December 10

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Significant events that happened (or will happen) on December 10.

Events

  • 1905Robert D. Ballantine, owner of Edgehill in Albemarle County, commits suicide at the age of 35 in Newark, New Jersey. The Daily Progress reports he had been blackmailed by three people from Charlottesville, where had spent ten years of his life. The ashes of two letters were found in the room where he shot himself. [1]

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Deaths

  • 1824Hudson Sprouse is hung in Harrisonburg, Virginia. A resident of Albemarle County, Sprouse had been found guilty of murdering a woman named Susan Sprouse (a relative of his) in the Ragged Mountains not far from Taylor's Gap.

References

  1. Web. D. Ballantine Commits Suicide, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, December 11, 1905, retrieved December 11, 2022. Print. December 11, 1905 page 1.


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