MESSAGE POSTED TO THE LYON CO. MESSAGE BOARD Surnames: Bigwood, Skinner, Gatewood Author: Julian Dismukes Date: 25 May 2002 1:47 AM GMT Classification: Query My grandfather, Dr. Julian Dismukes, son of Dr. Zachary (dentist) and Ella Moss Dismukes grew up in Kuttawa, as an adolescent, circa 1900, and regailed us with stories about baseball (photo to support stories), Eddyville prison, last public hanging at Eddyville, high crimes, Sheriff named Bill McCollum, the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, local color, etc. He spoke of a tombstone in the old Eddyville cemetery, quoting it verbatim. A few years ago I located and photographed it. The epitaph reads: M.T. BIGWOOD BORN Dec. 13, 1839 Murdered in cold blood by Hy Skinner and Jim Gatewood on the 11 of April 1887. Vengence is mine saith the Lord. At the time, the inscription was well preserved, but I understand it has deteriorated much lately. Would appreciate any backgound information--ie: the rest of the story. jd PLEASE RESPOND TO dismukes@apex.net Also respond to this list as the rest of us would like to know too!!!! ********************************************************************** *****Your kygenweb homepages are***** CALDWELL http://home.hiwaay.net/~woliver/caldwell.html LYON http://home.hiwaay.net/~woliver/lyon.html TRIGG http://www.kyseeker.com/trigg/index.html **********************************************************************