South Cemetery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

South cemetery in portsmouth, new hampshire is really a collection of many smaller graveyards. In the 17 hundreds, south cemetery served double duty as both a graveyard and sight of several public executions. The early eighteenth century was a very different era from our own - with laws that might seem barbaric or cruel by to day's standards. Ruth blay was 25 and split her time between teaching in the nearby towns and working as a seamstress. She was single and poor, but did her best to hide the pregnancy for as long as she could. But what ruth didn't know was that some of her local students had watched her. They saw a crime, and so they reported it