Roxalana Druse

On February 28th, 1887, forty year old Roxalana Druse
was hanged in New York for murder. (The last woman hanged in New York
State before the electric chair replaced the gallows in 1890.)
Roxalana Druse and her retarded daughter Mary beat her husband John
(aged 72) to death and then chopped up his body boiling down the
remains. They lived in a frontier cabin in Little Falls New York. They
were caught because her 12 year old son informed the police that his
father was missing. The alleged motive for the crime was that her
husband worked her too hard. She was hanged but her daughter was given
a prison sentence.

http://www.geocities.com/trctl11/femhang.html

This account calls the husband "abusive":

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyherkim/herktown/gillette.html

Naturally, someone's working on a screenplay based on her life...

http://pub51.ezboard.com/fborderwalkerfrm1.showMessage?topicID=33.topic