Friends, The Jason Little affair and the burning of records in Breathitt County are two separate events. Jason Little shot and killed his second wife on October 18, 1878 in the front room of their small home on Cane Creek. The County Clerk's Office with marriage records and deeds (not the courthouse) burned as the result of arson on October 3, 1873. The records for trials and criminal cases including the trial of Jason Little are intact. The only time the Breathitt County Courthouse burned in 1886 after the C. J. Little Storehouse fire spread across the street. Thanks, Stephen D. Bowling