Post by michael818 on Jan 15, 2018 10:56:16 GMT -4
Apr 7, 2012 0:26:17 GMT -4 Dillon Pomeroy said:
The Lawson murders and Payne road have been confused for a long time, mostly because of rumors and locations. Mostly everyone around the area new about the Lawson murders. People who went down Payne Road experienced an eerie feeling just being around there. Payne Road and the Lawson murders got mixed when the original Lawson cabin was tore down, because not to long after, a wooden bridge was built on Payne Road. When you drive a car made before 1990 on the bridge and turn your car off, it doesn't start back up. Because of the location and time similarities, it was said that the bridge was built using the wood from the Lawson cabin. People also knew that this wasn't true so they made legit rumors that the broke-in houses and the tobacco barns/fields were used for slavery and slaves were killed all down this road. They probably said this because there would be no record that old, even if it was true. This is probably why there is no records of these "murders". There are more stories about family murders and suicides on Payne Road that are most likely runoffs from the Lawson family murders. I think the reason for the eerie feeling on Payne Road is because it is a curvy back road with only broke-in houses, tobacco barns, and graveyards, it is also in the woods. The only ghost story I can't find an explanation for is the one about a wreck. They day that a man was flying down the road in a 1940's model Ford truck with round headlights, when he passed the largest turn he hit a tree and burned to death in the burning truck. The Lawson graves are situated off of Brook Cove Road, a road forking off NC hwy 8, as soon as you turn right onto Brook Cove Road there is a gravel road heading into the woods, back to the Lawson graves.
I am a distant cousin of the Lawson family. Here is my theory:
Charles Davis Lawson murdered his family on Christmas day 1929. I think he molested his daughter and got her pregnant due to this picture they took shortly before the deaths, he then went on with his life. Shortly after, Charlie's son started bucking up to him, Charlie then accepted to work more farmland to pay for his family to live. All of this stress began getting harder and harder on Charlie, so he hit himself in the head with an ax. Once the baby began getting noticeable the daughter didn't want to risk getting caught, so she was planning to tell the family on Christmas day. On Christmas, everyone had came over for supper and target practice. Charlie was planning to kill his whole family if the daughter revealed her secret, but the eldest son was catching on to his plan, so he pretended to run out of bullets so he could go "buy more", but no store is open on Christmas day, obviously, so I think he knew Charlie wasn't going to murder the family if he was there to buck up to him so he went, hid, and waited until he thought Charlie was about to do kill them, then came and killed his father, he then realized that Charlie had already killed the family, so he writes 2 suicide notes and sits them and the gun used to kill him beside him. The book says that Charlie used a shotgun to shoot himself in the chest, but imagine how hard it would be to do so.
That was only my theory, there are no 100% accurate theories, so just know that mine may/ may not be true, but you have to admit, it's clever
Stores WERE open Christmas Day back then. Wasn't commercialized like it s today. The injur was with a mattock, and Dr. Helsabeck said repeatedly that it was a superficial wound to the scalp only. He received aFAR mre serious head woud earlier, in November, 1918, when Jesse McNeal stabbed him in the famous fight. One stab woud was a deep penetrating wound behind te right ear, and Charlie almost died.