WRITES ABOUT HANGING

East Masonville, N. Y.

March 22, 1931

   Mr. Editor,

      Dear Sir:  I was quite interested in the execution of George Dennison in the last week's Oxford Times as I have heard my father tell of it as he was there when a boy of about 12 years.  He was close up where he could see and hear everything and told of the muddy roads and the awful, awful crowd that came to see him hung like a dog.

   He also had a list of verses that Dennison composed while in the Norwich jail.  I can only recall the first verse which was something like this:

   "Behold in prison you may see

A man deprived of liberty,

From Columbus hence he came,

Dennison is his wretched name."

   My father was Job Willcox who was born some where in Preston, March 21, 1821.  When a small child his parents moved to East Hill, Oxford, on the farm now known as the Phillip Moore farm where he grew to manhood.  In 1852 he emigrated to Fremont, Sullivan county, where he was a lumberman and farmer for many years.  During his later days he returned to Oxford, his old hometown, and is now sleeping in the old Willcox lot in Riverview cemetery.

Very respectfully yours,

N. E. Wilcox

NOTE:  THE SPELLING OF THE NAMES OF DENNISON (DENISON) AND WILLCOX (WILCOX) ARE AS THEY APPEAR IN THE ARTICLE.

ALSO, THE DATE OF THE LETTER AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE NOW GIVE AN APPROXIMATE DATE FOR THE ARTICLE ABOUT THE HANGING WHICH I POSTED EARLIER.