--part1_a1.a302360.26e3119a_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/2/2000 12:54:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bblankin@ix.netcom.com writes: << Sue: I checked in my copy of Franklin County Virginia 1786-19986 A Bicentennial History by John and Emily Salmon, pp. 223-25. There is a lengthy review of a feud between the Witcher and Clement families which resulted in a gunfight at Dickinson's store 25, February 1860. "When the smoke cleared James and William Clement were dead, and Ralph Clement lay dying." I am not sure if this is what you are looking for. There is no mention of Carrie, but the incident was a major event in the history of Franklin County, VA. What is interesting Sue is that on page 222 just before the above is recorded, the assault in which Samuel Dillion charged that Barnett, Elijah, Elisha, Hezekiah, Isham (Jr.) and Isham (Sr.) and William Blankinship with "Swords, Clubs, Fists upon the said plaintiff . . . an assault did make and him did beat wound and ill treat so that his life was greatly despaired." This reference to a court record may be the only written proof on some of the siblings of Isham (Sr.). Bill Huntington Beach >> Hi Bill, and all other researchers, Bill that is the book I wanted. I was told by my mother about this gunfight years ago and wanted to read about it now in the book. My mother and her family knew the Witchers and the Clements. Mamma's family is the ones that told me about Carrie. Check in the Franklin Co. Census for 1870 or 1880 and you will find her I am SURE. She never married, so I am told, and she lived in the big brick house that her family had built, all by herself. She always wore black or gray clothes, long and loose. I was told that her hair grow long and straight and it looked like she had never combed or brushed it. My daddy told me that there is still blood on a rock near where the store was, we looked for the area once before and did not find anything. We did see the field, where the shooting was and it is all grown up in weeds now. And if memory serves me right here I do not think any of the Witcher boy were killed, two were wounded and had to be treated by the doctor. Bill, all of this happened in Franklin Co. on the Pittsylvania Co. side of Franklin, not the Bedford side. Sue --part1_a1.a302360.26e3119a_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <BLANKENSHIP-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-yg01.mx.aol.com (rly-yg01.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.1]) by air-yg02.mail.aol.com (v75_b3.11) with ESMTP; Sat, 02 Sep 2000 12:54:30 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.123]) by rly-yg01.mx.aol.com (v75_b3.9) with ESMTP; Sat, 02 Sep 2000 12:54:19 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e82Grcd15559; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 09:53:38 -0700 Resent-Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 09:53:38 -0700 X-Original-Sender: bblankin@ix.netcom.com Sat Sep 2 09:53:38 2000 Message-Id: <200009021653.MAA31399@tisch.mail.mindspring.net> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 4.5 (0410) Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 09:54:02 +0000 From: "Bill Blankinship" <bblankin@ix.netcom.com> Old-To: Blankenship List <BLANKENSHIP-L@rootsweb.com> Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Subject: [BLANKENSHIP] Franklin County History Resent-Message-ID: <en4M1.A.7yD.SCTs5@lists5.rootsweb.com> To: BLANKENSHIP-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: BLANKENSHIP-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: BLANKENSHIP-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <BLANKENSHIP-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/4129 X-Loop: BLANKENSHIP-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: BLANKENSHIP-L-request@rootsweb.com Sue: I checked in my copy of Franklin County Virginia 1786-19986 A Bicentennial History by John and Emily Salmon, pp. 223-25. There is a lengthy review of a feud between the Witcher and Clement families which resulted in a gunfight at Dickinson's store 25, February 1860. "When the smoke cleared James and William Clement were dead, and Ralph Clement lay dying." I am not sure if this is what you are looking for. There is no mention of Carrie, but the incident was a major event in the history of Franklin County, VA. What is interesting Sue is that on page 222 just before the above is recorded, the assault in which Samuel Dillion charged that Barnett, Elijah, Elisha, Hezekiah, Isham (Jr.) and Isham (Sr.) and William Blankinship with "Swords, Clubs, Fists upon the said plaintiff . . . an assault did make and him did beat wound and ill treat so that his life was greatly despaired." This reference to a court record may be the only written proof on some of the siblings of Isham (Sr.). Bill Huntington Beach ==== BLANKENSHIP Mailing List ==== Judith Manley has her BLANKENSHIP's online at http://Yelnam.tripod.com/. Take a look! --part1_a1.a302360.26e3119a_boundary--