Ironic--------There must have been a lot of that going on around the turn of the century in 1900. The fact is, those people, started making legal "spirits". Then Big Brother stopped them and took away their livelihood. A lot of people were starving and losing everything they had. That caused lots of people in Wilkes and Yadkin County to migrate to other cities to find a job and seek shelter and food to keep their families together. I do not know the John Cheek mentioned in the web page we read. However, I did in fact have a great uncle in Yadkin County,in the Knobs twn., who did kill a man at a still, over a money issue. He was sentenced to 17 years in prison and actually served about 12 years and was pardoned. He came back to Brooks Cross Roads, opened a barber shop and had a very successful business for several years. That is one of my missing pieces of a puzzle, in that I cannot find his first wife, Lulu Hubbard. I found his second wife, Cordia Chambers. I also found his son by his first wife, Lulu Hubbard, John Marvin Cheek. Someday, I hope to find ,Lulu. In a message dated 2/28/2008 1:54:51 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, hdalecook@aol.com writes: 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 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCSURRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************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)