This podcast series was researched using dozens of archival sources, newspaper accounts, and legal documents from 1927–1961. Below is a complete list of referenced materials used in all four chapters of Southern Mysteries Serial: Mystery on Montford Avenue.
Saintsing, Katie, “Photo Essay: Montford Neighborhood, Asheville”, Our State, https://www.ourstate.com/photo-essay-montford-neighborhood-asheville
“Montford: The Newsletter of Asheville’s Most Historic Neighborhood,” June/July 2022, https://montford.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Mont_Jun_Jul_22_v2.pdf
“Montford Area Historic District,” National Register of Historic Places, https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/BN0022.pdf
“Mrs. Burgess Is Found Dead From Wound” Asheville Citizen-Times, January 21, 1926 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942612293/
“A. S. Cooper, 71, Retired Civil Engineer Dies” The Asheville Times, April 8, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942603085
“Engineer to be Interred Today” The Asheville Citizen, April 9, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/198533669/
Widow, 61, Is Strangely Slain”, The Asheville Times, May 10, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942611279/
“Cooper Death Was Suicide Police Think”, The Asheville Times, May 11, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/198078014
“Missing Diamonds Added to Mystery”, The Valdosta Times, May 13, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/889412833
“Robbery The Motive for Woman’s Murder”, Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, May 13, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/743858118
“Cooper Body to Be Exhumed,” The Asheville Citizen, May 13, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/198082152
“Police Discover Missing Diamond Rings,” Niagara Falls Gazette, May 13, 1927, https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/
“Mrs. Cooper Was Murdered”, The Asheville Times, May 13, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942612268
“Arrest for Slaying of Mrs. Cooper Looked For At Any Time”, Greensboro Daily News, May 14, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/937101043
“Mrs. Montague’s Resident Here For Six Years” The Asheville Citizen, May 14, 1927, https://www.newspapers.com/image/942612662
“Police Center Investigation of Murder on Mrs. Montague”, The Sunday Citizen, May 15, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/198085902
“Solicitor Wells Ready to Ask for Indictment,” Asheville Citizen-Times, May 15, 1927, https://citizen-times.newspapers.com/image/942612715
“Physicians Wife Charged with Murder of Widow”, The Virginian-Pilot, May 15, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/845268833
“Grand Jury to Act Shortly in Cooper Killing,” The Asheville Citizen, May 16, 1927, https://citizen-times.newspapers.com/image/198089675
“Anna Montague Sticks to Story That She is Innocent”, Greensboro Daily News, May 17, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/937102871
“Fingerprints Found in Cooper Murder,” The Asheville Citizen, May 19, 1927, https://www.newspapers.com/image/942613993
“Mrs. Montague Indicted in Murder”, The Asheville Times, May 21, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942614666
“Mrs. Montague Refuses Finger Prints”, The Asheville Times, May 23, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942808182
“Evidence Hunt in Cooper Case at Standstill”, The Asheville Times, May 24, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942808333
“Cooper Cellar Yields Bloody Bedroom Rug”, May 26, 1927, The Asheville Citizen https://www.newspapers.com/image/198118897/
“Bloody Garments Is Added to Gruesome Cooper Murder Data,” The Asheville Times, May 26, 1927, https://www.newspapers.com/image/942808532/
“Mrs. Montague Will Rely on Facts in Trial”, The Asheville Citizen, May 27, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/198121323
“State Reveals Trump Card in Cooper Murder,” The Asheville Times, May 29, 1927, https://www.newspapers.com/image/942808987
“Mrs Montague is Arraigned on Murder Charge”, The Asheville Citizen, June 21, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/198178061/
“Cooper Murder Trial Opens with Surprises”, The Asheville Times, June23, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942814278/
“Cooper Death Details Bared As Trial Open”, Asheville Citizen, June 24, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/198184666
“Gory Rug Montague Trial Sensation”, The Asheville Times, June 24, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942814492/
“Mrs. Montague on Stand Today”, Asheville Citizen, June 25,1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/198187250
“Climax as State Angers Montague”, The Asheville Times, June 25, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942814781/
“Montague Faces Crisis Monday”, The Asheville Times, June 26, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942814931/
“Begin Arguments On Montague Fate”, The Asheville Times, June 27, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942815363
“Jury Gets Montague Case”, The Asheville Times, June 28, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942815721
“Seek to Impeach Montague Case Jury,” The Asheville Times, June 29, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942816294
“Claim Montague Jurors at Asheville Expressed Opinions Prior to Trial”, The Greenville News, June 30, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/188207230
“Mrs. Montague Release Feared Dangerous”, The Asheville Times, July 5, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942817861
“Montague In Rage Fires Attorneys,” The Asheville Citizen, July 7, 1927, https://www.newspapers.com/image/942818458‘
New Views By Cooper Murder Now Offered By Convicted Slayer’, The Asheville Times, July 8, 1927. https://www.newspapers.com/image/942819080/?match=1&terms=cooper
“Readers Referendum: Tired for Another Reason”, The Asheville Times, July 10, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942819376
“Montague to Change Plan, Gets Lawyer”, The Asheville Times, July 24, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942823492
“Fires Another Lawyer” The Asheville Times, July 28, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942824816
“Mrs. Montague Will Carry On Fight to Supreme Court”, Winston-Salem Journal, August 6, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/931978806
Baskervill, J.C. ‘Woman Convicted of Killing Mrs. Cooper Awaits Fate Calmly’, The Asheville Times, December 6, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942664094/
“Open Legal Fight for New Montague Trial” The Asheville Citizen, Dec. 6, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942664094
“Mrs. Montague’s Husband Is Dead”, Asheville Citizen, December 14, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/image/200079077
State vs. Montague, Jan 31 1928 https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/state-v-montague-551-929934515
‘Court Frees Mrs. Montague’, The Asheville Times, January 31, 1928 https://www.newspapers.com/image/942635623/
‘Mrs. Montague is Given Freedom’, News and Observer Raleigh, N.C.,February 2, 1928 https://www.newspapers.com/image/651050062
Find A Grave Memorial, Anna K. Montague https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33943203/anna_k-montague
Find A Grave Memorial, Dr. Samuel Montague https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97728164/samuel_spurgeon-montague
‘Mrs. Anna K. Montague’, The Virginian-Pilot, December 17, 1961 https://www.newspapers.com/image/846397493
1930 United States Census, Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina Ancestry.com
1940 United States Census, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Ancestry.com
Death Certificate of Anna K. Montague, certificate number 2526 , filed at Commonwealth of Virginia, Norfolk Ancestry.com
U.S., College Student Lists, 1763–1924. Ancestry.com, Lehi, Utah, 2012.
Georgia, U.S., Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828–1978. Ancestry.com, Lehi, Utah, 2013.
Consular Registration Certificates, compiled 1907–1918. NAID: 1244186. General Records of the Department of State, 1763–2002, Record Group 59. The National Archives in Washington, D.C.
North Carolina State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics. North Carolina Death Certificates. Microfilm S.123. Rolls 19-242, 280, 313-682, 1040-1297. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina.