A Tree Accurst: Bobby Mcmillon and Stories of Frankie Silver
By Daniel W. Patterson (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) On a wintry night in 1831, a man named Charlie Silver was murdered with an axe and his body burned in a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina. His young wife, Frankie Silver, was tried and hanged for the crime. In later years people claimed that a … Continued