Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Feuds

SC’s famous ‘Dark Corner’ wasn’t the first

Throughout the 19th century SC had six additional counties containing a ‘dark corner.’ They weren’t at all like the Greenville County one.

Cap Hatfield’s reason for stopping at Gunnison had nothing to do with gold fever or a personal desire for wealth.

Cap Hatfield and his younger brothers escaped the law, a local WV posse, and possibly a hangman’s noose and headed west.

For many years Ira Butts and neighbor Clifton Pitts had been arguing over the boundary line of a small piece of property.

I never think of Shea’s Fork without my mind reverting back to that dismal, heartless day in the long ago.

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