Thank you. Your story, together with the article in this quarter's newsletter, leads me to conclude that a blockader is a bootlegger. I guess the code of the hills was "you don't mess with a man's coon dog or his still." I had a relative whose dog bit the sheriff, the sheriff shot the dog, and the relative shot the sheriff. And people think life in the hills was boring :-) **************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598)

I know of two brothers in Surry Co. that shot and killed a tinner in the early 1900s. A tinner was a person that fabricated or repaired whiskey stills. The problem was this particular tinner would work on stills and then turn his clients into the sheriff. This tinner was supposedly?killed by the brothers.?The brothers were arrested, convicted in Surry and executed Raleigh. Dale Cook