KILLINGS ON THE POUND
By James Taylor Adams
As listed for me in George Austin’s
Store
at The Pound one day in 1930, if I remember alright, by One-Eyed Dock
Mullins.
Dock seemed very proud of the record. He had, himself, accounted
for one of the killings and since then poor old Dock decided to add
another
name to the list by blowing his own brains out. I remember George
said “Dock, I don’t think that is anything to be proud of.”
George
Austin died shortly after that time.
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Elias Collier killed Brack Phelps
on North Fork
about 1890.
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Dock Howell killed William
Addington at Donkey.
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Sam Craft killed Noah Sowards about
1900 at Donkey.
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Ed Hall killed Wid Moore and Horace
(or Harve)
Wright at Donkey.
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Dr. Marshall B. Taylor, Calvin and
Henan Fleming
killed Ira Mullins, Mrs. Mullins, Wilson Mullins, John Chappell and
Greenberry
Moore at Killing Rock on Pine Mountain.
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Jerome (Fish) Gilliam killed John
Hall on Indian
Creek.
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Em. Swindall, Nelson Mullins,
Martin Sowards
and John Marion Hall killed Pat Cox on Pine Mountain.
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Mack Wright killed Ed Cox in South
of the Mountain.
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Arch Hopkins killed John Marion
Hall near Donkey.
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Harry McFall killed George Sowards
at Foot of
the Mountain.
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Ed Hall was killed at Donkey maybe
by Arch Hopkins
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Rufus Phipps killed Foot of
Mountain by unknown
party.
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Tolby Hall killed unknown man at
Mud Hole (or
maybe it was Hall who was killed.)
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McKinley Waldron (Waliron) was
killed or killed
somebody at Foot of Mountain.
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Gaston Mullins killed Marshall
Mullins on Bold
Camp.
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Clifton Branham killed his wife,
Nan Branham
on Mill Creek and was hanged for it.
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Bill Tutt killed Joel Sturgill on
North Fork.
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Will Wallen killed Monroe
Pennington on North
Fork.
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Edmond Bolling killed his father,
Floyd Bolling
on North Fork.
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Sol Osborne killed Joe Short at The
Pound.
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Edmond Bolling killed Sampy Short
on North Fork.
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Bob Mullins killed Will Mullins,
his brother,
on Bold Camp.
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Elbert Hale killed Daniel Short on
Bold Camp.
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John Bogus (Baugess) killed his
wife, who was
a Mullins, on Bold Camp.
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Bronson Waddell killed John
Steffey in
South of Mountain.
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Edmond Bolling killed George Vaughn
on South
Fork.
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Milford Hubbard killed Jerry
Hubbard, his brother-in-law,
on Laurel Fork.
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At the same time Willard Hubbard
killed his brother,
Milford Hubbard at same place.
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Enoch Wright killed Preston Bentley
at Donkey.
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Walter Killen killed Charlie Powers
on Bold Camp.
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George Branham killed Dave Fleming
on Mill Creek.
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Lee Sloane killed Eugene Sowards in
South of
Mountain.
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Carlton Boggs killed Arch Mullins
near Foot of
Mountain.
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Carlton Boggs killed Johce Mullins
at Donkey.
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Nancy (or Nannie) Jane Mullins
killed Jude Mullins,
her husband at Donkey.
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Dock Mullins killed Carlton Boggs
at Foot of
Mountain.
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Jonce Mullins above, killed
by Carlton
Boggs, was Dock’s only son.
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Rudolph Belcher killed Elbert Baker
on North
Fork.
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Clint Wyatt and his son
killed Tom Hawkins
at Foot of Mountain.
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Picket and other officers killed
Jarvey Mullins
on Birchfield.
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Some people killed Ira Patton at
the same place.
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Douglas Dorton killed Henry Dorton,
his brother,
on Bold Camp.
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Willie Addington and others killed
George Tiiman
on Indian Creek.
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Son Gibson and John Cox killed
Green (maybe not
Green) Branham on Indian Creek.
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A mob, killed Leonard Wood, a
Negro, in Pound
Gap.
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Two Negroes were killed in the
Combs Construction
Camp, at Foot of Mountain, by another Negro.
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Bobby Qualls killed Henderson Adams
on South
Fork.
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Morgan Mullins killed Hark Willis
Howell on Bold
Camp.
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A man named Lewis killed a man
named Fletcher
at Horse Gap.
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A man named Shupe killed a man
whose name Dock
could not remember on Indian Mountain.
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Columbus Craft killed Bill
Culbertson at Mud
Hole.
Source: James Taylor Adams
Collection,
Clinch Valley College Library, Wise, VA.
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