Hi Folks, There are many family traditions of the Civil War era in Wyo Co. In transcribing Church records, It was strongly noticed that all of the families with adveriances during the war, returned to worship shortly at the close of this war. Here is something by Rev. Goode, hopefully others will submit simular traditions. Lee Hash John Allen Jr. "Crap Allen" married Elizabeth Laferty and lived up on the M.P. Mcgraw place near the Clens Fork Gap. In 1861, his brother-in-law, Ralph Laferty with some of Lt. Ferd Neumans men (Union), captured Allen and took him prisoner down to Chas. Stewarts on Laurel. There Allen was given in charge to Laferty, Dick Elkins, Owen Smith and john J. Mitchell who were to deliver Allen to the Union Forces in Kanawah County as a prisoner of war. In Walnut Gap on the Wyoming Boone County line they told Allen that he might run for his life. But as he started to do so, Laferty and Elkins shot and killed him and left him down in the woods on the Boone side where he fell. Wm. Agra Cook, David Cooke and Green Sizemore who were bringing salt from the Kanawah Salt Works, met the men without Allen at the mouth of Short Creek in Boone County. When these me came to Clear Fork they were told that Allen, the prisoner, was with these men when they passed the home of Lewis Alda Cook. A search was made and the body found in the woods about 100 yards from Walnut Gap. William Stewart and David Cooke returned, brought the body to the Wyoming side and buried it nine days after he was shot.