A Courtroom Tragedy

The Avery family is very well-known in western North Carolina, starting in the late 1700s with Waightstill Avery, a lawyer and the very first attorney general in the state. His grandson, William Waightstill Avery, was, just like his grandfather, a North Carolina lawyer and politician. What happened between him and another man in a courtroom in 1851 is the subject of our story today. You can find the audio version of the Stories podcast on many podcast apps, including Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, RadioPublic, TuneIn and IHeart Radio. We are also on YouTube; you can subscribe by clicking the "Subscribe" button down below. Please give us a like, too, if you don't mind. Til next we meet, so long everybody...