Come on Marian, don't leave us hanging in thin air. Please tell us the story. Sara > Speaking of southern women and their lives, has anyone heard the >"legend" of Frankie (Stewart) Silver, of Burke County? Not really a legend, >because it was true. But it is so dramatic it sounds like a tall story. > > Excuse the expression, but she was sort of the Lorena Bobbitt of >pre-1850 North Carolina. I wonder what really happened. There's a couple >of books about her, I hear tell one of them is pretty accurate. > >Marian