mewithoutYou refers to a circus elephant on trial and sentenced to hanging in their 2012 concept album Ten Stories, specifically in the song "Elephant in the Dock". "Mighty Mary" is a 2018 novel by Australian author Max Davine which depicts a heavily fictionalized biography for Mary, including her time in the circus and her trial and eventual execution, published December 2018. The story of Mary's hanging is mentioned in the novel Judgement Cometh: and That Right Soon, while describing the setting of Erwin, Tennessee. In his story "A Walk in the Country" (reprinted in his collection Blood and Grits) Harry Crews writes about meeting someone haunted by the memory of Mary's execution. In his Letters to Father Flye James Agee mentions the incident. In the novel “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver the main character is warned “to be careful in Unicoi because there were folks down there mean enough to hang an elephant.” See also Animal rights Cruelty to animals List of individual elephants List of unusual deaths Chunee Topsy (elephant) Tyke (elephant) Ziggy (elephant) References External links The Strange Story of a Town that Publicly Lynched an Elephant for Murder The Moonlit Road: Murderous Mary The Hanging of Mary the Elephant 1916 animal deaths 1916 in Tennessee Animal rights Animal rights movement Circus animals Cruelty to animals Deaths by hanging Elephant attacks Individual animals in the United States Mary (elephant)|Mary Elephants in the United States