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Julia Lucas Newman and family #RossCounty #OH #LincolnCountyFeud #Appalachia #photos #history

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Glenna Epling recalls Boney Lucas

Glenna Epling recalls #BoneyLucas. #LincolnCountyFeud #history #Appalachia #crime

One of the more interesting sources on the Cain Adkins family was Glenna Epling, a schoolteacher and great-granddaughter of Boney Lucas in Wayne, West Virginia. Glenna told Brandon by telephone that the trouble between Paris Brumfield and Boney Lucas started when Boney was falsely accused of messing with a fifteen-year-old Brumfield girl. He was killed by Brumfield after he said something “out of…

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In Search of Ed Haley 304

Daisy Ross concludes her family memories. #JohnHartford #history #amwriting #WestVirginia

Things got kind of quiet after that. I asked Faye if we were wearing her mother out and she said, “No, I don’t think so. She sits there and… Of course, she makes quilts. She’s made twenty since the first of the year. We’ve got them stacked upstairs. She made sixty-four the year before last. Last year she only made fifty-four. I don’t know how many she’ll make this year. She makes them upstairs.…

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In Search of Ed Haley 302

Daisy Ross continues her account of the #LincolnCountyFeud #Appalachia #history #amwriting

I asked Daisy again about her mother’s escape from Harts Creek.

“Grandpaw and the oldest boy had to come on out and come down into Wayne County to save their lives,” she said.

This seeming abandonment of his family in such a dark time appeared to be a blemish on Cain’s otherwise “spotless record.” I thought about that and said, “Seems to me like the safest way to get everybody out was to get the…

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In Search of Ed Haley 300

Daisy Ross speaks more about #GreenMcCoy. #Appalachia #LincolnCountyFeud #history #amwriting

We next inquired about Green McCoy. We were particularly curious about why he left Kentucky and settled in Harts.

“I don’t know why he went up there,” Daisy said. “He was just playing music and started running around, I guess.”

Green and Spicie had a love for music in common.

Daisy said her mother “always liked music” and sung “from the time she was a little girl.” She “could sing any part of…

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Daisy Ross Interview in Kenova, WV

In 1995, #BrandonKirk visits Daisy Ross in #Kenova, #WestVirginia. #Appalachia #history #LincolnCountyFeud

Meanwhile, as I churned up new details about Ed Haley, Brandon was busy chasing down leads on the Milt Haley story in West Virginia. One crisp December day he visited Daisy Ross, the aged daughter of Spicy McCoy, who lived in a nice two-story house at Kenova, a pretty little town just west of Huntington. It was Brandon’s first face-to-face contact with Green McCoy’s descendants and he was anxious…

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In Search of Ed Haley 194

The #murder table and Boney Lucas' identity are discovered. #Appalachia #feud #genealogy

I said, “That’s the very same story that Ed Haley’s people told. They would have just as much shame about the incident as Ed Haley’s folks. I wonder if Spicie and Emma got together and got their stories straight before they went their separate ways? I…

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A Fine Time 98

SPICIE McCoy spent October 9 – her twenty-third birthday – worrying about her husband. For the past two weeks she had waited faithfully with little Sherman in their house. Still no word from Green… Ordinarily, this would not be cause for alarm. Green…

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