You wrote, in part: I presume I am a Kemper descendant. My GGGG Grandmother was Leticia (or Letitia) Whitesides Kemper, second wife of Jacob Coons (1), born 1740 in Culpeper, VA, grandson of Johann "Jost" Cuntze. Jacob and Leticia were married around 1795. My response: I don't collect ALL the Kempers, some of whom who lived in Kentucky in counties which I have not researched. I concentrate mostly on Garrard Co., KY, and its adjacent county, Mercer Co., where their cousins the Holtzclaws lived. And now I find your people in Fayette Co., KY--not too distant from Garrard Co. If through your local public library - or a nearby one - you are able to access the online genealgoical database called HeritageQuest, I believe you will find a digitized copy of Willis N. Kemper's genealogy of the Kemper Family in the USA. Some historians quarrel with the history Mr. Kemper gives, and I have to confess I have not read that part. I believe Mr. Kemper, who compiled this genealogy over 100 years ago, probably worked with what was available to him. As with many of us, he probably drew the wrong conclusions. In some libraries, there is a supplement to this genealogy, which I confess I have not read. I believe the Family History Library in Salt Lake City has filmed both the genealogy [a thick volume] and its supplement. Also, on HeritageQuest are some books compiled by a later genealogist, who visited Germany and who spoke German, B. C. Holtzclaw. If you are able to access HeritageQuest, do an author or surname search in the Book Section of Holtzclaw. He did some genealogies of several Germanna colonist families. In a separate e-mail, I am sending some notes I have accumulated on a Henry Kemper, and according to the will of his widow, Letitia Camper, she names a daughter Lettice Coons. I am sorry I did include in my notes the source of my information. Incidentally, when I clicked on HeritageQuest and searched Books, specifying Fayette Co., KY, I found some Rev War pensions had been abstracted long ago, and among the pensions was one for Tilman Camper. Tilman, I see, is one of the witnesses to the will of Henry Camper, proved Jan 1793, in Fayette Co., KY. This information will be forthcoming in another e-mail, but, unfortunately, without the source. I must have made these notes long ago! If these are your people, you probably want to get a copy of the handwritten wills of both Henry Camper and his widow Letitia Camper. I am fairly sure these must be on films available through the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. E.W.Wallace descendant of the Kempers of Garrard Co., KY near Dicks River ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CabinSue Surnames: Hill, Evans Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3924/mb.ashx Message Board Post: At the May election, 1850, my sons Samuel and Thomas, the one in his 19th and the other in his 17th year, were by themselves in Lancaster. About 3 o'clock in the evening they went from Kincaid's store to a saddler's shop, to get a new saddle they had bought, and from there to go home. Samuel walked across the square, and went above stairs into the shop to get the saddle. Thomas rode his own horse and led his brother's across. Just as he alighted from his horse to receive the saddle when his brother should bring it down out of the shop, Isaiah Hill saw him and made toward him at the same time drawing his pistol, Thomas drew his pistol, and two of the Hills fired at the same time. Isaiah and Russell Hill caught him and cut him down with a bowie knife, and, while they were cutting at him as he lay at the foot of the stairs, Samuel came down and commenced firing at them. In the meantime, some fifteen or twenty of the Hill party closed in on Thomas as he lay weltering in hi! s blood, and were also engaged in firing up the stairway at Samuel. After four of the Hills had been shot and dangerously wounded, the rest left and got their rifles, which they had brought with them and deposited in different points in town, and on their return, it was with difficulty they could be kept from shooting Thomas, who, everybody that witnessed the scene, believed already dead. He was taken from the square, and here the encounter ended. It is proper to remark my sons were under bonds to keep the peace at the time, and had been bound over by the Hills sometime before. As soon as I was assured that I would not be murdered by the Hills while in custody of the law and in despite of its officers, I surrendered myself up to justice, was tried, and unhesitantly acquited by my peers of any blame for the killing of Jesse Hill. At the next circuit court, the grand jury returned indictments against nearly all the Hills for their assault on me and the attempt to murder my sons. None of my family or myself were indicted, not withstanding the Hills went before the grand jury and testified against me. The foregoing statemtn contains substantially the facts elicited on my trial and the investigation before the grand jury. They were taken down by a skillful and faithful hand under the direction of the court, and read and signed by the witnesses and are now on file in the office. I leave a just and enlightened public to form their own opinion, which they could not have done with any degree of correctness from the imperfect statement of your Boyle correspondent. H. Evins Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CabinSue Surnames: Hill, Evans Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3923/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From this time forward, the Hills went in a crowd, armed to the teeth for the avowed purpose, as they insisted to diverse responsible citizens, of taking my life. The went neither to court, to muster, nor any other public place, nor did they even pass though the neighborhood unless several of the were together and had their rifles on their shoulders. I could not pass to a neighbor's house in safety, and not unfrequently, when attending to the duties of my profession among the sick, had to be guarded. My stock was found shot dead upon my farm. My servants and little boys were repeatedly shot at and run from the field when at work. My dwelling-house was on diverse occasions beseiged and shot into, as its walls and windows now testify; and finally, to protect myself and family from outrage, I was forced to keep almost constantly a standing guard, composed of my neighbors, who kindly volunteered their services. This state of affairs continued until the March county court, 1850. On that day, Jesse Hill was in Lancaster - was drinking, and was a very violent, dangerous man when in that conditon - who was always seeking difficulties, and had had many bloody fights. He had sworn to several persons in town that morning that he would kill some man on that day; and not more that fifteen minutes before he was killed, had his pistol out in the tavern and drank, and said at the same time that was the last drink he would take until he had killed some one, and started for the courthouse, where Judge Robertson was making a political speech. He came into the house and caught at a boy about twelve years old, who, as the witnesses stated, resembled in size and appearance as my little son who gone to town with me, but, as they did not know my son, they could not state positively that he was the same. The boy aimed to run within the bar, but could not get through the crowd and went out the door! . Hill followed on out, and, not finding the object of his pursuit, he spit in the face of an old man and drew his pistol to shoot him. He was caught by a man and led off some ten feet and struggled loose and made an attempt to shoot the man who held him. Just at this moment a gentleman came to me and told me Hill was at the door drunk, and that my boys were there - that I had better go and see to them. I walked to the door, and as soon as I got there, Hill saw me and advanced toward me. I beckoned to hm with my hand and told him two or three time to go away. He exclaimed that he was not afraid of hell, at the same time drawing his pistol out of the pocket of his pantaloons or from under the skirt of his coat, when I drew my pistol and fired, and he fell with his pistol in his hand pointed toward me, and he trying to pull it off. He expired in a few seconds. I immediately went into the courthouse intending to surrender myself into the hands of the law when the commotion of the crowd subsided. This I could not do with any degree of safety. The cry of kill him arose, and between one hundred and two hundred persons collected on the public square, and, as myself and two sons galloped out of town, they followed in hot pursuit with pistols, rocks, etc. One of the crowd in advance of the rest came within a few feet of my son, who was behind - presented a pistol, and demanded his surrender. My son turned on his horse and advised his pursuer to desist - he heeded the admonishment and the pursuit was abandoned. End Part 2 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CabinSue Surnames: Hill, Evans Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3922/mb.ashx Message Board Post: This is a very long letter so I will split up in sections. Bear with me. I had to write down in shorthand and then transcribe. My library does not have one of the new digital readers. Thank heavens, I took two years of shorthand in school, in this case, it came in handy. >From the Louisville Daily Journal - Sep 2, 1850 To the Editors of the Louisville Journal Garrard Co., Ky Aug 24, 1850 Gentlemen: A correspondent of Boyle county, is in a communication to your paper in May last, having, as I conceive, done me a great injustice in his attempt to give an account of the difficulties between Mr. Hills and myself and family. I feel it due to us that the facts as they really transpired, and as they have been_______upon judicial investigation, should be given to the public. When the communication alluded to made its appearance, a friend of mine who was cognizant of all the facts addressed a letter to the writer telling them first in detail, and, having every reason to hope the proper correction would be made without laying me under the necessity of clearing my name before the public, I have remained silent, when perhaps justice to myself would have demanded an earlier notice of the matter at my hands. For the last twelve or thirteen years, I have had reason to believe that the Hill family had hostile intentions toward me, not I belive on account of any personal dislike for me on their part, but were prompted to it by one or two others, who had mistreated and assaulted me in the most brutal and dastardly manner, and who, writhing under their own shame and the fierce chastisement of public indignation, have in their malice instigated and brought about all the difficulties between the Hills and myself. Up to a little over a year ago, however, no serious demonstrations had been made. In July, 1849, one of the Mr. Hills gave a public dinner in Garrard county, the public generally were invited. I was waited upon by two of the family and especially requested to attend. Believing it an overture of friendship and an offer on their part to heal wounds, which they had inflicted contrary to their own convictions of right, to gratify the malice of others, more wicked and designing and less magnanimous than they, I willingly and gladly grasped the olive branch of peace, and went, where I was never more politely and respectfully treated. Indeed, I conceived that the Hills, one and all, treated me with more attention and kindness and were at greater pains to render me agreeable than any guest in attendance - all, as I at the time supposed, to evince to me the sincerity of their professions, and were unsuspectingly so received by me. In the evening, I was preparing to leave for home, and a friend, who was going with me, requested me to wait a short time, to whic! h I assented. By the time he was ready, it was thick dusk. We started in opposite directions for our horses. On my way to my horse, I was told that the Hills and their party, some fifteen or twenty in number, were preparing to make an attack on me. I replied that such could not be the case - that they had invited me there and had manifested none but the kindest feelings toward me, that all old difficulties, or something to that effect, were healed. Believing that my informant was mistaken, I thought nothing of it, mounted my horse and rode up within about twenty yards of the company to await the return of my friend who had gone after his horse. While sitting on my horse, one of the Hill party called to me and asked me if I was going home. I told him I was. He replied that he had a word with me, and walked up to my horse, I stooped toward him, and while he was pretending to whisper in my ear, I received a violent blow on the back of my head, from what I afterward ascertained to be a piece or iron. >From the position in which Jesse Hill stood - one had invited me there - I felt confident that he must of struck the blow, which has since turned out to be true. He immediately advanced close to my side, and I asked him why he had struck me. He denied it, but said he could do so damned quick if I wanted him to. I begged him not. He said he would give the damn old scoundrel a few rocks anyhow. And he and the Hill crowd immediately fell to and commenced pelting me and my horse with stones and clubs. I was driven in between a fence and a tobacco house, where they kept up a shower of stones and other missiles, some of them hitting me with sticks, and one of them hit me several severe blows with a large dogwood fork. By what means my horse carried me out of this place it is almost impossible to conceive, as he must have jumped over the fence, which was very high, or have passed between the fence and the corner of the house, a narrow defile said not to be more that two fee! t! wide. He, however, escaped with me, or I should beyond all doubt have been killed there. My horse started off with me down a hill, the crowd still after me, keeping up their blows. Exhausted from fatigue and the loss of blood, I fell from my horse, unconscious of my condition. My son, who by this time, had come to me, took me up on the horse, and by shrinking and dodging through the timber and around the hill, they lost me, and gave up the pursuit. Several pistols were fired at me during the time, and the crowd kept up a general cry of kill him, kill him, etc. I was taken home by son and a neighbor, my jaw-bone and several of my ribs broken, my head cut to the skull in a great number of places and my body literally beaten to pieces. I was confined to my room for six weeks and never expected to recover from the effects of the beating. End 1st part. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: cwholsapple Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3914.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello Sandra: Your posts of historic articles are much appreciated! My 3g-grand mother, Martha Brim, was a sister of the James Brim mentioned in the article. He and Jesse May have been described as bodyguards of Dr. Evans in one account. I'm especially interested in any Brim newspaper information you might happen to encounter. Martha was married to Edward Slaughter and they lived in Garrard Co and adjacent Rockcastle Co. Edward's son by a prior marriage, Green Slaughter, was indicted for the murder of Absolom Pollard (of Garrard Co) in Nov or Dec of 1864. The wife of John Hill (father of Oliver Perry Hill) was Melinda Pollard, sister of Absolom. Green Slaughter disappeared from the vicinity, and was never tried. His father, Edward, was murdered a few months later in May 1865, being shot while working on a barn roof and dying on May 10, 1865. His second wife, Martha (aka Patsy) Brim Slaughter and her young sons fled to Indiana. If you happen upon any newspaper items that relate to these persons or events, could you please post them to this board? Thank you very much, Clyde Holsapple Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

E.W. I presume I am a Kemper descendant. My GGGG Grandmother was Leticia (or Letitia) Whitesides Kemper, second wife of Jacob Coons (1), born 1740 in Culpeper, VA, grandson of Johann "Jost" Cuntze. Jacob and Leticia were married around 1795. I know somewhere I have a little more information about her, but I can't put my fingers on it right now. I seem to remember her father as being Henry Kemper, but wouldn't swear to it. Jacob and Leticia Coons were in Montgomery County, Kentucky, in 1800 when my GGG Grandfather was born, Jacob Coons (2). He married Matilda Jane Howe in Montgomery County, Kentucky, in 1820. Matilda was the daughter of Joseph P. Howe, a noted Presbyterian preacher in Kentucky. Many people have used his copious marriage/death records to do research, since most public records were destroyed in the Civil War. Marilyn Schwartz Bellingham, WA -----Original Message----- From: kygarrar-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:kygarrar-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Hdanw@aol.com Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 10:34 AM To: KYGARRAR-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [KYGARRAR] Death of John Kemper - 1834 - Garrard Co., KY While attempting to sort out the mess in my clutter room, I picked up an old copy of Kentucky Ancestors (Winter 2001, Vol 37, No. 2) In it is a continuation of *Index of the Frankfort Commonwealth, 1833-35 (Part Four)* p. 109 Kemper, John, died in Garrard County, Oct. 25, 1834 Will any Kemper descendants, many of whom went to Missouri, please contact me. This John Kemper, one of many of that name, according to documents of Garrard Co., was the paternal grandfather of my ancestor, John Frederick Kemper, who went to Texas ca 1835 to participate in the Texian [sic] Revolution against Mexico. John Frederick's father, George Nimrod Kemper [labeled various ways in Garrard Co. documents] predeceased his father John Kemper, the elder, who lived in the Dick's River area. His wife was the former Sarah Rosser. According to documents at the Texas State Archives, John Frederick was master armourer of the Texian Army. About ten years later, he was killed by Karankawa Indians, who were prevalent along the Texas coast country. I am a descendant of John Frederick Kemper's only surviving child. E.W.Wallace ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KYGARRAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: JackMurphy49 Surnames: MURPHY, HILL, YARBROUGH Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3917.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Sandra, I can't begin to tell you how unique your contributions have been to the list over the last several days. I can believe how hard-headed the MURPHY clan can be - I'm one... I do know that one of the reasons that Joseph Murphy got into the fray mainly because his sisters, Lucy and Mary Jane married into the HILL family and both of their spouses were killed by the EVANS. It was a different time then...I think it's pretty sad when one of the men Joseph MURPHY murdered was Jesse Mays - the same person who "saved" Joseph MURPHY at the Battle of Buenau Vista. Thanks again for your contributions. I'm hoping one of those relic newspapers have additional articles that may lead to some new clues for my research. My Brick Wall is Joseph's father, John MURPHY who married Mary "Polly" YARBROUGH. John was reportedly born in 1755, married Jul 1796 (Lincoln County) to Polly, settled into what is now Garrard County, and died in 1826. He is buried on William MURPHY's old farm (which I tr! ied to find a couple of years ago and got lost in the hills). But that area around Lancaster is truly beautiful and I don't regret one second of the 35 cent tour. One day, I hope to find their graves. Thanks again for your transcription. Jack Murphy Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CabinSue Surnames: Hoskins, Perkins, Arnold Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3921/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From the Louisville Daily Journal - Oct 10, 1850 To the Editors of the Louisville Journal: Garrard County, Ky., Sept 23, 1850: Gentlemen: In your Journal of this week, I notice a paragraph, in which is stated, upon the authority of a Lancaster correspondent, that the charges made by me against Mr. John B. Arnold, my competitor at the late August election, were proven false, and that the free negro Plez had instituted suit against myself and others for slander. That, sirs, I assure you, is doing me great injustice, as it calculated to form an undue prejudice against me in the minds of those who are soon to adjudicate the matter; and who, as yet, know nothing of the facts relating to the case. As to the negro suing me, it is false; and even had he, I would not fear sustantiating the charge in any court of justice, there being three separate and distinct records, either of which would warrant me in the assertion. In the suit of Laurena Perkins vs. Christian Perkins, for alimony and divorce, she sets foth, as one of the causes, his intercourse with the negro Eda, the mother of Pleasant, which was not controverted. There is also the will of Christian Perkins, emancipating the whole family, and, lastly, there was the mother of Pleasant, voluntarily listing herself and children (Pleasant included) as free negroes in 1840. It is true that suit has been instigated against one of my friends (Maj. A. J. Brown) who, they knew, would be an important witness for me, from the fact of his intimacy with the Perkins family, and they hoped thereby to invalidate his testimony. Their whole course from beginning to this time has been characterized by ______, resorted to for the purpose of bluffing me from my determination, his first handbill being leased upon the day the commissioners were to be appointed, the second just as they were to commence their sittings, when there was no call whatever for either, neither one containing an iota of proof as to the legality of Plea's vote or any of the 37 others which I had challenged. I herewith send you a handbill in which is contained a certified copy of the clause of the will by which Plez was emancipated, together with certificates from as respectable citizens as our county affords as to his standing. As to the certificate of John Johnson, his son, who was living with him at the time he made Perkin's his home, will certify to the reverse. This publication in your paper, together with his last handbill, will place me under the necessity of issuing another, which I would not have otherwise done. You will therefore much oblige me by giving the name of your Lancaster correspondent, who, you can state upon my authority, has lied basely and knowingly, Arnold not having proven in any the legality of Plea's vote. You, I hope, will do me the justice to make the necessary correction in you next; and, if it is consistent with your feelings, I would be pleased you would publish the letter of your Lancaster correspondent. All I ask is fair play until the facts can be brought before the proper tribunal, when I fear not the results. I am, sirs, very respectfully, yours, W. A. Hoskins Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CabinSue Surnames: Woods Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3920/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From the Louisville Daily Journal - Aug 7, 1861 Fatal Accident. - A young man named Woods of Garrard county, Ky., a member of Capt Dunn's company, was shot at Camp Dick Robinson, one day last week by the accidental discharge of a pistorl. He died from the effects of the wound on Saturday last. End. Sandra Hurt-Norris Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CabinSue Surnames: Daniel Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3919/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From the Weekly Ohio State Journal - Jul 7, 1847 Trial of A. G. Daniel. - In Philadelphia, on Wednesday last, the trial of Abner G. Daniel, of Garrard county, Ky., charged with obtaining goods under false pretences, was brought to a close by the jury returning a verdict of guilty. The punishment is confinement in the penitentiary. Maj. Daniel has occupied many important public stations. He has frequently represented Garrard county in th Kentucky Legislature and Garrard and Lincoln in the Senate of the State, and ws at one time a candidate for Congress in the 4th district. End. Sandra Hurt-Norris Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CabinSue Surnames: Hill, Evans Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3918/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From the Boston Herald - Jan 9, 1861 A Family Feud. About eight years ago, a family of Evanses was very near exterminated by a family of Hills in Garrard county, Ky. On the night of Monday, the 31st inst. at their residence in Lost Island, three of the Hills - Jesse, William, and Russell Hill, were surrounded by several persons who shot at and killed them. The names of the assasins were not known but two individuals had been arrested on suspicion. One of them is a policeman of Louisville. Question: Anyone know who these Hills are? Boston Herald picked the story up from the Louisville Daily Journal. End. Sandra Hurt-Norris Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CabinSue Surnames: Hill, Evans, Murphy, May Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3917/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From the Louisville Daily Journal - Jan 25, 1853 The Feud in Garrard Co., KY. - The Hills and Evans - From a private letter to a citizen of his place we learn that the trial of the parties surviving the last fray, (at a tobacco barn in which some half dozen on each side were engaged, and several killed and others wounded) has resulted in their acquital. The account further states that the clans respectively have signed a formal treaty of peace - obliging themselves to refrain from further hostilities - except the Murphys and Mays, who still refuse to treat. It is also stated that by various battles, assassinations, sieges, etc., among them, eight men and boys have been killed, several crippled and maimed for life, and forty-eight children left fatherless. The quarrel commenced about the year 1822. As strange as all this may appear, it has occurred in a county which we know to be celebrated for the intelligence and general moral worth of its inhabitants - the native home of personages no less distinguished in Kentucky t! han McKee, Robertson, Owsley, and Letcher. Columbia, MO Statesman. End. Sandra Hurt-Norris PS. Sorry, these are out of order but I'm having to look at a lot of articles in a lot of newspapers. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: roslynmclendon Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3916.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am not related to any of these, but am enjoying reading the contents-keep up the good work. Roslyn Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CabinSue Surnames: Hill, Evans, Segacy Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3916/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From the Charleston Mercury - May 30, 1850 Disgraceful State of Things in Garrard County, Kentucky A correspondent of the Louisville Journal, writing from Boyle county, on the 10th Inst. shows the existence of an unhappy condition of things in Garrard county. He says: "Some two or three months since, a Dr. Evans, living in a rather notorious portion of the county, known by the name of Sugar Creek Hills, shot down, in the town of Lancaster, the county seat, one of his neighbors by the name of Hill. Evans made his escape without being arrested, and is now, it is supposed, in Indiana. A few days afterwards, the sheriff of the county, with a posse consisting in part at least, of the friends of Hill, went to the house of Evans to take him. He had already left the county, but his house was armed and defended by his family and clan, who fired on the sheriff and posse. Fifteen or twenty or more rounds, it is said, were fired on both sides. At length a parley was obtained, and the sheriff, having ascertained that Evans was not a home, left. One or two men were slightly woundedin this minature battle. Since that time the Hills and Evanses have been armed to the teeth with bowie-knives, revolvers and guns, and their houses perfect garrisons. At least such is the current report, believed to be true. No collision, however, took place until last Monday, the first day of the election, when one of the young Evanses and one of the Hills met accidentally on the sidewalk in the town of Lancaster, at or near a stairway leading from the street ino the second story of a house occupied as a saddler's shop. Young Evans designed to ascend the stairs to the shop. They drew their pistols mutually, it is said by one report - by another, coming from Hill, however, himself, Evans drew and fired on Hill. The ball struck the handle of a pistol in his pocket, which saved his life. The Hill gang, whether by accident or design is not known, were near, and immediately fell upon Evans with knives, and cut his throat on each side and his upper lip nearly off, and gave him a severe wound in the! head, and were literally cutting him up, when his brother, who happened to be above stairs in the shop mentioned, came to his assistance, and shot down from or near the head of the stairway, with a revolver, successively, Russel Hill, Fred. Hill, Wm. Hill, jr. and Henry Segany (note: should be Segecy), a brother-in-law. Numerous shots were made at him without killing him. The battle seems to have been over the body of the other Evans, who lay weltering in his blood at the bottom of the stairway, and who was supposed to be dead. None of the five wounded men are, however, yet dead, and it is thought they may all recover. Evans, the hero of the combat, was taken into custody, but released, it is said, without trial; perhaps to await the result of the wounds of the Hills. The facts here stated may not be correct in the detail, but are probably so in the main. I have received them several sources, and among others from a gentleman who visited the wounded man, who was formerly a neighbor of both parties, with a view of endeavoring to make up the deadly strife. He, however, gave it as his opinion that it would not terminate till one or both clans were exterminated. They still breathe the most deadly vengeance. End. Sandra Hurt-Norris Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ThelmaHill531 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3915.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I would like to thank you, for the posts that you have made. I am a direct desendant of Isaiah Hill, who was killed in the Tabaccoo House fight. I have been looking for information on the feud, and it was sure great to see these newspaper accounts of it. Again thank you so much. James M. Hill Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CabinSue Surnames: Hill, Evans, May, Murphy Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3915/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From the Daily Picayune (New Orleans) Apr 29, 1853 More Bloodshed in Garrard County, Ky. --The Danville, Ky. Tribune of the 8th Inst., says: On Monday last, Joseph Murphy was killed in Lancaster, Ky., by Jackson May. We understand that Murphy was sitting in the bar-room of Farris's Tavern, when May approached unseen by him and shot him in the head, producing almost instant death. May escaped and last accounts was still at large. In one of the affrays between the Hill and Evans parties several months ago since, a brother of May was killed by Murphy, and this we judge to be the cause of the difficulty between the two men. End. Sandra Hurt-Norris Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CabinSue Surnames: Hill, Evans, Murphy Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3914/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From the Daily Picayune (New Orleans) Sep 14, 1852 Another Tragedy in Kentucky. -- The Lancaster, Ky. Argus, of the 3rd Inst., has the following account of another tradegy in Garrard county, in that State: As Dr. Evans was coming in town on Saturday with the witnesses for his sons, they fell in company with George R. Hackley, Henry A. Kurtz and Dr. Tillet, just beyond Dr. Hills's house, and Dr. Evans rode upon the outside of them as they were passing the house, and remarked at the time, "He didn't think they would shoot three clever men to kill one mean one." After they had passed the house and were just in the turn of the road, a shot was fired which passed through the lapel of the coat of James Brim, and before they had proceeded ten steps another shot was fired, striking Jesse May in the back, below the right shoulder. May retained his position on his horse for about a hundred yards, and fell in attempting to dismount. The remainder of the party, with the exception of Samuel Gordon, also recognized with the party, galloped off at the first fire for town; but he left his horse and leaped over into the pasture on the opposite side of the road from the firing, the assailant! s being between him and town, when two shots were fired at him without effect. Several persons from town immediately went to May, and physicians were called, but too late, the vital spark had fled. He was brought to town and placed in a coffin, and the next day he was taken to his friends on Sugar Creek and buried. Great excitement prevailed among the Evanses, and they thought of immediately repairing to the house and storming it, but gave up their designs. Dr. Hill and Joseph Murphy were arrested and a guard placed over them to await their trial before an examining court. They were brought up on Wednesday last before Esquires Teeter and Ray, and the case was continued till Wednesday next, at 9 o'clock A. M. We shall wait till after the trial before we say anything in regard to it, and we wish from the bottom of our heart that we may never again be called upon to note the death of another of three parties, but we fear that such is not the case. We shall never feel secure till the last vestige of them is removed from the country. End. Sandra Hurt-Norris Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CabinSue Surnames: Murphy, Mckee Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3913/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From the Louisville Daily Journal - Aug 5, 1852 A difficulty took place at Lancaster, Kentucky, on Friday last, between S. F. McKee and James Murphy. Four shots were exchanged, badly wounding both the combatants and killing a negro woman who was looking on. End. Sandra Hurt-Norris Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CabinSue Surnames: Hill, Evans Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3912/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From the Daily Picayune (New Orleans) Jun 11, 1852 More Bloodshed. -- The Lancaster, Ky. Banner of the 3rd inst., gives the following account of another bloody affray in that county on the 1st inst. It is a continuation of the bloody affray mentioned by us some time since: The particulars we detail as we have learned them from Dr. S. L. Burden, the attending physician: James Hill, a son of Frederick Hill, one of the survivors of the late affray, known as the "Scott's Fork Tragedy," and Nelson Sutherland alias Nels Bedster, were returning home from the plantation of John and Squire Leavel where they had been at work. On they way they had to pass a short distance up main Sugar Creek to the mouth of Scott's Fork, in doing which they were fired upon by four of the Evanses and Jackson May, who were concealed in ambush. Many shots were fired by the Evans party, between five and ten balls taking effect upon Sutherland, killing him instantly. During this affray he received several severe cuts with a bowie knife. James Hill, a boy some fifteen-sixteen years of age, received one wound in his thigh by a ball from the Evans's. He then attempted to make his escape by flight, but was pursued by the four Evans's, who shot at him several times. He was ! upon overtaken by the party and severely beaten over the head with the barrels of their weapons, after which, they took from him his own pistol and shot him, the ball taking effect in his hip. He would probably have been killed but for the timely interference of some person who came up and advised them to leave, telling them that the whole Hill party were coming upon them. No shots were fired by Hill or Sutherland. The probability is that Hill will recover, although he is dangerously wounded, one ball lodging near the hip joint. None of the parties have as yet been apprehended, from the fact, we presume, that they are regarded by the community as being law proud. It seems to be a war of extermination and there is no hope of a reconciliation between the parties. End. Sandra Hurt-Norris Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CabinSue Surnames: Hill, Evans, Sellers, Crisman Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3911/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The Boston Herald - Mar 23, 1852 Terrible Affray in Kentucky -- A correspondent of the Louisville Courier, writing from Lancaster, Ky., gives the following account of one of the most desperate and deadly fights that ever occurred in that State. The origin of the difficulty is not stated, but it seems to have been a family feud. The letter, which is dated the 14th Inst., says: "Last evening, about five o'clock, Russel Hill, Isaiah Hill, Frederick Hill, and two or three boys, some of Isaiah and Frederick, were returning home from Teetersville, accompanied by Dr. O. P. Hill, of this place. Just as the party got opposite to a tobacco house, (which had been fortified) on Scott's Fork, Sugar Creek, they were fired upon, and Russel Hill fell mortally wounded. His brothers and nephews hastened to his assistance. The fire from the house still increasing, he remarked, "You can do me no good boys; they have killed me; do the best you can," and expired. The Hills then charged upon the house, and Isaiah Hill was killed just as he was getting over the fence. The door of the house was forced by the remaining Hills, and the fight continued with fire arms and bowie knives. John Sellers was shot by the son of Isaiah Hill, (12 or 14 years of age) and fell and expired after received five other shots through the head. William Crisman was shot by the same boy, when in the act of stabbing Frederick Hill with a bowie knife.---Chrisman died, having in his body one pistol shot and 53 wounds by knife. A man by the name of Alverson, and another by the name of Samuel Tellors (note:Sellers), (of the house party) were slightly wounded. Two of the boy (Hills) were wounded with rifle balls, and one of them, a mere boy, lies in a critical condition." Dr. Hill being considerably in advance of the party, was uninjured. Subsequent accounts confirm the death of Russel and Isaiah Hill, John Sellers and Wm. Crisman. End of post. Sandra Hurt-Norris Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.