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Frankie Silver resources a webliography
compiled by Lana A. Whited, Ph.D. |
Images from
Kona |
These
photographs were taken by Lana Whited during an August 2001 visit
to the Kona community. The photographer is very grateful to Carole
Boggess of Mars Hill College who arranged the visit and served as
a chaperone and to Mrs. Ruth Silver, a resident of Kona, who accompanied
us on our visit to the Kona Baptist Church and churchyard. Mrs. Silver
is the mother of Wayne Silver, who died in June 2001 and was, for
many years, the keeper of the Frankie Silver legend by virtue of his
collection of documents and other artifacts at Kona Baptist Church.
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grave(s) of Charlie Silver at Kona Baptist Church, Kona, North Carolina.
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Sign
marking the Kona Baptist Church cemetary and identifying it as the
burial place of George Silver, a Revolutionary War veteran. George
or Georg Silver is said by the Silver Genealogy web sites to have
been the name of the first Silver ancestor to arrive in North America
from Germany. |
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The
gravestone of Frankie Silver, located on a farm just west of Morganton,
North Carolina. Directions to the site can be found on the Frankie
Stewart Silver Memorial Page. The headstone contains several errors,
including the misspelling of her last name and the identification
of Silver as the "only woman every hanged in Burke County."
The headstone was provided in 1952 by Beatrice Cobb, editor of the
Morganton newspaper. |
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A
hand-copied "Ballad of Frankie Silver" on display in the
old Kona Baptist Church near Bakersfield, North Carolina. |
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| The
old Kona Baptist Church, location of many documents and other artifacts
related to the Frankie Silver legend, mostly collected by Wayne Silver.
This view is from the new Kona Baptist Church cemetary across the
road. |
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Lana
Whited during her August 2001 visit to Kona. |
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