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Bad Men and Devils
We all love to read about our Ancestors who were labeled "Bad"
and "Devil" because of their outlaw exploits. Below you will find a list of
those who carried the moniker that told the world they indeed were bad men, not
to be trifled with.
I. Bad
John Hall s/o Lee Hall
and Eliza Little
II. Bad
John Wright (aka Devil John) s/o Joel Ellis Wright and
Eliza Agnes Bates
III. Bad Lewis Hall s/o
William
Riley Hall and Nancy Higgins
IV. Bad Talt Hall
s/o David Hall
and Anna Johnson
V. Bad Tom Smith
s/o Richard Smith and
Mary Polly Kelly
VI.
Claiborne "Clabe" Jones s/o John and Rebecca Jones (some say s/o Nathaniel
Jones and Nancy Ray)
VII. Devil Jim Turner
s/o James Turner and Elizabeth Clay
VIII. Marshall
Benton "Red Fox" Taylor s/o
William P Taylor and Mary
Polly Stallard
Feuds, Lynching and Murders
I.
French and Eversole Feud in
relation to Bad Tom Smith
II.
Killing Rock or Pound
Gap Massacre
III.
Martin Van Buren Bates
and the story of his vengeance for the killing of his brother,
James Bates
IV. Murder and Mayhem in
Kentucky
V.
Reynolds - Wright Feud
VI.
The Lynching of Leonard
Woods

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