Joseph Shearing's To Bed at Noon, Robert Penn Warren's The World Enough and Time, and
Joseph Shearing's To Bed at Noon, Robert Penn Warren's The World Enough and Time, and Edgar  Allen Poe's Politian are all based on this event. It occurred in 1825 when Anna Cook was seduced by  Colonel Solomon Sharp. Anna married Jeroboam Beauchamp in return for his promise to kill Sharp,  which he fulfilled, and then was sentenced to death. The night before his death, Anna and Beauchamp  drank poison and she was killed, while he lived to be executed the next day. For ten points name this  event which was the basis for William Simms' work Beauchampe.
Joseph Shearing's To Bed at Noon, Robert Penn Warren's The World Enough and Time, and
The Kentucky Tragedy