On April 1, 1872, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina 1-year-old Dovey Davidson was buried alive by her father 30-year-old Nathaniel Caldwell. Nathaniel was a married man and had an unwanted baby with a 16-year-old Ann Eliza Davidson. Nathaniel would be hanged for the murder on August 23, 1872.
SOURCES:
Legal Executions in North Carolina and South Carolina page 19
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