The following has been abstracted, by permission, from the Kentucky Explorer, Volume 15, Number 2, June, 2000, Charles Hayes, Jr., Editor and & Publisher. "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. I appreciate all the positive responses I have received to part one and glad that this gave many of you a definite lead to follow in your searches. I am not glorying in magnifying murder. These murders are our history whether we like it or not and the names need to be preserved as much as those who were massacred in the early settlement days by the Indians, or those killed in the various wars. My apologies to any whom this may offend. Again, I have put the county names where known. August 1878: 3rd: Wm. Gordon, Mace Gordon and J. M. Thompson shot Duane Roach near Frankfort; quarrel about election of magistrates. (Franklin). 6th: James Bowling stabbed Millard Kennedy at Grayson, because he beat him wrestling. (Carter). 10th: Unknown shot George Anderson near Leesburg. (Harrison). 12th: John C. Hiser cut Frank Gatewood (colored) at Winchester, drunk and took the Negro for a Negro he had a grudge against. (Clark). 15th: H. N. Holdsworth shot Phillip Arnold at Elizabethtown. (Hardin). 16th: Reuben H. Gale shot James Overty in Robertson County; feud about a woman. Joe O. Bailey shot Sam O. Field at Lexington; scuffle for a watermelon. (Fayette). Kid Barker shot Wm. Carl in Butler County; quarrel. 18th: Dennis Mohon shot Philip Hoog near Louisville; stealing grapes from Archbishop McCloskey. (Jefferson). 21st: Lot Walker shot Pat Nolan at Virginia Point; quarrel. 22nd: Duke Fleming killed Sarah Wright, colored, with loaded cane at Cynthiana; died the 29th. (Harrison). 26th: George, Albert, and Wm. Ratliff shot J. W. Riggs and J. W. Luttril for the rape of of Mrs. George R--- on the 22nd at Princeton. (Caldwell). Tom Reegon and B. Tweedy killed Mr. Lucinda Johnson at Elizabethtown. (Hardin). 28th: Thomas Hughes stabbed Elijah Fraley, brother-in-law, near Sandy Hook; quarrel. (Elliott). 30th: Ann Logan, colored, killed her child by drowning at Cynthiana. (Harrison). September 1878: 6th: James Drake shot Patrick Ryan near Lexington; quarrel about right-of-way over Drake's land. (Fayette). 7th: Bart Simmons shot James White in Clay County. A Negro killed John Bailey at Monticello in a quarrel over wages. (Wayne). 9th: Roderick killed near Loretto; mistaken for somebody else. (Marion). 17th: Three tramps killed Mrs. Kassender at Sterling Run. 19th: Jim Coney killed, with a stone, Henry Jenkins near Sandy Hook. (Elliott). 23rd: Robert Richardson killed Martin Harlow near Kingston; pitchfork, quarrell. (Madison). 25th: John W. Cabbell stabbed Frank J. Harrison near Lebanon; quarrel about $1.25. (Marion). 29th: John Carney killed Tom Anderson with a boulder at Covington. (Kenton). Fannie Pitman, colored, killed her child at Frankfort. (Franklin). October 1878: 1st: Del Graves stabbed Myron Potts at Lexington. (Fayette). Jerry Burnett shot Wm. C. Burnett, his nephew, at Kingston; quarrel About wagon wheels. (Madison). Martha Hedges, colored, cut with a knife a McKinney at Brush Creek; to protect her own life. (Green or Knox). Thomas Staten shot John Daniel at White Sulphur Springs. (Scott?) 3rd: Mrs. Kane shot her son at Stanford; accidental, fooling with a pistol. (Lincoln). 4th: Unknown shot Thomas Stewart and Miss Annie Stewart near Richmond. (Madison). 8th: --- Catron shot ---Lewis at Somerset; family quarrel. (Pulaski). 9th: C. C. Bronte shot Pete Hamilton in Mercer Co; quarrel about money matters. Mr. Deering was shot in Allen County. 11th: Neal stabbed Mrs. Gebhardts at Burk City; she interfered in a quarrel between Neal and her son. 12th: --- killed John Russell, colored, at Georgetown; quarrel. (Fayette or Scott). Bose Powell killed Henry Royce by stabbing near Richmond. (Madison). Dick and Alfred Stewart killed Martha Stewart near Richmond. (Madison). 14th: William Smith shot Robert Saunders near Richmond; gambling quarrel. 15th: Isaac Durham shot Alex Shipman, colored, at Harrodsburg; trying to John Redman shot Nat N. Smith near Duck Creek; quarrel about business. 19th: Jason Little killed his wife in Breathitt County. 21st: Marshall Maddox shot Henry Adams, black, trying to arrest, at Shelbyville. (Shelby). 22nd: David Yates, colored, shot Charley Wright, colored, brother-in-law, at Buffalo; quarrel. (Larue or Perry). --- Newton shot --- Chafflin at Scottsville because he ran off with his wife. (Allen). To be concluded next week. (c) Copyright 22 June 2000, Sandra K. 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