The following has been abstracted, by permission, from the Kentucky Explorer, Volume 15, Number 2, June, 2000, Charles Hayes, Jr., Editor and & Publisher. I was so fascinated by this article that I contact Mr. Hayes who knows me from various articles I have contributed over the years. This is subtitled "A Bloody Record Over Which Lovers of Peace May Ponder." It was originally run as a newspaper article 31 Dec 1878 in the Louisville Commercial newspaper. They kept a record of all the violent deaths in Kentucky for the year 1878. Since so many counties and names are recorded, I thought this might help those of you would not only would enjoy it, but might find a missing relative along the way. I have added county names where possible. I have shown the wording as shown and mean no disrespect for using the word "colored". January 1878: 14th: John Robertson stabbed John Harlis in Lebanon (Marion Co.) Wife killedJohn Snow in Allen Co KY. with an axe. Dave Hall, Beaver Creek, gambling quarrel. Citizen show Louis Hall, Beaver Creek - had murdered his cousin. 16th: Henry Hufnagle, officer, shot John Welse at Covington (Kenton Co.) Mob shot Tom Tavner, colored, in Fayette Co. 22nd: Lucy Stepp, colored, shot James F. Jordan at Richmond; he clubbed her for circulating false reports. (Madison Co.) 25th: James Wolfe killed John Brooks with a rifle at Hopkinsville. (Christian Co.) February 1878: 1st: Hiram Hooper shot Obediah False at Vanceburg. (Lewis Co.) 5th: George Ballard, colored, shot John Giner, colored, at Paducah. ( McCracken Co.) 11th: Antisbrother show James Smiley at Grayson; an old grudge. (Carter). 15th: Weedon D. Gay show James Anderson at Mt. Sterling; quarrel about real estate. (Montgomery Co). 16th: Beve Oldham show Wm. Cooley in Fulton County; quarrel. 20th: George Jenkins killed Pat Gilroy at Henderson; stabbed to death because he had failed to complete a ditching contract. (Henderson Co). 21st: Joseh Frazer shot Colonel Joseph M. Harks at Lawrenceburg; quarrel. (Anderson Co.) March 1878: 5th: John Park, colored, stabbed George Franklin, colored, at Somerset; quarrel. (Pulaski Co). 12th: Mike Ely shot at Hustonville; election row. (Lincoln Co.) 15th: William Coleman, black, shot Cask Davis, colored, at Frankfort; gambling quarrel. (Franklin Co.) 25th: Clay Clelland shot Jim Turner at Salvisa; quarrel about 15 cents. (Mercer Co.) 27th: William Barnes shot John Stephens in Menifee County because Stephens accused him of intimacy with his sister and whipped him for it the night before. 29th: William Hogan mashed the skull of his child near McKinney. (Lincoln Co.) 31st: Charles Cook and William Brackett killed William Marlow and his wife near Louisville; cut off their heads and burnedthem, because they were witnesses Against him. (Jefferson Co.). April 1878: 1st: Dick Bryant, colored, stabbed Aleck Johnson at Covington for calling him names. (Kenton Co.) 2nd: Henry T. Betts shot Sanford Powell at Rogers' Gap; drunken quarrel. 3rd: Clay Clelland shot Jim Turner near Harrodsburg because he dunned him for 15 cents he owed him. (Mercer Co.) 7th: Henry Noel shot Isaiah Gabbard at Corinthville; old feud. 8th: Posse shot Thomas Michael in Breathitt County, escaping arrest. Thomas Watson and wife killed their child at Brookville. (Bracken Co. 9th: Harrison Keety stabbed James Stewart; drunken dance at Bear Creek. 10th: Charles Trust kicked his sick grandchild to death at Whitesburg. (Letcher Co.) 11th: Wm. Allen killed George Alexander in Kentucky, opposite Leavenworth, Indiana, with a fence rail, because he broke the engagement of marriage with his daughter. 15th: Luther Lee killed George Rogers with treadle at Lexington, because he talked about his wife. (Fayette Co.) 17th: Thomas Warner stabbed Daniel Warner near Bergen; quarrel about accounts. (Mercer Co.) 21st: John Shannon, policeman, shot Edward Smith, black, at Lexington for fast driving. (Fayette Co.) Thomas Eubank killed Bud Warren with a hoe in Buffalo, quarrel about Profits and sale of illicit still. (Larue Co.) Bud Warren killed Thomas Eubank with a hoe at Buffalo; quarrel about Division of profits of an illicit distillery. 26th: Mob shot Asa Roark in Allen County; revenge for act done during war. May 1878: 13th: Joe Lewis, colored, shot Joe Thompson at Sadieville. (Scott Co.). 20th: Jim Young stabbed --- Gibson at Hayden's Corner; quarrel at funeral. (Clark Co.). Colored man shot Dan Jackson, colored, at Negro festival, Herveytown. Hezekiah Hensley shot John J. Evans at Mt. Sterling, grudge. (Montgomery). 22nd: David Thornburg killed Samuel Gray in Floyd County; family feud. 24th: James Dugan shot Mary Meagher in Louisville; she was his mistress; and he was drunk. (Jefferson Co.). 25th: Enoch Wolsey, Jr., shot John Muse at Somerset for talking about him. (Pulaski Co.) 26th: Henson shot Ebenezer Renfroe at Dallas; grudge. 27th: John Corns stabbed Frank McAllister at Greenup. (Greenup Co.) Freeman Farris, colored, shot Robert Land at Lancaster; drunken quarrel. (Garrard Co.) 29th: Mattie Thurman, colored, killed her child at Harrodsburg. (Mercer Co.) 30th: M. F. Clark killed, with a hoe, Dan Switzer near Stonewall; quarrel about a team. 31st: Dannecke shot in a house of prostitution at Livingston. (Rockcastle Co.) June 1878: 4th: Asa Gordon killed Samuel Preston, with a spoke, in Clay County, because he struck him with a switch. 6th: Mrs. Andy Carlisle choked her child in Larue County. Jack Atherton threw his child on its back, breaking it; also killed his 13- Year old son with a hatchet, Larue Co. William Howard shot Ed Collins in Mason County; quarrel. 12th: H. Helton shot Edward Cox in Menifee County. 16th: Henry Hammer shot Simon Givens at Danville for calling him an insulting name (Boyle Co.) 18th: Please Overstreet, colored, stabbed Lewis Mays at Hampton. (Livingston Co.) 22nd: Wm. Hicks and Lee Arnold both shot in melee at Mt. Vernon. (Rockcastle Co.) James Bowman stabbed James Davis near Richmond, because Davis Accused him of stealing his wood. (Madison Co.) 24th: Abbott Watson cut George Willett near New Haven; quarrel. (Nelson Co.) 26th: J. Garthey, colored, stabbed David Thomas, colored, at Filmore. (Daviess Co.) July 1878: 1st: Wm. Martin shot Thomas Jones near Lexington; quarrel. (Fayette Co). 2nd: Joe Webster cut Ben Finney, colored, at Walton; Webster was on a drunken spree. (Boone Co.) 4th: Everett Lilley, 18, stabbed Thomas Lilley, 20, his brother, at Owenton; quarrel about working in tobacco. (Owen Co.) 11th: George Meece shot John R. Gardner at Stephenburg; previous quarrel. (Hardin Co.) 13th: Tom Douglas, colored, killed with an ax by his brother on Logan Creek; jealousy. Henry Priesthoff cut Joseph Flitter at Covington; quarrel. (Kenton Co.) Walter Kavanaugh, colored, stabbed John Reed at Lancaster; drunken Quarrel at a dance. (Garrard Co.) William Smith shot Nathan Douglas in Nelson County; guarrel at a Negro Dance. 14th: Jacob Doutman shot Corbin Freebuck near Cynthiana; quarrel. (Harrison Co.) 17th: Kiser brained --- Overton with a hoe in Grayson County. 24th: George Hall shot David Simpson at Mt. Sterling feud. (Montgomery Co.) 25th: Sam Lancaster, colored, stabbed James Button at LaGrange; quarrel. (Oldham Co.). Dan Morgan killed Tom Blankenship and brother near Maysville; trying To get into Morgan's establishment without paying. (Mason Co.) 26th: Wm. Farmer killed, with a rock, a German at Sulphur Springs; quarrel. (Ohio Co.) 27th: George Hume shot Hick Burns in Anderson Co.; quarrel about 95 cents. 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