Gombert, Johann. Ein neues Trauer-Lied : enthaltend die Geschichte der Susanna Cox die in Reading, wegen Ermordung ihres Kindes hingerichtet wurde.

Gombert, Johann.

Ein neues Trauer-Lied : enthaltend die Geschichte der Susanna Cox die in Reading, wegen Ermordung ihres Kindes hingerichtet wurde.

[Pennsylvania? : s.n., ca. 1870?]

Verse in thirty-two unnumbered stanzas.

"Melodie: Ihr jungen Helden aufgewacht."

Attributed to Johann Gombert, a Bern Township schoolmaster who was present at the execution of Susanna Cox on June 10, 1809, in Reading, Pa., for the murder of her newborn child. Several broadside editions of the poem were issued soon after the event. Cf. Homan, Wayne E. "The sorrow song of Susanna Cox," in Pennsylvania folklife (Summer 1971), p. 14-16.

Printed in two columns divided by a single rule; printed area, including ruled border, measures 25.3 x 13.1 cm.

Cox, Susanna, d. 1809,

Infanticide -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.

Infanticide -- Poetry.

Murder -- Poetry.

Executions and executioners -- Poetry.

Crime -- Poetry.

German American poetry.

Broadside poems. rbgenr

Broadsides. rbgenr

Poems -- 1870. rbgenr

Women.

PA. 1870.

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