Julia and Emily

I've been meaning to share this piece of B-town history with you for almost a year. The article from which I'm drawing the facts is Cliff McCarthy and Paul Weigold, "Mysteries of Local History: The murder of Julia Town Warren," The Sentinel, January 3, 2013, page 8.

Julia and Emily were sisters sat next to each other in birth order in the Town family, a family destined for the poor house. By 1855, everyone in town knew it, including the girls themselves. They and two younger sisters had been...