USA Census, 1850
Name: Horace Dolly
Event Place: Stark county, Stark, Illinois
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Birthplace: New York
Birth Year (Estimated): 1822
House Number: 466
Family Number: 489
Line Number: 34
Affiliate Publication Number: M432
Affiliate Film Number: 129
GS Film number: 442917
Digital Folder Number: 004181046
Image Number: 00075
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Horace Dolly M 28 New York
Abigail Dolly F 28 New Jersey
William W Dolly M 3 Iowa
Henry H Dolly M 1 Missouri
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The Cornoyer and Moreland family diaries speak of this ideology when they relate their experiences in a wagon train coming to Oregon. On Wednesday, June 30, 1852 the train passed seven graves in one day. That day the wagon train left two additional graves of its own. The inscription on the first grave read: "Charles Botsford; murdered June 28, 1852. The murderer lies in the next grave." Several feet away, the second inscription read: "Horace Dolly, hung June 29, 1852."
These family diaries describe the mechanics of the murderer's trial and execution. The group chose two men to serve: a judge—a man respected and admired: and a sheriff—a man with enough physical strength and vigor to implement whatever punishment might be necessary. The judge and sheriff chose a twelve-man jury. The jury heard the evidence, departed a safe distance to reach their decision and returned twenty minutes later with their verdict. After Dolly was declared guilty, a crude scaffold was immediately constructed by pushing two wagons together. The immigrants looped a noose around the convicted man's neck and he was pushed off the wagon seat. He strangled to death while the audience watched.
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At Devil's Gate, Abigail Scott saw another pair of boards:" Two graves together: "Charles Botsford murdered June 28th 1852. . . "Horace Dolly hung June 29th 1852."