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MADISON — Built in 1908, one of this 2,200-resident hamlet's most storied historical buildings is once again the talk of the town, and now the world, courtesy of the Netflix series, "28 Days Haunted."
This 2008 photo shows the family grave where eight members of the Charlie Lawson family are buried near Germanton. On Christmas Day in 1929, farmer Charlie Lawson murdered his wife and six of his seven children before taking his own life.
Madison Dry Goods owners Richard and Kathy Miller have staged the rooms of the former Yelton Funeral Parlor as they might have looked in 1929 when the Lawson family members were embalmed. Their second-floor museum is open to the public and features many mementos of the era, and information and photos chronicling the crime.
In 2013, a photo of the Charlie Lawson family sits next to a portable embalming bed that pays homage to the old Knight and Suggs Funeral home that once operated in Madison Dry Goods.
Richard Miller holds a Dec. 27, 1929, Winston-Salem Journal with headlines and stories about the Charlie Lawson murders on Christmas day 1929.
Jerry Wolford, News & Record
The original elevator that served Penn Hardware Store and Yelton Funeral Parlor in historic downtown Madison is still in working order, according to Richard Miller, owner of the building’s Madison Dry Goods, Inc., and curator of the upstairs museum. Bodies of the Lawson family members were transported via this elevator on Christmas night 1929.
This 2008 photo shows the family grave where eight members of the Charlie Lawson family are buried near Germanton. On Christmas Day in 1929, farmer Charlie Lawson murdered his wife and six of his seven children before taking his own life.
Madison Dry Goods owners Richard and Kathy Miller have staged the rooms of the former Yelton Funeral Parlor as they might have looked in 1929 when the Lawson family members were embalmed. Their second-floor museum is open to the public and features many mementos of the era, and information and photos chronicling the crime.
The original elevator that served Penn Hardware Store and Yelton Funeral Parlor in historic downtown Madison is still in working order, according to Richard Miller, owner of the building’s Madison Dry Goods, Inc., and curator of the upstairs museum. Bodies of the Lawson family members were transported via this elevator on Christmas night 1929.
In 2013, a photo of the Charlie Lawson family sits next to a portable embalming bed that pays homage to the old Knight and Suggs Funeral home that once operated in Madison Dry Goods.
