At 04:28 PM 11/9/98 -0600, Don Reader wrote: >I would love to hear about your "Adcock criminals". How many other Macoupin >County Black Sheep are there? > >Don Reader There were Adcock criminals in the NAIL search, but haven't found anything abt my direct Adcock side except for them being fighters and fined for such in Robertson Co TN. My ggggrandfather Henry Adcock was fined for fighting then I found his son, Edward, my gggrandfather, a few years later was fined for fighting. My murderers comes in my line of Shipps in Taylor Co KY. My gggrandfather died in the early 1860's so I assumed he was killed in the CW war - so noble! My brother went to Taylor Co and brought back the newspaper clipping and inquest paper abt his death. Think it was a drunken thing. But someone had threatened my gggrandfather, Thomas Shipp, with a gun, he took the gun away and hit the guy over the head with a rock. The guy lay dying. Then my gggrandfather went over by a/back of a tavern and started a fight. Another guy took a rock and hit my gggrandfather over the head. So, two guys were laying side by side dying in the morgue. Thomas' youngest son, oops, maybe a grandson of Thomas, was up for murder twice and got off both times. One time he was found not guilty. Another time he was found guilty but on appeal, the earlier jury was found to have been housed in the accusing side's relative's house so the higher court reversed the earlier decision. One I am trying to follow today is a closer kin relative of the 1930's. He was suppose to have driven a getaway car in an armed robbery. My parents were so much older than me, like the two generation thing, that I really didn't know abt this when they were living so didn't have the chance to ask, "What prison, etc?" I did find at IRAD in Spfld IL the jail pickup to be transferred to Madison Co IL on the charges. As far as I have gotten. That was in the Shipp line, too. I don't think I would talking much if it touched my life personally.......... Gloria