Record #:

5199

Author(s):

Boyd, Sandra

Abstract:

Born in Wilkes County, Tom Dula was a young man who enjoyed dating the ladies. Accused of murdering Laura Foster, he fled Tennessee. Captured, he was returned to North Carolina, tried, and hanged. Boyd discusses these events and the controversy surrounding them.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 40 Issue 2, Spring 2001, p32-34

Subject(s):

Folklore--Wilkes County; Dula, Tom C. (Tom Dooley), 1845-1868; Wilkes County--History

Record #:

1367

Author(s):

Mitchell, Tucker

Abstract:

Folklore, and some good-natured controversy, continue to surround the 1866 Tom Dula murder case.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 61 Issue 8, Jan 1994, p25-27, il

Subject(s):

Folklore--Wilkes County; Dula, Tom C. (Tom Dooley), 1845-1868; Wilkes County--History

Record #:

35698

Author(s):

Maddox, Marie

Abstract:

NC’s plays about the Lost Colony of Roanoke, Blackbeard, Tom Dooley, Daniel Boone, and Andrew Jackson may come as no surprise. This state was a home for the famous pirate and Elizabethan era English settlers, the subject of the popular song, battle site for this Revolutionary War freedom fighter, and settlement that included Jackson’s parents. Plays about NC’s perhaps lesser known ways of involvement in the Revolutionary War included Fight for Freedom, about the first Declaration of Independence document; The Liberty Cart, about the Battle of Moore’s Creek. As for contributions from religious groups, there was Sound of Peace, about a Quaker settlement in Snow Camp. From this Day Forward traced the life of the Walden family, whose descendants and bakeries still exist in Valdese.

Source:

Tar Heel (NoCar F 251 T37x), Vol. 7 Issue 3, May/June 1979, p18-21

Subject(s):

Blackbeard, d. 1718; The Lost Colony (Play); Dula, Tom C. (Tom Dooley), 1845-1868; Daniel Boone, 1734-1820; Waxhaw--History; Halifax County--History; Snow Camp; Waldensian Bakeries, Inc. (Valdese); Moores Creek Bridge, Battle of, N.C., 1776; Quakers

Record #:

10641

Author(s):

West, John Foster

Abstract:

John Foster West goes behind the folklore to discover the recorded facts in the murder trial of Tom Dula. Dula, who was hanged for the murder of Laura Foster in 1868, is the subject of an enduring ballad and something of a folk hero in western North Carolina. In 1958, the Kingston Trio released a version of the folk ballad that was the number one song in the country. According to West, although Dula's case went to the state Supreme Court twice and the records from those trials are preserved by the State Department of Archives and History, no writer before him had ever bothered to examine the Dula records in detail. Through examination of court records and Wilkes County census records, West recreates the events that occurred in Ferguson, NC and fills out the missing details surrounding the case, including the unknown family members of the victim and the accused. West's book is entitled THE BALLAD OF TOM DULA; THE DOCUMENTED STORY BEHIND THE MURDER OF LAURA FOSTER AND THE TRIALS AND EXECUTION OF TOM DULA.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 38 Issue 16, Jan 1971, p16-18, 32, il, por, map

Subject(s):

Dula, Tom C. (Tom Dooley), 1845-1868