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Tales and Tombstones of Sunset Cemetery
March 19, 2022 @ 1:00 pm
March 19th . Kings Mountain Historical Museum. “Tales and Tombstones of Sunset Cemetery.”. 1-2 p.m. kmhmda@outlook.com . 704-739-1019. Tickets, $8 per person. Admission limited to 35 people. Purchase tickets at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/211310454257 . Authors June Hadden Hobbs and Joe DePriest discuss the lives of interesting people buried in historic Sunset Cemetery in Shelby, NC and the epitaphs and icons on their tombstones. Includes discussion about a woman who earned the reputation of being a witch, the nation’s most successful bank robber, coping with tragically high infant mortality rates, gender expectations, and more.