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Ben Walker Deed to Hezekiah "Kiah" Adkins (1887)

Ben Walker Deed to Hezekiah “Kiah” Adkins (1887)

Ben Walker Deed to Hezekiah “Kiah” Adkins, 175 acres, Green Shoal Creek, 1887, Lincoln County Clerk’s Office, Hamlin, WV. Note: Cain Adkins, who notarized this deed, was a key figure in the Lincoln County Feud, which was underway in 1887. In October of 1889, Ben Walker buried Mr. Adkins’ son-in-law, Green McCoy. Note: Ellen Ferguson and George Dickinson were African-American residents of Harts…

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Mariah (Vance) Adkins Obituary (1931) #Stiltner #WayneCounty #WV #HartsCreek #LincolnCounty #LincolnCountyFeud #history #Appalachia #genealogy

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Winchester and Cain Adkins, Jr. #LincolnCountyFeud #Appalachia #history #photos #fiddlers

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Harts Creek Area Preachers (1872-1876)

Harts Creek Area Preachers (1872-1876) #LoganCounty #WestVirginia #LincolnCounty #history #genealogy

The following list of Logan County marriages for the period of 1872 to 1876 reveals the names of preachers operating in the Harts Creek area. This is a “working list” and will be updated. The source for this material is “Marriages-Births-Deaths, 1872-1892,” pages 26-32, which is located at the Logan County Clerk’s Office in Logan, WV. Many thanks to the county clerks and their employees who have…

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Cain Adkins military record (1861)

Cain Adkins military record (1861) #CivilWar #WayneCounty #WestVirginia #history #genealogy #lincolncountyfeud #bloodinwestvirginia

Cain Adkins military record, 129th Virginia Militia, Carter’s Company, 1861. Cain Adkins, a resident of Adkins Mill in Wayne County, WV, later lived on Harts Creek in Lincoln County

Cain Adkins military record, 129th Virginia Militia, Carter’s Company, 1861. Cain Adkins, a resident of Adkins Mill in Wayne County, WV, later lived on Harts Creek in Lincoln County

Cain Adkins military record, 129th…

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The Adkins Family

The Adkins Family, a popular #Gospel group in #WayneCounty, #WestVirginia #music #LincolnCountyFeud #author #bookbuzz

The Adkins Family, operating out of Wayne County, West Virginia, is one of the Tri-State’s most talented, well-known, and enduring Gospel groups. I’m proud to say their ancestors once lived on the West Fork of Harts Creek in Lincoln County. You can learn more about their family’s rich heritage in my book, “Blood in West Virginia: Brumfield v. McCoy.” In the meantime, follow their Facebook page.…

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In Search of Ed Haley 319

#BrandonKirk visits Lillian Ray on #HartsCreek in 1996. #Appalachia #history #amwriting #music

A little later, Brandon visited Lillian Ray, a seventy-something-year-old daughter of Cecil Brumfield who lived in a beautiful two-story house on the Smokehouse Fork of Harts Creek. Lilly, he discovered, had a lot of the old Dingess family photographs. To Brandon’s surprise, there were several thick-paged Victorian velvet-covered albums full of tintypes and a few boxes of sepia images on…

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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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