4481) Did You Know Series (136): The Legend of Tom Dooley, a Confederate Forces Veteran who was hanged for the murder of a woman named Laura Foster, for a crime that he did not commit:
In 1866, a woman named Laura Foster was murdered in Wilkes County.
A man named Tom Dula, pronounced “Dooley”, was convicted and hanged for the crime.
That murder and the name Tom Dooley live on in one of the most famous folk songs ever to come out of North Carolina.
The Appalachian Trail and Tom Dooley are connected
through Appalachian folklore: the famous ballad “Tom Dooley” tells the story of
Thomas C. Dula, a Civil War veteran from North Carolina who was convicted of
murdering his lover, Laura Foster, in 1866.
The murder site and related
landmarks lie in the Appalachian region, and the trail passes near areas tied
to this legend, embedding the story into Appalachian cultural memory.
The traditional version of the story casts Tom Dula as a dashing, handsome Confederate veteran.
When Dula returns from the war, he meets Laura Foster, a young woman who was being courted by a schoolteacher from the North by the name of Bob Grayson.
Foster fell in love with Tom Dula, but so did another woman, Anne Melton. Melton was married, wealthy, beautiful, and insanely jealous.
Learning that Dula was in love with Foster, not her, Anne Melton stabbed Laura Foster to death in a jealous rage.
Tom Dula was blamed for the murder.
Dula fled, heading for Tennessee. Bob Grayson headed a posse to hunt down Tom Dula, and the posse dragged the fugitive back to Wilkes County.
Dula realised that it was Anne Melton who had committed the crime.
Tom Dula’s sense of chivalry made him unwilling to see a wealthy woman dishonoured and facing a death by hanging. So Dula confessed to a murder he did not commit in order to save Melton’s reputation.
On May 1, 1868, Tom Dula was executed by hanging on May 1, 1868, in Statesville, North Carolina, for the murder of Laura Foster
Grayson returned home to the North. Anne Melton went slowly insane from guilt, and years later as she was on her deathbed, the trees around her house filled with back cats and the air was filled with the smell of burning flesh as demons came to take her soul to Hell.
It is this version of the tale, a complicated story that ends in the death of an innocent man, that became immortalised in a folk song that circulated in North Carolina for nearly 100 years before it was made nationally famous by the Kingston Trio in 1958.
It is said that Tom Dooley wrote the lyrics of the song titled - "Hang Down your Head Tom Dooley, Good Boy you are bound to die" himself. The legend has it that he that he was signing it, strumming along on his banjo, as he sat on top of his own coffin riding in the wagon on the way to his execution.
But the actual history behind the story of Tom Dula and the murder of Laura Foster are what might be generously described as slightly different from how he song tells it.
More About This Story:
Tom Dula was born in the deeply impoverished mountains surrounding the Yadkin Valley in 1845.
Sometime when he was a fairly young teenager, he began sharing the household of James Melton and his wife Anne.
Melton was a successful cobbler, and had lost interest in his much younger wife, who happened to be about the same age as Dula.
With James Melton’s consent, Tom Dula and Anne Melton began sharing a bed in Melton’s cabin. James Melton slept alone.
Dula left the Melton household temporarily when he volunteered for the 42nd Regiment of the North Carolina Infantry.
After the war, he returned to the hills and resumed his unusual household arrangements. But then things began to get even more romantically complicated.
Pauline Foster, a distant cousin of Anne Melton, had moved into the Melton household when she was hired as a servant.
It must have been a small cabin, because soon, Dula and Pauline Foster began having an affair. In a remarkable display of open-mindedness, Anne Melton didn’t object to her lover’s new arrangement.
In fact, she joined in. So Anne Melton, Pauline Foster, and Tom Dula were all sharing a bed in James Melton’s cabin. James Melton was still sleeping alone.
As if this wasn’t complicated enough, Tom Dula soon met another Foster. This was Laura Foster, another cousin of Anne Melton, who had recently followed her cousin to the area.
Laura Foster was no stranger to the company of men, and soon she and Tom Dula were carrying on together, in an affair seemingly completely separate from Dula’s arrangements back in Melton’s cabin.
Splitting his time between Laura Foster and his menage à trois in the Melton household seemed to keep Dula happy and probably pretty tired.
What Dula didn’t know was that Pauline Foster hadn’t come to the area just to seek employment, she also came seeking treatment for syphilis. As is the way with such things, Pauline gave the disease to Tom, who then gave it to Laura and to Anne. But because of the timing of the appearance of symptoms, Tom Dula thought that it was Laura Foster, and not Pauilne Foster, who had infected him. Dula vowed revenge on Laura Foster.
Laura Foster disappeared on May 25, 1866. That morning, Foster’s father woke to discover both her and his horse missing. The horse returned the next day, but Laura did not. After several weeks of searching, a rope that had been used to tie Foster’s horse to a tree was discovered on bloodstained ground not far from where Tom Dula was living. Suspicion immediately began to fall on Dula, and he fled for Tennessee.
About the same time, Pauline Foster also visited Tennessee, and when she returned to Wilkes county a friend jokingly inquired if she had left because she had killed Laura Foster.
Pauline Foster, also seemingly in jest, replied that she and Tom Dula had killed Laura together. Pauline Foster was soon arrested and charged as an accessory to murder.
The Gravestone of Laura Fosterreads - "Laura Foster - Tom Dula Hanged for the crime"
Fearing for her life, Pauline Foster told everything she knew. Dula and Anne Melton had killed Laura Foster together. She led them to the Laura Foster’s shallow grave in the woods, and her badly decomposed corpse was exhumed. The body was only identifiable from the clothing, but the evidence of a vicious stab wound under the left breast into the heart was still there.
The police learned that Tom Dula was living in Tennessee, where he’d been working on the farm of a Colonel James Grayson. Dula learned that the authorities were on to him and fled Grayson’s farm. Grayson joined the search party, which caught up with Dula in Pandora, Tennessee. Grayson persuaded Dula to surrender, and Dula was taken back to Wilkes county to stand trial.
A movie popularises the legend:
A 1959 movie version of the legend, inspired by the popularity of the Kingston Trio song, took even further liberties with the legend, portraying Dooley's crime as being killing a Union soldier while unaware that the war had already ended.
The Court Cases:
In a surprising move which brought the case to national attention, former North Carolina Governor Zebulon Vance volunteered to represent Dula pro bono.
When the press learned the complicated details of Dula’s sex life, the newspapers went crazy and the trial became a national sensation. The Yadkin Valley region was painted as a decadent bastion of free love, and the public gobbled up as many sordid details as the papers could serve to them.
Tom Dula and Anne Melton were tried separately. Dula was convicted, Melton acquitted. Tom Dula was hanged on May 1, 1868 in Statesville. Reportedly, his last words were “You have such a nice clean rope, I ought to have washed my neck.”
Tom Dooley (Or Dula)'s gravestone. the epitaph reads - "Hanged for the murder of Laura Foster".
Anne Melton died in 1874, although the historical record is unclear as to whether she died from injuries from a carriage accident or from complications of syphilis. Although she maintained her innocence until her death, rumors that it was Melton, not Dula, who had dealt the fatal blow followed Melton to her grave.
Interestingly enough, though it was the more romantic version of the story that propelled them to fame, the members of the Kingston Trio knew of the sordid details of the story of Tom Dooley, and delighted in sharing them backstage with the various house crews they would meet on tour.
The Legend of Tom Dooley - The Songs on Tom Dooley:
"Tom Dooley" (Roud 4192) is a traditional North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a
woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina by Tom Dula (whose
name in the local dialect was pronounced "Dooley").
One of the more
famous murder ballads, a popular hit version recorded in 1958 by The Kingston
Trio reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, was in the top 10 on
the Billboard R&B chart, and appeared in the Cashbox Country Music Top 20.
The song was selected as one
of the American Songs of the Century by the Recording Industry Association of
America (RIAA), the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Inc.
Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western
songs of all time.
"Tom Dooley" fits
within the wider genre of Appalachian murder ballads. A local poet named Thomas
Land wrote a song about the tragedy, titled "Tom Dooley", shortly
after Dula was hanged.
The Controvery:
Dula's enigmatic statement on the gallows that he had not harmed Foster but still deserved his punishment led to press speculation that Melton was the actual killer and that Dula simply covered for her. (Melton, who had once expressed jealousy of Dula's purported plans to marry Foster, died either in a carting accident or by going insane a few years after the homicide, depending on the version.
Thanks to the efforts of
newspapers such as The New York Times and to the fact that former North
Carolina governor Zebulon Vance represented Dula pro bono, Dula's murder trial
and hanging were given widespread national publicity.
A local poet, Thomas C.
Land, wrote a song titled "Tom Dooley" about Dula's tragedy soon
after the hanging. Combined with the widespread publicity the trial received,
Land's song further cemented Dula's place in North Carolina legend.
Many renditions of the song
have been recorded, most notably:
In 1929, G. B. Grayson and
Henry Whitter made the first recorded version of Land's song by a group well
known at the time, for Victor.
Frank Warner, Elektra, 1952.
Warner, a folklorist, unaware of the 1929 recording, in 1940 took down the song
from Frank Proffitt and passed it to Alan Lomax who published it in Folk Song:
USA.
On March 30, 1953, the CBS
radio series Suspense broadcast a half-hour "Tom Dooley" drama
loosely based on the song, which was sung during the programme by actor Harry
Dean Stanton. While not issued as a commercial recording, transcription discs of
the broadcast eventually were digitised and circulated by old time radio
collectors.
The Folksay Trio, which
featured Erik Darling, Bob Carey and Roger Sprung, issued the first post-1950
version of the song for American Folksay-Ballads and Dances, Vol. 2 on the
Stinson label in 1953. Their version was noteworthy for including a pause in the
line "Hang down your head Tom...Dooley". The group reformed in 1956
as The Tarriers, featuring Darling, Carey and Alan Arkin, and released another
version of "Tom Dooley" for The Tarriers on the Glory label in 1957.
The Kingston Trio recorded
the most popular version of the song in 1958 for Capitol. This recording sold
in excess of six million copies, topping the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, and
is often credited with starting the "folk music boom" of the late
1950s and 1960s.
It only had three verses (and the chorus four
times). This recording of the song was inducted into the National Recording
Registry of the Library of Congress and honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame
Award. The Grammy Foundation named it one of the Songs of the Century.
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
recorded an eight-minute version on their 2012 album Americana, on which they
retitled the song to the proper spelling "Tom Dula".
The French group Les
Compagnons de la Chanson recorded a French version titled "Tom Dooley
(Fais ta priere)", which reached No. 1 on the Belgian chart and No. 4 on
the French chart in 1959.
Other artists who have
recorded versions of the song include Paul Clayton, Line Renaud, Bing Crosby,
Jack Narz, Steve Earle the Grateful Dead, Arthur "Guitar Boogie"
Smith, and Doc Watson. Lonnie Donegan also recorded the song in the UK. It spent
14 weeks in the British charts from November 1958, reaching its highest ranking
at number 3 for 5 weeks.
Narration by Steve Gilly & Rod Mullins:
Their version blends storytelling and song, giving listeners both the historical background and the musical tradition.
They emphasise Appalachian culture, showing how oral storytelling and balladry kept the tale alive for generations.
Instead of just singing, they narrate the events leading up to the murder, trial, and execution, making the ballad feel like a living piece of history.
Why the Legend of Tom Dooley Endures:
The Tom Dooley ballad is less about the crime itself and more about how communities turn tragedy into folklore. It’s a cautionary tale, a love story gone wrong, and a reminder of how music preserves memory.
The Kingston Trio recording of the Ballad of Tom Dooley reached #1 on the Billboard R&B charts, even higher than its near-top placement on Billboard’s Country charts.
Tom Dooley: Song by The Kingston Trio:
"Throughout history There have been many songs
written about the eternal triangle:
This next one tells the
story of a Mr. Grayson, A beautiful woman, And a condemned man name Tom
Dooley".
The Song:
When the sun rises tomorrow
Tom Dooley must hang
Hang down your head, Tom
Dooley
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head, Tom
Dooley
Poor boy, you're bound to
die
I met her on the mountain
There I took her life
Met her on the mountain
Stabbed her with my knife
Hang down your head, Tom
Dooley
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head, Tom
Dooley
Poor boy, you're bound to
die
This time tomorrow
Reckon where I'll be
Hadn't ha' been for Greyson
I'd been in Tennessee
Well now boy
Hang down your head and cry
(Tom Dooley)
Hang down your head and cry
(Poor boy)
Well a, hang down your head
and cry (Tom Dooley)
Poor boy, you're bound to
die
Hang down your head and cry
(Tom Dooley)
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head and cry
(Tom Dooley)
Poor boy, you're bound to
die
This time tomorrow
Reckon where I'll be
Down in some lonesome valley
Hanging from a white oak
tree
Hang down your head, Tom
Dooley
Hang down your head and cry
Hang Down your head, Tom
Dooley
Poor boy, you're bound to
die
Well now boy
Hang down your head, Tom
Dooley
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head, Tom
Dooley
Poor boy, you're bound to
die
Poor boy, you're bound to
die
Poor boy, you're bound to
die
Poor boy, you're bound to
Die
The Legend of Tom Dooley:
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5) Navaho Tribe, Code Talker, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of Woeld War II and American History: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
6) Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate (Sioux) Tribe, Code Talker, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War II and American History: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
7) Choctaw Nation Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War I and World War II and American History: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
8) Hopi Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War II and American History: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
9) Seminole Nation Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War II and American History: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
10) Tonto Apache Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World war I and American History: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
11) Ho Chunk Nation Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World war II and American History: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
12) Pawnee Nation Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War I and World War II and American History: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
13) Onieda Nation Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War II and American History: Date/Year of Metal issue: 2024
14) Standing Rock Sioux Nation Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War I and World War II and American History: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
15) Meskwaki Nation Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War I and World War II and American history: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
16) Osage Nation Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War I and World War II and American history: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
17) The Fort Peck Assiniobione and Sioux Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War II and American history: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
18) The Tlingit Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War II and American history: Date/Yesar of Medal issue: 2024
19) The Kiowa Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War II and American History: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
20) The Muscogee Creek Nation Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War II and American History: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
21) The Pueblo of Acoma Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal Commemorates an important piece of World War II and American History: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
22) The Santee Sioux Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War I and World War II and American history: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
23) The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War I and World War II and American history: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
24) The Crow Nation Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War II and American history: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
25) The White Mountain Apache Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War II and American history: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
26) The Pueblo of Laguna Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War II and American history: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
27) The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War II ans American history: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
28) The Yankton Sioux Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War I and American history: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
29) The Menominee Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War I and World War II and American history: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
30) The Rosebud Sioux Tribe, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War II and American history: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
The CSS Hunley which was the first Submarine to sink a Union Ship:
1) The CSS Hunley made history on 17.02.1864, when it sank the Slppo Housatonic with its torpedo, but the submarine dod not survive the attack: 2) Recovery of the CSS Hunley and its wreckage; 3) The story of George Dixon the Sobmarine Commander and his lucky $20 Gold Copin presented to him by his lover
Gold Eagle Coins:
1) The Majestic Gold Eagle Proof Coins Return for 2025, United states of america (USA): A $10 (Ten Dollars) Gold Proof Coin minted by the West Point Mint, Mint Mark "W": Date/Year of Coin issue: 2025
Custer's Last Stand:
1) Custer's Last Stand or The Battle of Little Big Horn 2-pc Tribute Set, United states of SAmerica (USA): Year of Coins issue: 1829, 1865
2) "Sitting Bull", Legendary Warriors, (United States of America), Niue Island: A $5 (Five Dollars) 2 oz Silver Antique Finish Gold Plated Coin: T & S Coins and Pinehurst Coins: Date/Year of Coin issue: 2025
The Story of Daniel Boone - Frontiersman:
1) The Story of Daniel Boone, Frontiersman, (United States of America - USA), Republique Du Cameroon (Republic of Cameroon): 250th Anniversary of Daniel Boone's first attempt at leading settlers along the Wilderness Trail through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky in 1773: A 2000 Francs CFA 1-Oz Silver Colourised BU Coin: Date/Year of Coin issue: 2023
Coin Invest Trust (CIT) Wild West Coin Series:
1) Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Billy the Kid - Legends of the Wild West!, Cook Islands: 250 Dollars (Gold) and 20 and 5 Dollars (Silver) Coins minted by B.H. Mayer's Kunstprageanstalt (GmbH) at its facilities in Munich by commission of Coin Invest Trust (CIT) on behalf of the Treasury of the Cook Islands: Year of Coin issue: 2024
Links to posts on the USA:
First Amendment to the United States Constitution: Preample to the declaration of Independence:
Custer's Last Stand:
79) Custer's Last Stand or The Battle of Little Big Horn 2-pc Tribute Set, United States of America (USA): Year of Coins issue: 1829, 1865
The Introduction of the Lincoln Cent in 1909:
80) Did you Know Series (101): The Introduction of the Lincoln Cent in 1909
Was Stonehenge built by Aliens:
81) 2025 Mesa Grande Sovereign Native American Nation: $1 1-oz Silver Coin Built By Aliens - Stonehenge Proof: Coin released by the republic of Ghana: Date/Year of Coin release: 2025
82) "The Gaspee Affair", Mesa Grande Sovereign Native American Nation, United States of americsa (USA): 250th Anniversary of the Gaspee Affair (1772-2022): A $1 (One Dollar) Silver Coin commemorates one of the earliest Rebellions in the US War of Independence: Date/Year of Coin issue: 2022
83) Cardinal Robert Prevost is Pope Leo XIV, the 267th Pope, United States of America (USA): A 1-oz Silver Election of Pope Leo XIV Round: Date/Year of Round issue: 08.05.2025
Super heroes Coin Series:
84) "Superman", United States of America (USA): Superhero Coins and Medals Series": The first $50 Gold Coin in the Series will feature Superman: Date/Year of Coin issue: 2025
85) "George Washington crossing the Delaware," Republic of Samoa: "The Commanders Coin Series": 5 Dollar Silver and 20 & 5 Dollars Gold Coins depict George Washington - General and twice President of the USA (in 1789 and 1782): Year of Coins issue: 2026
The CSS Hunley which was the first Submarine to sink a Union Ship:
1) The CSS Hunley made history on 17.02.1864, when it sank the Slppo Housatonic with its torpedo, but the submarine dod not survive the attack: 2) Recovery of the CSS Hunley and its wreckage; 3) The story of George Dixon the Sobmarine Commander and his lucky $20 Gold Copin presented to him by his lover
To view a few posts on previous COTY and Coin Constellation (Russia) winners, please visit the following links:
Posts on Coins/Rounds from the Intaglio Mint, Denver Colorado (a privately owned Mint):
Links to some more posts on the Chinese Lunar calendar/Zodiac signs on this Blog:
New Year Lucky Coin Releases:
Old West Coin Series:
