Gombert, Johann. Trauerlied, : enthaltend die Geschichte der Susanna Cox, die in Reading wegen Ermordung ihres Kindes hingerichtet wurde.

Gombert, Johann.

Trauerlied, : enthaltend die Geschichte der Susanna Cox, die in Reading wegen Ermordung ihres Kindes hingerichtet wurde.

[Pennsylvania? :s.n., ca. 1855]

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.

Missing last 2 stanzas of poem.

Cox, Susanna, d. 1809,

Infanticide -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.

Infanticide -- Poetry.

Murder -- Poetry.

Crime -- Poetry.

Executions and executioners -- Poetry.

German American poetry.

Clippings. rbgenr

Poems -- 1855. rbgenr

Women.

PA. 1855. Imprint

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