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Tom Dula was born to a poor Appalachian hill-country family in Wilkes County, North Carolina, [6] most likely the youngest of three brothers, with one younger sister, Eliza. [7] Dula grew up, attended school, and "probably played with the female Fosters" – Anne and her cousins Laura and Pauline.
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").
The Legend of Tom Dooley is a 1959 American Western film directed by Ted Post and starring Michael Landon, Jo Morrow, Jack Hogan, Richard Rust, Dee Pollock and Ken Lynch.It was based on the 90-year-old folk song "Tom Dooley", which had been inspired by the real-life case of convicted murderer Tom Dula.
For Johnson, a native of the Happy Valley region of Caldwell County — "really close to where the Tom Dula story really happened" — Madison County has a special place for Johnson.
G.B.'s uncle, James Grayson (1833–1901), was a Union Army officer who helped organize an anti-Confederate uprising in Carter County, Tennessee at the outbreak of the American Civil War and later aided in the capture of legendary North Carolina fugitive Tom Dula. [3]
Frank Noah Proffitt (June 1, 1913 – November 24, 1965) [1] was an Appalachian old time banjoist who preserved the song "Tom Dooley" in the form we know it today and was a key figure in inspiring musicians of the 1960s and 1970s to play the traditional five-string banjo.
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