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This article recounts several memorable events in Cleveland County history from the 1800s through the early 1900s. It includes stories of Shelby residents winning the Louisiana lottery in the 1850s, a reported apparition connected to Governor Burton’s death, and a remarkable abdominal surgery performed in the 1880s by local physicians. Later sections describe violent incidents, including the killings of police chiefs in 1901 and 1904, the county’s last public hanging, and a mysterious roadside confrontation in 1909 involving Dr. T. F. McBrayer.
Publication Date
8-7-1950
City
Shelby, NC
Keywords
Billy Corbett, John F. Stephens, Augustus Burton, Mark Carroll, Governor Gordon Hutchins Burton, William Perry Andrews, John Wilson, John the barber, Durbro D. Wilkins, Oliver Perry Gardner, Chauncey Gidney, Robert Shelton Jones, Jim Lowery, Solon Ford, T. M. Lowery, B. Edgar Hamrick, Ben Clark, A. B. Suttle, Joe Kendrick, Ben Palmer, Iverson McBrayer, Frances McBrayer, Miriam McBrayer, Rush Thompson, Shelby, Fallston Road, ghost story, surgery, murder, public hanging
Contributors
Fay Webb Gardner Collection in the Gardner-Webb University Archives
Recommended Citation
Jones, Mamie, "1950, August 7 - Cleveland County Early Days" (1950). Cleveland County Early Days Newspaper Column. 47.
https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/fay-webb-gardner-cleveland-county-early-days-newspaper-column/47