Execution Stereoviews

[BettyO]

I agree!

It was said that Powell's mother never recovered from the shock of her youngest son's hanging and the shame of it. Add to that the deaths of 2 other children (one son died in 1859 from meningitis, the other died of wounds at the Battle of Murfreesboro. She supposedly suffered a nervous breakdown after Lewis' death and took to her bed for two years. She never actually got over it and wore mourning for the rest of her life.