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Post by Angela on Aug 17, 2009 17:12:57 GMT -5
Marie Lawson's boyfriend Charlie Wade Hampton never said yay or nay as to whether Marie was pregnant or not. Being in love with her enough to want to marry her I believe if she was NOT pregnant Charlie Wade would have stood up in defense of her reputation and would have said emphatically SHE WAS NOT. His silence on that is compelling evidence to me that she was. But not by him.
Maria
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Post by Angela on Aug 17, 2009 17:15:19 GMT -5
You know...I've never really thought of it that way. Was Charlie Wade Hampton still alive when the first book was released?
Doodlebug
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Post by Angela on Aug 17, 2009 17:19:09 GMT -5
I never thought of it that way either! That's a VERY good point! That researching part of your brain never stops working Maria!! it certainly does seem like he would have stood up for her and given a resounding NO she was not pregnant.
Angel71242
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Post by Angela on Aug 17, 2009 17:27:00 GMT -5
If Charlie Wade Hampton knew Marie was pregnant I wonder if she told him who the father of her baby was. Certainly he would want to know. She must have told him that it was her Father's, otherwise it would be hard to believe he would want to marry her thinking she got pregnant while with someone else. And what about her Father, I wonder if he knew that Marie told Charlie Wade Hampton, and perhaps he was afraid he would spill the beans or even got mad enough to kill his family thinking that Marie may even had told her Mother too, or God knows who else. Maria, you brought up a good point here.
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Post by Angela on Aug 17, 2009 17:29:21 GMT -5
In answer to your question Doodlebug, Charlie Wade Hampton died before the release of the first book. He died on November 19, 1972...some 15 to 18 years before the book.
Maria
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Post by Angela on Aug 17, 2009 17:32:03 GMT -5
I have no doubt that Charlie Wade Hampton knew EXACTLY who the father was. I think it speaks volumes about his character that he was still willing to get involved and get her out of there.
Michael818
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Post by Angela on Aug 17, 2009 17:50:21 GMT -5
According to Charlie Wade Hmpton's daughter he knew her father was the father of her baby and that he was going to marry her to spare her her and her family the shame that it would cause other wise. If you remember, in the weeks before the murders as well as for a long time after the murders the only person's name mentioned by anyone as the father of her baby was her father Charlie Lawson. Charlie Wade Hampton was never mentioned until many many years later when the accusations of incest became public. Why would so many relatives point the finger at one of their own if it was someone else...someone outside the family...like Charlie Wade Hampton? Why would Fannie Lawson tell her sister-in-laws that her own husband was the father of her daughter's baby if it was someone else? it would have been so much less shameful and scandalous for it to be her boyfriend than it would have been for it to be one of their very own relatives, a close one at that...her father? It looks like Fanniw would have cleared her husband's name if it hadn't been true just as Charlie Wade Hampton would have done if Marie had not been pregnant in the first place.
Maria
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Post by Angela on Aug 17, 2009 17:53:16 GMT -5
Since Charlie Wade Hampton died before the release of the first book I wonder what he would have had to say when all the stir started. Would he have continued to hold his peace? Or would he have finally spoken out about it?
Doodlebug
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Post by Angela on Aug 17, 2009 17:56:55 GMT -5
Judging by what we know about Charlie Wade Hampton's excellent character, I think he would have still kept his peace. He would not want to be the one to smer her reputation by speaking out about it publicly. I think he would rather have taken the blame than let the Lawson family be shamed.
Maria
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Post by Angela on Aug 17, 2009 18:09:28 GMT -5
Just hearing Gale talk about her father Charlie Wade Hampton you could tell he was a man of high moral character. I think he knew who the father of Marie's baby was and that he loved her so much that he wanted that he wanted to protect HER. I don't think he was wanting to protect Charlie Lawson's name, he was just going to do it for Marie. I think he was going to run away with her and give her baby HIS name. Possibly even going to another county or another state. We know that Gale said he kept that Christmas card she sent him for years after the murders until it was lost in the fire that claimed his life.That right there tells me how much he loved her.
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Post by Angela on Aug 17, 2009 18:38:56 GMT -5
I have to agree with this train of reasoning. Like you said Maria, it was only Charlie Lawson's name that ever came up as being the father of Marie's baby until many years later. If there was a question that it could have been someone else it certainly does seem like that person's name would have come up back then also.
Angel71242
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Post by Angela on Aug 17, 2009 19:17:12 GMT -5
It would make no sense that Charlie's wife and daughter would tell other relatives and friends that it was Charlie (Lawson) if ANYBODY ELSE was being named because they would rather ANYBODY ELSE be the culprit than one of their own. If Charlie Wade Hampton was ever so much as thought to be the father of Marie's baby they would have jumped on that real quick just as some of Charlie Lawson's family still blame the un-named black man from the tobacco warehouse as the person who killed Charlie Lawson and his family rather than blaming Charlie Lawson. Even the Sheriff of Stokes County did not order an investigation regarding that person. But still they blame him to this day.
Maria
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Post by angel71242 on Aug 18, 2009 8:44:08 GMT -5
You sure typed up a lot of the older posts this weekend Maria!! You go girl!!
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