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Another story, “ Naomi Wise, or the Victim ”, with an appended ballad purporting to be the original song composed about Naomi Wise ’ s murder, was first published in the January and February editions of the 1851 Evergreen newspaper.

It was reprinted on April 29, 1874 in the Greensboro Patriot and several times thereafter in pamphlet form.

In 1944 and again in 1962 the Rotary Club of Randleman, North Carolina published this same story along with the History of Randleman.

It is a fabrication based on the death of Naomi Wise but accepted as a true account for many years by most people who read it including Braxton Craven ’ s biographer, Jerome Dowd.