Download or read book Hanging the Macon County Witch written by C. L. Gammon and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hanging the Macon County Witch is a true story. The hanging outlined in this book really took place in Lafayette, Tennessee in the late spring of 1845. This bizarre story follows a slave woman named Lize - who claims to be a witch by the way - from the time Wilson Meador purchased her, until the Macon County Sheriff hanged her. This story has several weird twists and turns, including Lize trading her own head to a local doctor for ginger cakes and hard cider. Truth is stranger than fiction and this true story is as strange as they come!