Wilkes County, Minute Docket Superior Court: Tom Dula Case

Title

Wilkes County, Minute Docket Superior Court: Tom Dula Case

Date

1868

Creator

["North Carolina. Clerk of Superior Court (Wilkes County)"]

Place

["Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States"]

Local Call Number

CR.104.311.004

MARS ID

304.16.1 (Box)

Document Details

Title

Wilkes County, Minute Docket Superior Court: Tom Dula Case

Date

1868

Creator

["North Carolina. Clerk of Superior Court (Wilkes County)"]

Rights

This item is provided courtesy of the State Archives of North Carolina and is a public record according to G.S.132.

Description

Tom Dula and Ann Melton were accused of the murder of Laura Foster. Dula, a Confederate veteran, was defended by the former North Carolina Governor, Zebulon B. Vance. Vance succeeded in having the trial moved from Wilkes County to Iredell County, and in having the co-defendants tried individually. The folk character Tom Dooley, best known through popular folk songs, developed out of the story of the real life person Tom Dula. This material was selected for inclusion in the "Studies in Scarlet" Project, organized and partially funded by the Research Libraries Group. The project created a "virtual collection" of digitized primary and secondary documents valuable for researching the legal, historical, and cultural aspects of marriage and other personal relationships in the United States and the United Kingdom from 1815 to 1914. In addition to the State Archives of North Carolina, the participating institutions included the Harvard University Law Library, the New York Public Library, the New York University Law Library, Princeton University Libraries, the University of Pennsylvania Law Library, and the University of Leeds (U.K.). Studies In Scarlet was completed in 1998.

Subject

["Trials (Murder)","Women--Crimes against","Women--Legal status, laws, etc.","Women--United States--Social conditions","North Carolina--History--1865-"]

Index Terms

Dula, Tom, 1843 or 1844-1868| Foster, Laura, -1865 or 1866| Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894| Melton, Ann

Local Call Number

CR.104.311.004

MARS ID

304.16.1 (Box)

Place

["Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States"]

Time Period

["(1860-1876) Civil War and Reconstruction"]

Digital Collections

["Women, Marriage, and the Law"]

Source Collections

["Minute Docket, Superior Court. Minute Dockets, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions and Superior Court. Court Records. Wilkes County. State Archives of North Carolina"]

Physical Characteristics

7 pages

Format

["Legal documents"]

Hosted By

["State Archives of North Carolina"]

Identifier

Wilkes_Minute_Docket_Dula

Wilkes County, Minute Docket Superior Court: Tom Dula Case

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