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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.
28 gru 2016 · 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 ...
Shortly before Christmas 1929, Charles Lawson took his wife and their seven children, Marie (age 17), Arthur (age 16), Carrie (age 12), Maybell (age 7), James (age 4), Raymond (age 2) and Mary Lou (4 months) into town to buy new clothes and have a family portrait taken.
During this trip, Charlie surprised his family by allowing each member to pick out store-bought clothes, a luxury for a rural farming family in the late 1920s. He also took them to a photography studio, where they posed for what would be their last family portrait.
14 mar 2019 · Two weeks before Christmas of 1929, Charlie Lawson took his family into town, bought everyone new outfits, and had a family portrait taken at a photography studio. This was uncommon...
About 10 days before Christmas, Charlie Lawson drove his family to Winston-Salem, bought everyone new suits of clothing and scheduled this family portrait at a photography studio in the city....
25 gru 2016 · 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.
