all the masters and free themselves.
@@nathanmyles3785 You missed my point. They COULD NOT free themselves. They were doomed the minute they laid a hand on this woman. That's just the cold hard facts of life back then.
Also, not all slaves were abused, nor did all slave owners WANT to own slaves. Some were legally stuck with them.
I'm sorry this happened to her but I can't help but think were the slaves mistreated and held years of animosity? They found this chance to be free? People had no business owning human beings.
I'm sure it plays into it
Right the BiblesGOD WORD told slave owner to be fair and mistreat or were the slaves just aggressive.
I wonder if these are my distant relatives?
@@richardlawson6668 Hmm good question!
Crazy thing is there were 1000's of white slaves during 1800's. Just a little history tidbit.
His voice sounds like Gomer Pyle. Brought back many memories!
It's sickening to destroy burial grounds.
Another good video. Thank you Leo!
Thanks again!