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The murder of the Lawson family refers to a familicide which took place on December 25, 1929, in Germanton, North Carolina, United States, in which sharecropper Charles Davis "Charlie" Lawson murdered his wife and six of his seven children.
A FAMILY photograph taken before a Christmas Day massacre holds a telling clue of why the slaughter took place. In 1929, tobacco farmer Charles Davis Lawson made the unusual decision to take his ...
The generally peaceful community of Germanton in North Carolina was left baffled when Charles Davis “Charlie” Lawson murdered his wife, Fannie Manring, and six of their children before turning the gun on himself.
On December 25, 1929, Charlie Lawson murdered his wife and six of their seven children before killing himself in Stokes County. The tragedy occurred on their farm, just days after Charlie had taken the whole family into town, bought them new clothes and had them sit for a studio portrait.
On Christmas Day, 1929, the small town of Germanton, North Carolina, was rocked by a familicide. The Lawson family had been a well-known clan in the small town. Headed by patriarch Charlie Lawson, the family were sharecroppers who owned their own farm and had a large family.
Why did a poor North Carolina tobacco farmer kill his wife, six of his kids and himself on Christmas Day, 1929? Despite more than 90 years of rumors and speculations, some family members say they...
Charlie Lawson shot and bludgeoned his wife and six of his seven children in their Germanton cabin on Christmas Day 1929. Photo from “The Meaning of Our Tears” by Trudy J. Smith, 2006. Caskets,...
