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Certainly [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Melton had as strong a motive as Dula for getting rid of Foster. As Dula’s lover, Melton’s jealousy may have driven her to the killing, and that Dula took the blame for her.
The Murder of Laura Foster
Laura’s body was found in a shallow grave with several stab wounds in her chest. Tom Dula quickly became a suspect and he fled to Tennesse. A posse soon caught him and he stood trial.
Tom Dula (pronounced “Dooley”) was born into a poor family from Wilkes County, North Carolina, in 1845. As a youth he became close with Ann Foster and her younger cousin Laura. It is Laura that would later be his downfall.
In May, 1866, on the night she was to meet and elope with Tom [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Laura disappeared. From here, fact and myth intertwine.
Ann Melton was originally indicted along with Dula for the murder, although she was not convicted. It was Melton who told authorities where Laura Foster was buried.
Although Dula wrote a letter before his hanging exonerating Melton [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], reports allege that Ann Melton confessed to the killing on her death bed.
For many musicians, it is the song that they learn first. It has been sung around countless campfires; the soundtrack to marshmallows roasting on fallen branches.
Around Wilkes County, there was much sympathy for Tom Dula. He was a popular young man, handy with a banjo and fiddle, and was alleged to be a war hero. Many locals believed that he was covering for his lover Ann.
Was Tom Dooley Innocent?
As children, Tom Dula and Ann Foster fell in love. However, in 1862, before they could marry, Tom signed up with the 42nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment to fight for the Confederacy.
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However, just one woman could not satisfy the young soldier. Tom soon began an affair with Ann’s cousin Laura, much to Ann’s dismay. Laura became pregnant, and the two lovers planned to run away and elope.
Ann despaired at Tom going off to war. Believing that she would never see Tom alive--or in one piece--again, Ann married an older farmer named James Melton.
The graphic nature of the murder made the trial headlines across the newly restored country. Despite being defended by former North Carolina Governor Zebulon Vance, Tom Dula was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging. He was executed May 1st, 1868.
But many are oblivious to the man behind the legend--or even that there was a man to begin with. It is the (mostly) true story of love, lust, jealousy, and the hanging of a possibly innocent man.
Tom returned from the war in 1865 and discovered that Ann Foster was now Ann Melton. Although she was married, Tom and Ann renewed their love affair.
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The Legend of Tom Dooley
Questions and half-answers surround Tom Dula and the murder of Laura Foster. The most prominent question is the role Ann Melton played, and if she was the murderer.
Dooley’s Childhood and Young Love
Not long after his death a local poet named Thomas Land wrote a poem that became the song “Tom Dooley.” It was first recorded in 1929 by a group called “Grayson and Wittier.” Gilliam Grayson was the nephew of Col. Grayson, who was Dula’s employer for a short while and figures into some of the legends as a suitor to Laura.
Another option is that the two of them conspired together to kill the pregnant Foster to avoid marriage so that they could continue their affair.