Your daddy ain't here to rub you with bear grease this time, boy. But I reckon he'll be here when it's time for a hanging. Epilogue Hudson Sprouse was tried and convicted of the murder of Susan Sprouse. He was hanged in Harrisonburg, Virginia, on December 10, 1824. Upon learning of her son's execution, Esther Sprouse drank lye and died the following day.
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