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

Category: Feuds

John Amis starts a feud with the North Forkers

The North Fork cattlemen shot the Amis horse & took 20 head of cattle from him to compensate for the cattle that John Amis destroyed.

John Amis was on the south side of the Kentucky River. William Strong was on the North Fork. Feud trouble was about to brew between them.

One of the first whites to settle in Marshall County, AL was John Gunter, a Scotsman who migrated from NC after the Revolutionary War.

Curt Jett shot US Commissioner J.B. Marcum at almost the exact spot at the Breathitt County Courthouse where he’d shot James Cockrill.

The raids of passing soldiers was the excuse for the organization, by both sides, of bands who claimed they were Home Guards.

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