Elizabeth Kiser

GEDCOM Note

≤p>≤em>≤span style="font-family: Arial;">Shocking Murder - We learn, that on Sunday, the 27th ult. Mrs. Long, wife of Mr. George Long of Cabarrus county, was killed by a negro fellow belonging to her father, Mr. George Kiser. The fellow bore a bad character, and had been forbidden, by Mrs. Long, to visit her house, which he had been in the habit of doing clandestinely, for the purpose of seeing a negro girl belonging to the family. He consequently determined upon revenge; and on Sunday, about 3 o'clock, while Mrs. Long was passing alone along the road to her father's, the negro rushed from an ambush where he had been, lying all day, seized and strangled Mrs. L. with two handkerchiefs, tying one round her neck and stuffing the other in her mouth. The fellow was apprehended the same day, andconfessed the murder. The negro girl was also apprehended as an "accessory before the fact" she having furnished the fellow with food while he was lying in wait, and being privy to his designs on Mrs. L.'s life. They were both put in prison, and will be tried at the superior court which sits this week in Concord. Source:Western Carolinian RRsw newspaper Tues. 13 May 1828 from 1820-1829 Abstracts NC Raleigh Newspaper Vol. II page 424 (item 3514)"≤/span>≤/em>≤/p>
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