Two tidbits:

Atlanta Constitution, Sept. 1, 1915, p. 6:

                      NORTH CA'LINY FOLK-SONG


O J Coffin is the author if this folk-song in The Charlotte Observer:


They haint a gal like Cindy
There'll never be but one
Th' Lawd when he had made er
Seed whut he'd went an done

O git along home Cindy Cindy
O git along home Cindy Cindy
O git along home Cindy Cindy
Down in Rockingham

Woodent merry Cindy
Tell you reason why
Necks so long an stringy
Feared shed never die

Cindy in th Summertime
Cindy in the Fall
Kaint git Cindy all th time
Wont have Cindy tall


And from the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer, Sept. 15, 1886:

"A Light-hearted Murderer

Wiley Gosnell, of Madison county, has been lodged in jail at Marshall,charged with the murder of his wife. It seems that one day last winter Gosnell and one Ephraim Shelton got into a row at Gosnell's house. Both drew pistols, simultaneously. Mrs. Gosnell rushed between the belligerents just before they fired at each other, and received a shot which killed her. Whose pistol fired the fatal shot is a matter of some doubt. Gosnell was captured in Haywood county. He came into Marshall on his way to jail between two guards, gaily picking a banjo to the tune of 'Git along home, Cindy Jane.'"