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Review:
BLOOD FEUDS details historical accounts of infamous feuds and murders of old-time Kentucky. Set in Eastern and Central Kentucky during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, BLOOD FEUDS is a graphic history of these bloody tragedies of long ago. (Excerpt ed from FAMOUS KENTUCKY TRAGEDIES AND TRIALS by L.F. Johnson.)
"Would - - - but I might venge my cousin's death! - We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not."
Wm. Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
EXCERPT:
After the assassination of James B. Marcus business in Jackson became paralyzed, the residents of the town remained at home after dark and the streets were deserted. It was claimed at that time that at least forty deaths had resulted directly and indirect ly from the Hargis-Cockrell feud during the two years prior to Marcum's death. He left a wife and five children ranging in age from seventeen years to fifteen months. He had three married sisters living in Jackson at that time. The only words uttered by h im after being shot were, " My God, they have killed me."
Second Printing