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The last Hanging in Beaufort County

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39263
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The local hangings include: Aaron Bonner, 1875; N. P. Overton and Noah Taylor, 1877; Benjamin Whitfield, 1879. The execution of Hatton Perry for rape in May 1898 was the first legal execution in Beaufort County since the Civil War.
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