09 Thursday Mar 2017
Posted in Culture of Honor
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Appalachia, Blackburn Davis, crime, Farmington, feud, feuds, genealogy, history, J.B. Smith, James Provence, West Virginia, Wheeling Intelligencer
Wheeling (WV) Intelligencer, 1 September 1882.
Writings from my travels and experiences. High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water. Mark Twain
This site is dedicated to the collection, preservation, and promotion of history and culture in Appalachia.
Genealogy and History in North Carolina and Beyond
A site about one of the most beautiful, interesting, tallented, outrageous and colorful personalities of the 20th Century
Brandon Ray Kirk 
This story has long fascinated me as I am related to one of the people involved. The boy who shot Blackburn Davis was only 19. He left West Virginia and moved as far away as he could get. Eventually all of his family left, too. The story of the feud has been lost to the family and without newspaper reports we would not know about it.