The Greene–Jones War was an Appalachian Mountain clan feud in the United States reputed to be second only to that of the Hatfield–McCoy feud in scale, duration, and number of people killed. At least sixteen people, including one child, were killed during the course of the feud, and many others were seriously injured. The feud took place primarily in the border areas of Hawkins County (formerly part of Sullivan County, North Carolina, one of the earliest Tennessee counties and said to have a large Melungeon population), Washington County, Claiborne County, Hancock County, Tennessee (created when Hawkins County, Tennessee was subdivided), and Lee County, Virginia, not far from Cumberland Gap, the narrow Appalachian Mountain pass sometimes called The Wilderness Road leading into Kentucky.
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The Melungeons I guess were just in mention. I find that bunch intresting. I looked up Greene and Jones and I don't believe they were part of the Melungeon clan. Intresting story regardless.
ReplyDeleteIt's Sullivan County, TN. Johnson City is the county seat.
ReplyDeleteThere's something mean in those Scotch - Irish that settled in the Appalachians.... Family feuds are not a thing around here... Hell most can't stay mad for a day.
ReplyDeleteWe have Creoles, High Yellow (Yella) and Redbones... I had never heard of Melungeons before ..
JD
Easy there, cowboy. Here's two Louisiana feuds for you.
Deletehttps://louisiana-anthology.org/texts/banner/banner--claibourne_parish_feud.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones%E2%80%93Liddell_feud
That's a crazy read, the word and sentence structure is so different than what we use today..
DeleteAlso Claiborne Parish is way the fuck up in North Louisiana.. Kinda like you said about your proximity to Kentucky and we consider it more Arkansas than Louisiana so we ain't responsible, lol..
Maybe interesting to you since you're a history buff is the parish is named after the first governor of Louisiana after the Louisiana Purchase..
JD
I notice the term melungeon is coming back. Recently I have seen in in at least three places whereas I do not recall having seen it in decades.
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