Aug 2, 2015
Did Samuel Pittard of Ashton Murder His Wife?
The Strange Case of the Ashton's Pittard's
Sequel to The invasion of the Body Snatchers of Lanark County
“In 1861 the Carleton Place Herald reported that Mrs. Samuel Pittard of Ashton was to be exhumed as her husband was suspected of foul play due to idle gossip. After poor Jane, age 34, was dug up it was concluded she had died of natural causes. This had been the second body dug up in two weeks in the same cemetery due to the tongues of…
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