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.