She Named the Minister… Then They Found Her Hanging
A pregnant mill girl. A married Methodist minister. A note that pointed straight at him. On a freezing December morning in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell was found hanging from a haystack pole in Tiverton, Rhode Island. The first verdict was suicide. The second accused Reverend Ephraim K. Avery of murder.
What followed was one of the most sensational trials of the 19th century—sex, scandal, class warfare, and a verdict that still divides people nearly 200 years later.
Host Alexander Lawson digs into the full story of the Cornell-Avery case: the camp-meeting encounter, the oil of tansy, the…
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