297. Gladys Kincaid


297

Gladys Kincaid

This ballad has two motives — a rape and a lynching — in common
with 'Emma Hartsell.' Henry, in FSSA 57, printed an entirely
different ballad on the same occurrence (names of victim and mur-
derer being the same), obtained from Avery county, N. C, in 1932.
His ballad ends :

The final place they found this shine
Was down at Linville Falls.

From Miss Effie Tucker ; without date and address.

1 Come all of you good people
And listen if you will

Of the fate of Gladys Kincaid,
Who worked in the hosiery mill.

2 Returning from her labor,
Spent with the toil of day,
All unaware of danger
That stalked along her way.

3 In ambush lay the negro ;
His lust began to swell.
He did this awful deed.
Too horrible to tell.

4 He was declared an outlaw.
Him men began to seek ;
But evaded his pursuers
For something over a week.

5 He finally was discovered
In a lonely hidden spot,

And when he tried to flee away
He was brought down with a shot.

6 They brought him to the courthouse
And placed where all could see,
The body of Broadus Miller.

For an arch friend [sic] was he.

 

688 NORTH CAROLINA FOLKLORE

7 Go tell it to the country,
To both the black and white,
That old Burke County
Shall e'er defend the right.