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Fact #132422

When:

25121929

Short story:

On Christmas Day, for reasons never conclusively established, sharecropper Charlie Lawson murders his wife and six of his seven children at their farm on Brook Cove Road in Germanton, North Carolina, USA, before shooting himself in the woods nearby. This terrible tragedy will inspire the 1930 song The Murder Of The Lawson Family by The Carolina Buddies