325 Years Later, Witch Trial Victims Remembered

(19 Jul 2017) The Massachusetts community where 20 people suspected of witchcraft were put to death in 1692 unveiled a memorial to 19 of those victims on Wednesday, promising never to forget the tragedy.
The ceremony came 325 years to the day when Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse and Sarah Wildes were hanged at a site in Salem known as Proctor's Ledge. It was the first of three mass hangings at the spot. The 20th victim was crushed to death.
Descendants of some of the people who were hanged during the Salem witch trials have attended the dedication of a memorial at the site of the executions.
One of the descendants, Jeffrey Stark, said Wednesday the memorial "brings justice to the fact that they were wrongly accused."
The semi-circular stone wall memorial is inscribed with the names of the people hanged at the site, now a small city-owned lot in a residential neighborhood and behind a pharmacy.

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