The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-08
THE MOTHER-lN-LAW
i FEUD IN KENTUCKY.
The Consequences Of Will Turner';
Shooting OF Strong Minded
Woman IN the Arm,

'speakn' Of Breathitt county and the
late little excitement down theah' said
the Kentucky Colonel ID you heah ai,yt hing
mo- Of ~ Anybody else killed: No.
III it had happened in HarodshurE II
wouldn't a ended so sudden. | can promise
you that. Iapose now you don't remembah
the mother .in-law teud Of Breathitt county
Nevsh heard oft? One Of the mos famous
fetidS az that paht Of he vuhId
"Praps YOU didn't know II hy that name
: Some called II ne Howard White reud
othahs the Garratd- Baker feud ofhahs
still the BakerTurner teud. and still olhahS
the Garrard Baker White Turner Howard
feud atogethah 70 the -ayin of line. IVA,
among the immediate friend4 Of the de-
ceased families IT was know q a. the mot her
in-law teud AZ tell YOU
II you'd 90 through some o. them theGh
mountain cemeteries yon'd see grave attah
grave decorated with wooden boards with
I his lnscripshun on en- Nahlah 10 the
cause Of he mot her-in.'aw"
Mothers-in law kick up a good deal u
rumpus in all pants Of the wuhld but thr
one didn't do thing 10 Breathilt county
As | say. the Garrards and the ~ kprs
had about killed each uthah m and we're
waItin' 10 the uhdten 10 grow 10 shootin'
! size sos TO font niue the puformance
when the White Towards took aturn Then
come the Baker Whites then come tho
Howard Turner's and he reud oft he mother,
in-aw
This was whu oocuhd Wilkerson
Howard and Viii Turner had hot wubds
about something or othah. di-remembah
jest whut, and VIII Turner he went de-
liberal ely o Nilkerson Howard house and
shot his mother-in-law Shot her in he
ahrn. No. not outright JEST in he ahm.
Nov. WilkelsoH Howard's mother-in-
law was one Of them tail. marrow cheated,
! angular, raw boned hoarsP voiced wimrnin
/ whit natchuily runs everything in sight
/ Wlkerson. he couldn't call his soul his own
| 70 his ole mother-inlaw His wife va nj
much hettah. Neithah vah his Children
/ The ole lady hsppuned 10 he quiet about
that time Want Savin' nuthIn a tall
Jest settin' in The coiuah of the fiahplaoe
: smokin' her ole cob pipe and studyin' up
| devilment 70 the ne II day in ell probability.
/ Had done all she could 70 that day and was
| Resin on her aims. when VIII Turner shot
| one on EN-
Then he liz out and II was high time
! They say theah nevah was madden man in
! Breathitt county than WilLerson Howard
was that night He called all the Howards
/ together and theah was sDmethn doin
]
, That's all theah was 70 that
Fust and last that little shootin Of Will
! Turner's cost Kentucky all IN all about tiftv-
I nine or sixty lives To say nuthin Of the
/ money spent in lawsuits a-tryin' 10 convict
the pabties whut participated in the various
/ and sundry wars that ragged Q II around that
mother-in-a 70 yeahs and veahs and yeahs
| in Breathtt county.
/ But to begin with with constable Of
/ their own choosn the Towards ten on EN-.
! includin' a Sheriff whui belonged TO the
/ family and a ledge or two, they yet out
with the purpose of KILN viii Turner ON
! sight under covah OF a written warrunt 10
| his arrest on the change Of shootin' with
| intent to kill ithont KILN
But a. | said befo' VIII got nklin'
! Of 1t and III out He went 10 Texas and
stayed theah To- a solid yeah while the
Towards killed OF his immediate fam "
keep up the interest
4Wilkerson Howard was ve'v matter NJ
fact about plannin his campaign. Hs
! got his men togethHh and organized
| goin by shootin' right and lef' at anything
he thought had the look Of a Turner or a
relative or sympathizer Of pc Wills
He killed so many. as mattah Of fac,
go through a suit fo'm of havin' himself
tried TO manslaughter Got a picked
guard Of ahmed relatives and friends and
filed NJ the dollhouse with EN- They
| invariably give him bail and set him free
Whut ledge wouldn't with so many walkin
arsenals about ready and willin TO tar and
feather him and burn down the cot house
and the town II he didn't?
It's techy thing bein Jecige in Breathitt
county. or II was in the good ole times
Then by'm by. VIII Turner he come
back frum Texas Texas amt no sort ~
state To- a kentuckiau, bawn and brought
up on fab watah and double barrelled
shotguns and they killed him on sight
ha'I l,N,,.a ~, h... ~
might a ended then and theah. but he
had relatives not many hut a few that
Nikerson Howard had let around in spots
70 tahRets These relatives took IL VI and
spread that feud 60 far and wide that a.
I've explained II got so many names it
would make you huarse 10 call their car
riages through a megaphone
And all about a mother-in-l law, you eay
You thought them there fends mostly
stahted with some pretty gur a marvin
Of a opposin' PATTY. or some fellah runnin'
away with the daughter Of the man his
father had killed. But with mother-in-
lawl
They do good many original things in
special rule for nuthin eHceptin', Of co-e,
in the matiah Of shootin Take aim
Fiah' is their special rule TO that.
But you ah right reckon and it was an
unusual thing, thai mother-in law feud
and I'll tell YOU the reason they 40 bit
terly ovah II. had it direct frlIm a pus-
sonal friend Of Wilkers0n Towards whut
wore a mailed shirt and got close enough
70 him occasionally to converse on mo or
less intimate f,Ims
Docs seam strange thing TO me he
says to Howard, 70 you TO kick up sech
terrible rumpus ovah yo'h mother-in-laE.
Sech an awful row nvolvin putty much
everybody in Breaihitt county Jest because
felah shot your mother-in-law in the
ahm. Seem s 70 me IL don't stand 20 reason
somehow y otbah. II don't atall.
With that my friend says Wilkerson
Howard fixed his eyes on the ground vey
broodin laik
That's jest IL says he: he shot her in
the ahm II he'd shot her outright 'nuf
said Theah wouldn't bin no mother-in-
Law feud in Breathitt county
Married Another Man.
From the BGhnors sur
Snn.n Naara The hisinnss Of hunting