Visiting The Lawson Family Murders Gravesites / Museum + Abandoned Grogans Riverfront Motel

0:00 Intro
1:53 Lawson Family Gravesite
22:00 Madison Drygoods
25:54 Lawson Family Murders Museum
48:59 Grogans Riverfront Motel
58:14 Outro

[@jamesnifong953]

My friend Jimmy Hazelwood is buried there he was part of the Lawson family that's how I learned of bloody christmas

[@linneahite7493]

😢

[@williamwhitlow2491]

Liar

[@lindaburnette8200]

Whose idea was it to bury Charlie the family murderer with the family he killed? Stupid idea

[@NerdEpix]

My thoughts as well. No idea, but it was a dumb one.

[@leeanneshaw1899]

Could be due to cost

[@elizabethgracia6411]

I have never heard of this case. Thank you for telling us about it. I feel so bad for the kids. May they all RIP 🙏🏻🕊️💔🕯️

[@NerdEpix]

Very sad indeed. Thanks for watching! 🙏

[@jenniferk.7023]

I've spoken to a few of the Lawson family members. There's a lot of nonsense people are spreading about the murders. Even in that book that was written. The owners of the grave site are not usually happy about visitors, so anyone thinking about going, you need to either have to have family buried there, or get permission to be there. They are serious. Do not try to go the property where the murders happened, because the property owner there will not be happy. There is literally nothing there left from 1929 left anyway.

[@judyroberds9622]

Oh gee!

[@bethrogers5553]

Very good video. I enjoyed it very much. Thank you.

[@kathyjewell6715]

I wonder if the baby actually belongs to him and his daughter. That would make sense about the way he killed the baby.

[@NerdEpix]

Mary Lou didn’t belong to Charlie and Marie. I know Fanny gave birth to her. It is speculated that Charlie impregnated his daughter and that she was showing signs of pregnancy during the last days of her life. I’m sure there are things that no one really knows about that family.

[@kathyjewell6715]

@@NerdEpix I was curious if the daughter was pregnant when he killed her. But if he did this to one maybe another. But it was a family secret thing to pretend babies belonged to the mother of the family when born from under age or unmarried daughters.

[@codymitchell9673]

no one will ever know if she was actually pregnant, and if she was with his kid. if you hear otherwise then think about this, how would they know ? this happened 95 years ago and they do not know factual.

[@beanstaters316]

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[@NerdEpix]

Thank you so much for the comment and subscribing. Glad to have you here and hope you enjoy.

[@beanstaters316]

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[@fugitiverecoveryagent2972]

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[@NerdEpix]

Thank you for subscribing! Glad to have you here! 🙏

[@fugitiverecoveryagent2972]

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[@heisenberg8346]

I lived a couple hundred yards from there from 1997-2002 the Lawson house was just through the woods to the right of the headstone about 100 yards , if you go out that gravel road to leave and you'll see an old barn when you get to Brook cove turn left and go all the way down the hill and you'll see some rock and stone columns on your left at Watts roads is private property but part of the old Lawson house there's a covered bridge up there and it has part of the old Lawson house as part of the covered bridge

[@NerdEpix]

I’ll have to go back out that way to see! Thanks 🙏

[@DawnMarie-pi9fv]

Glad I found your channel!

[@NerdEpix]

@@DawnMarie-pi9fv Glad you are here! Hope you enjoy!

[@charlesbrown1392]

If you go back and see the photos of the cemetery. There's a photo of a row of ground headstones. The large headstone probably came later?

[@jamesnifong953]

I can also tell you that when you turn off no 8 on to brook cove Rd and left on on gravel drive way for cemetery you can see a tobacco barn that belonged to Charles Lawson in that area is where the Lawson house was

[@NerdEpix]

Dang! No kidding! Wow, thanks for that info. May have to drive back out there to see it.

[@bethrogers5553]

The other part of the upstairs is an antique shop. They sell secondhand, vintage items.

[@NerdEpix]

I love it there

[@kerrydennison7947]

And yes they survived and son he is buried right behind the family plot he died in an automobile accident many years afterwards. From what I was told by family from that area that the Lawson's owned a very large burial plot already paid for so that is why they were all buried together.

[@NerdEpix]

Makes sense. Just don’t think Charlie should have been placed with his “family”. Thank you for the comment!

[@lindaburnette8200]

He'll answere to God for his actions

[@barbarabazin9570]

I have heard this story before,but wouldn't they have done autopsy to the daughter after the murders and they could see if she was pregnant. Maybe she was pregnant from her boyfriend. I read she had a boyfriend or they did the autopsy and they found she was pregnant but they kept it quite many possibilities we will never know.

[@NerdEpix]

The thing is, Marie told her mother about her father molesting her way before the murders happened. It is possible that her bf could have, but who knows.

[@anniestroupe808]

Nevermind you answered my question lol

[@margiepenland6297]

That is where I live I have been to there old house and farm I grow up near it

[@leeanneshaw1899]

Could have been that the 4 month old was actually by his daughter and that would explain him beating it to death. It was personal

[@NerdEpix]

Quite possibly

[@lindaburnette8200]

He knew he'd lose his freedom

[@NerdEpix]

Very true

[@heisenberg8346]

That wall means wall monument of Winston Salem

[@anniestroupe808]

Did the surviving son get buried there as well when he passed?

[@NerdEpix]

Yes, right behind the family plot.

[@lisabutler51]

Need to go to olivet cemetery in texico new mexico because another family was killed by husband. Hassell family

[@Sunshine-fx9op]

Does anyone think it's sus that the lone survivor was in town buying more shotgun shells?

[@davidnelson95]

I read the book years ago

[@NerdEpix]

I only heard about this a few years ago and wanted to try and do a detailed video of it. I know I probably missed some things, mis-pronounced some names, or got some detailed information wrong. Was trying to remember as much info as possible while doing the video. Thanks so much for the comment!

[@silverlaptop2022]

🌹🙏🌹

[@TinaSmith-eb5lx]

This happened on Christmas

[@ACrimeTo]

On Christmas 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@auraterry3548]

😮😢

[@jenstuff82]

Marie's (the teenage daughter) name is pronounced "Muh-ree" ....Mary was the infant.

[@NerdEpix]

Didn’t know exactly how to pronounce it

[@jamesnifong953]

It was stated to me he sent James on an errand to get shot gun shells

[@NerdEpix]

Interesting!

[@jenstuff82]

Dude!! That cool old stone building along the river there, I have always wondered about!!! Had no idea that was it's original purpose 😮 wwttthhh??? 😂😂😂 Glad to see it's being renovated and repurposed for something better than that! I'm sure plenty in the area (especially women) didn't care for that place back then.

[@kimberleydeleon9000]

Question: If you’re saying James didn’t die that day and is buried behind, then who is the James on the big stone dated Born: Apr 5 1925 and died the very same day as all the others Dec 25 1929?? The other James behind, says born 1911. Something isn’t making sense…..who’s James on the big stone? He didn’t have 2 boys named James.

[@NerdEpix]

James was the other son of Charles and Fannie. There is a James Lawson and a James Arthur Lawson. He went by Arthur and he died in a car accident many years after the murders.

[@kimberleydeleon9000]

@@NerdEpix thank you for answering that! I watched a couple of you videos lastnight but this one was my fave! I love a good real life story-good or bad ya know? Great job!

[@margiepenland6297]

There's a bed and breakfast where there house use to be

[@NerdEpix]

May have to check that out!

[@DawnMarie-pi9fv]

Who is the James that died 12/25/29?

[@NerdEpix]

He would be the middle child of the boys. James William Lawson. He was 4 at the time of the murders.

[@wandaboring6066]

What is the name of the book ?

[@NerdEpix]

I think it’s called “White Christmas: Bloody Christmas”.

[@lindaburnette8200]

Might be cause he had so many kids

[@NerdEpix]

Possibly

[@lisawright6880]

Why is their two James their is a James on the family plot reads he was born in 1925 died the same day as the rest of the family Christmas of 1929

[@NerdEpix]

Yes, there were two James’. The eldest was named James “Arthur” Lawson. He passed in a car accident in his 30’s many years after the murders.

[@WinnerWinnerChickenDinner009]

What is the son actually did it ?

[@eunicelutfi8565]

I think you have the dates wrong.

[@NerdEpix]

Possibly. There seemed to be conflicting dates when I was searching this online.

[@margiepenland6297]

Arthur was the oldest son Arthur

[@NerdEpix]

Yeah there was a James Lawson and then the oldest is named James Arthur Lawson

[@heisenberg8346]

It's Not marry it's Marie !!

[@NerdEpix]

Yeah I realized after editing the video that I pronounced her name wrong. 🤦‍♂️

[@leeatterberry1239]

Well what else you going to do when you get your own daughter pregnant man?

[@NerdEpix]

The dude was a coward imo

[@codymitchell9673]

no evidence of a pregnancy

[@coolmoodee]

Bro, you ramble on to much and go off topic. Just tell the damn story and be done with it .

[@NerdEpix]

Thank you for the honest feedback. Can only improve from here.