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- Rebecca Ann Littleton Hawkins (nee Butts) was an American pioneer woman. After enduring twenty years of beatings by her husband, Williamson Hawkins, she hired her neighbor Henry Garster in 1838 to kill him. The murder led to Garster’s hanging, the first in Jackson County, Missouri, in 1839. Rebecca had previously attempted and failed to murder Williamson herself with rat poison, for which she was tried and sentenced to five years in the Missouri State Penitentiary. The Jackson County community petitioned the governor for her pardon, which he granted shortly before Rebecca’s sentence began. The pardon saved her from the fate of being the first woman to be imprisoned in the Missouri State Penitentiary. (en)
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- Born between 1797-1800 in Putnam County, Georgia
Died sometime after 1860 in California, probably San Joaquin County where she was last known to live.
In 1838, while living in Jackson County, Missouri, she contracted her neighbor Henry Garster to murder her husband after unsuccessfully attempting to murder him by poisoning herself. Garster was hung for his crime, the first hanging in Jackson County, Missouri. Rebecca was found innocent of murder, convicted of poisoning, but pardoned before serving her five year sentence. (en)
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- Rebecca Ann Littleton Hawkins (nee Butts) was an American pioneer woman. After enduring twenty years of beatings by her husband, Williamson Hawkins, she hired her neighbor Henry Garster in 1838 to kill him. The murder led to Garster’s hanging, the first in Jackson County, Missouri, in 1839. Rebecca had previously attempted and failed to murder Williamson herself with rat poison, for which she was tried and sentenced to five years in the Missouri State Penitentiary. The Jackson County community petitioned the governor for her pardon, which he granted shortly before Rebecca’s sentence began. The pardon saved her from the fate of being the first woman to be imprisoned in the Missouri State Penitentiary. (en)
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