This is the documented grave of a convicted criminal. Information below comes from public records.
Emeline Lucy Meaker
June 1838 โ March 30, 1883Convicted 1882
Buried at:
Vermont State Prison site (Emeline Meaker) , Windsor, VT ยท Executed at the Vermont State Prison, Windsor; body unclaimed by family, buried at or near the prison, exact plot not publicly documented (conservative pin).
Criminal History (Public Record)
Convicted of first-degree murder for the 1880 strychnine poisoning of her husband's 8-year-old half-sister, Alice Meaker, in Duxbury, Vermont. Her son Almon testified against her and had his own death sentence commuted; Emeline was hanged at the Vermont State Prison in Windsor on March 30, 1883.
Background
Emeline Lucy Meaker was the first woman legally executed by the state of Vermont.
Burlington Free Press and Times -- "A Life for a Life..." (March 31, 1883)
Daniel Allen Hearn, Legal Executions in New England: A Comprehensive Reference, 1623-1960 (McFarland, 1999), pp. 273-274
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