| Birth: | 1848 | | Death: | May 4, 1868 | 
Civil War Folk Figure. Namesake of the traditional folk ballad, "Hang down your head Tom Dooley/hang down your head and cry/killed poor Laura Foster/now you're going to die." Laura Foster was supposedly stabbed to death by her boyfriend Tom Dooley in 1866, but rumor has it she may have actually been killed by her own sister, Ann, who was having an affair with Tom. The motive being jealousy. Tom never confessed, but hanged for the killing all the same. She is buried about five miles away from him.
Cause of death: Hanged
Search Amazon for Thomas Dula | | | Burial:
Tom Dooley Gravesite
Ferguson
Wilkes County
North Carolina, USA |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Jan 01, 2001
Find A Grave Memorial# 2473 |
|
|
|
|
(4.1 after 41 votes)
