Hi All, I`m kin to the Whites. I did`nt get to see this. Do you know any more about wher to find informatiom. Barker, White ,Penley,Pennington,Lee,Napier, etc. Carol ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edgar A. Howard" <swvaroot@earthlink.net> To: <SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 9:55 PM Subject: [SW_VA] Clay Co. war > Volks, > > Did ya see the History Ch. show Vendettas? It was about E. Ky mtn > feuds. Baker vs. White? Clay Co. I think the county seat is > Manchester. That's where the yankee I knew in the army went > home with a guy from there. The NYC yankee came back white as a > sheet mumbling something about the shootings. > > The bad part was that a Howard, Jim Howard, was mentioned. I'm > suing!!! <g> That must be a different Howards. It seems that a > Sheriff White murdered a Baker as he stood in front of the > courthouse. But a different man confessed on his death bed. I would > love to read a book on all this. They said when it ended during WW > II over 150 people had been killed. > > One historian says it was the isolation of the mtn, the mix of the > Indian and Scots-Irish blood and the Civil War that caused this > fighting and feuding. > > They said the murderers became preachers later and there were > death bed comfessions. > > -eddie > . . . for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; > the plague is begun. - Num. 16:46 > > > ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== > #6 HELP is available from the sysop/owner anytime at: > swvaroot@swva.net > > > >