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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2024
- Appalachias Deadliest Feud: The Underwood HolBrook War #appalachia #appalachian #Cartercountywar #underwoodwar
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I own 60 acres on the Blue Ridge eastern slope in Rappahannock County, Va. I inherited it from my mother, who had inherited it from her father. Her father was an O'Daugherty born in County Cork, who homesteaded and eventually had 45 dairy cows and a thriving farm in the bottom 20. Tough as old shoe leather and the most honest and principled man I ever knew, next to my father..
Strong 💪 bloodlines
He was a Corkman, Cork is referred to as “the rebel county”. I have family in County Kilkenny who are also dairy farmers.
Great Heritage 👊
Be proud of the strength walking around with you.
You are so lucky that you inherited 60 acres! It's something that many people dream about, but most will never see their dreams come true.
I've heard about the Hatfields and McCoys most of my life but this is the first I've heard of the Holbrooks and Underwoods in my 84+ years. Thanks for another great story.
A heck of a nearly forgotten story
My great grandfather was an Underwood who married a Holbrook. And yes, the Kentucky/Virginia clans. I’ve never known many Holbrooks, but can verify first hand, and from being one, the Underwoods are a very interesting bunch of characters. Wait ‘til you hear the moonshine stories…
how bout that! Thanks for sharing James
"Wait ‘til you hear the moonshine stories…"
Well don't stop there.
Dude this is funny too because every Underwood I've met had been completely wild (I'm from the same area). I remember partying with a dude who had that last name and thinking he was peculiar, but otherwise charming and fun to be around. About a week later I saw his face on the cover of the local Busted paper.
French/Eversole feud in Perry County. The old home is still standing in the river. You can find bullets and even arrowheads littering the surface
That must be why my great great great grandpa Hiram Underwood went with his family from Virginia to Kentucky. My great grandma who was his granddaughter, Grace Ann decided to leave Kentucky and never look back. 😜
I found this channel by accident - and I am so glad I did! Thank you a million times. Truly enjoying discovering this history.
glad to have you here!
Much feuding grew out of Bushwhacking during the Civil War and it wasn't just up in the Appalacians, it was all over the South East. It did not die out until the 1920s.
Well said
My father was born in kentucky 1948, i was born in Australia. Only ever visited my fathers family once, so i love to hear these stories.
We are glad to have you here my friend. Incidentally, my sister in law lives in Adelaide
As a Kentucky native, we have a lot of these kind of stories.
You can fall asleep listening to these BC of the calm voice ❤
Thank you Joy- listen to them every night, it supports the channel!
The pic used at 8.21 is the famous post-battle photo of a recuperating John Burns, the old civilian who fought against the Confederates at Gettysburg in 1863,
Good eye!
and I little twit thought Hatfields & McCoys, it couldn't get any worse. Goodness gracious what's going on in that corner of the US. Great storytelling, as always. Thank you for your stories. always great 😘
the Hatfields and McCoy's had nothing on these old boys
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller JD thank you for being simply fabulous
Great historical non fiction, this was well made. Great content
Thank you Sir!
I’ve heard this story many times since my ggggrandfather was a brother to Squire Holbrook.
You know more about it than I do. Excellent research JD. You tell a story better than anyone I’ve ever heard.
Thanks for send me all sorts of information on this story, I learned a lot researching it, hope everyone enjoys it!
and mine is Underwood. Our clan remains close to our kin.
Yeah it's a story alright keeping the divisiveness going into the 21st century in order to take this country down.
I've never seen anyone indicate generations with ggg... before. Great idea. This is the way it should always be done.
@@ArchFundy agreed
You got another winner with this one, JD, and I enjoyed every minute of it! Take care and enjoy your weekend. I'll see ya on the next one!
Thanks Scott, Preciate you!
When someone from Appalachia tells you they're going to get that SOB they mean it. We do tend to bear a grudge 🤣
exactly
Either that or go make a drug run for more meth
Me and my family are from Carter County. It's where I still live today.
Heard about this ol' family feud growing up. Good job! Ur one helluva storyteller!
Thanks Justin!
Wow! I could have actually seen that happening. Mountain folk, look at it like, blood is thicker than water. Mess with one of us, you got us all.
Exactly
I just love these stories that you tell so beautifully. All the best from the land down under.
Thank you Marie!
I can’t get enough of your excellent channel! Looking forward to your next history lesson. ❤️👍🏻
Thank you Catherine
"history lesson"?!
@@oldtimer7635 lets see your video on the topic
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Someone posts a short video, with no sources and some call it a history lesson!
Wow ! Some serious stuff. Thank you for sharing this. Good or bad, men were men in those days and took action. What a difference today.
Exactly, that’s the one thing I drive to show people, that folks back than we’re a completely different breed, and would fight to survive
you have the perfect voice for tales like this.🍻
Thank you so much ❤️
I'm a descendant of the Burchfields of cades cove in the great smoky mountains in Tennessee. Look into the crime they were into in the chestnut flats section of the cove.
if you have any info on this, please email me at theappalachianstoryteller@gmail.com
I love that intro. I've gotta watch this again.
Thanks James!
All those Appalachian feuds were essentially an extension of the violent border warfare that raged all across the Celtic realms of the British Isles for centuries up until the early-mid 17th Century, before being transported to the American backcountry.
From along the English-Scottish border to the battlefields of Ulster in Northern Ireland raiding parties & savage battles were endemic & a common occurrence. Those from those regions who began leaving in droves during the early-mid 1700s before disembarking along an East Coast port & making their way to the Colonial frontier brought with them to the New World many clannish traits, customs & warlike attributes that they had been cultivating for generations back in Celtic Britain (Western Europe's premier warrior races from the late Medieval Era to the mid 1700s, including the Gaelic Irish & the western Scots Highlanders!).
And although the link with the Old Country was largely broken even after two generations of relocation a bond still existed, spiritual, primal & even a cultural one to a degree.
Those rugged Appalachian men depicted above were being haunted & exhorted by the restless ghosts of their bloody Celtic past.
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That's overly romantic, unrealistic, and smacks of ideas of racial purity.
Mr. JD my grandparents on my mom's side was from Kentucky, they were married in a cornfield grandma was 16 grandpa was 18. Anyway it was told to me I'm related to the McCoy's.
how bout that!
Wow I was looking for new fued stories and you delivered great story
its a heck of a story
Excellent production! I live in southern WV where I was born almost 65 years ago. And I knew nothing of this feud! I love my family but I've never been that " blood is thicker than water" kind of person. Because I've seen my relatives be in the wrong. I know things were different back then but I still know families with that clannish attitude. They usually can't get along with each other but if a outsider crosses them it's hell to pay! Thanks JD.
Thanks Brad- back then- like your kin or not- you needed them to survive, just like Elwin in this story- he stayed out of the feud completely and still got killed
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller - The innocent are swept up with the guilty in civil conflict however localized or spread. That war obviously grew out of the previous one. RIP, Elwin.
@@TheAppalachianStorytellerst out of curiosity and maybe I missed it but were both families on the same side in the Civil War or who was who in that War? I heard the Jefferson Davis comment, last words that man spoke, but I couldn't tell which family is on what side. I saw this coming from the start of the video but never heard it before.😂
Ain’t that the truth. They don’t like each other and don’t like outsiders either. I know a family like this and I’m in Florida. Never met a more two faced scheming bunch in my life. 😂
@@vakkerdame8557 Yep!
I was born in Rowan County, Kentucky. I live in Rowan County now. However, I have never heard this story before. Carter County is next to Rowan County. This does sound much worse than the Feud that took place in Rowan County. Thank you for this video.
This feud took place before the Rowan County feud with also included the Underwood Family
Thats because the Yankee Press did not cover it, just like this feud the Black Patch War in west Ky made that Hatfield McCoy fued look like a barroom tussle
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Oh....I forgot to say thanks JD for another great story. You were right, it did knock my socks off. Enjoyed.
Have a good en!
Lord have mercy this was a sad story but that's how it is in Appalachia
its a true story my friend
I figured it was true it sure was rough it those days
@@myersparanormal yes indeed
great piece of history you broght us. i don't know how i never got the notification it came out. i hope i have remedied that by going back and selecting all notifications. you Sir are the best storyteller i have ever had the pleasure of listening to. Storytelling is a dying art but people like you are its very lifes blood. Thank You for everything you do. Peace and Love
Thanks so much Marty!
This story was intense. It sounds like it was a mini Civil war. Thank you JD.
It was a mini civil war!
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Did the North win again ? Were the traitors executed this time so we don't have to put up with their race hate ?
@@TheAppalachianStorytelleris there a movie of this incident??
Same thing here in our place during 80's our clan has a feud with another clan. my father and all uncles always had a gun on them
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Good morning my friends, great story to start off a great Saturday. Thank you J.D. Y'all stay safe out there 🙏
Thank you Big Iron! Had a good one brother!
I've been watching all of you Appalachian stories, and really enjoying them. These stories would make a great series. I hope someone picks up on that one day. You also have a great voice! I realized that I wasn't following you, and now I am!
That would be awesome if they did, I have so many more stores I want to tell
I have to agree with you!! It would make. A Wonderful series! That would make to much sense too busy making garbage these days!!🤣
I like stories like this keep’em comin Storyteller if possible. Ones like this one and you telling it like you do seems like I’m there. Be safe brother and GOD BLESS y’all Amen 🙏
thanks brother!
I live on the Rowan and Carter County line. Fort Underwood was located not far from me at all, or so I've been told. I knew OF this feud, but I'd never really researched it. So I thoroughly enjoyed this.
Thanks Joe !
Seems there are always people who are always ready and willing to fight, and they don't seem to need a good reason... things haven't changed all that much... now it's mostly "civilized" feuding, but can be just as deadly in one way or another.
Thanks JD for sharing another fascinating story from our history 😎👍
Well said Kathy! Have a good en
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Thanks... you too 👍
People in Appalachia are still really territorial when you're in the back woods.
@@BoomerElite4u Maybe it's in their genes 😁
Southerners consisted of both pro-confederates and pro-unionists. Many feuds continued in communities way after the Civil war was over. Thanks for this story.
yes indeed, thanks for watching and commenting
This is the first story I have heard from you. I really enjoyed hearing you tell it and you have a new subscriber. I live in East Tennessee just below the KY state line and I've never heard of this feud. Thanks so much for the content and I look forward to watching your other vids.
Glad to have you here!
Glad I bumbled upon this channel. Great stories. Thanks.
Welcome aboard!
I would love to have a big farm like that and the equipment to keep it in shape
me too!
Loooord what another EXTRY GOOD'N brother!!! Can't wait to see more. God bless and have a good'n JD!
preciate you Jared!
I always appreciate the scenery in your videos! I know that's your personal work. Always beautiful❤
Thank you, I work hard on those shots, thanks for noticing
As an Australian and looking in from the outside, it appears to me that not a lot has changed there! I’m not being flippant when I say that. But I hope you all will live in harmony for the greater good of America and not just for a political party. Thanks JD that was a very interesting story.
It’s not quite as Wild West anymore, but it is America, and guns are common as clouds here
I am amazed at the wounds these people survived without the benefits of the modern ER and intensive care wards. But also that rural people especially mountain folk had a lot of practical knowledge with intimate knowledge of plants and other available things to treat illness. Also the firearms of the days, especially the handguns had a lot less velocity producing less tissue damage with hollow point pistol bullets being something for the future.
Well said
Well done, Squire Holbrook is my 1st Cousin 4 X Removed.
How bout that!
Excellent history Thank you for all your hard work
It's much appreciated
Thank you Stone Reaper
That was incredible, a great story well told. There's two sides to every story but I'm finding it hard to side with the Holbrooks.
Me too
In most of these feuds between "I am/was for slavery" people vs "I'm not/wasn't for slavery" people... The pro slavery ones were the usually the bigger pieces of sh*t...
No shock really.
Awfully good enjoyed it on the ride from work
Preciate ya brother!
Just found your channel, that was gripping I really enjoyed it! Thanks 👍 🤠
Glad to have you here Misty!
Just found your channel and I love it!
Consider me a new and happy subscriber 😎
Welcome ❤️
👍👍 thank you JD
Preciate you Larry
I have to say this is in the top 3 channels I enjoy. You are a great storyteller. Keep up the amazing work! 🤙
Thank you Mikey !
Never heard about this. Heard stories of Bloody Breathitt in Ky growing up. You got any stories on that. I love listening to you. You have a great voice. I can not stop listening. Thank you. from the bottom of my heart.
Thank you Barb! Glad to have you here!
This is the best channel CZcams. Thanks for the hard work and excellent entertainment.
Thank you so much 😊
Wow. Just wow!
yes indeed!
What a story! I had never heard about this before. I think I would have moved away if I had lived there in those times. Thanks!
Thanks Karen
As a fan of both Soundtrack scores and the heaviest of metal music, I will be taking a closer look at the Mini Vandals and Brian Bolger.
look at Mini Vandals... they are legit
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller In the process and thanks for turning me on to them in maybe the last channel on earth I would expect it 🤘🤘🤘🤘
This was amazing! Your storytelling is engrossing, I was on the edge of my seat! New sub! Thank you😊
Thank you! Glad to have you here
Thank you.
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Well told ,thank you
Thank you!
Really enjoyed this documentary. Great old time sounding narration 👍🏻
Thanks Nick!
JD I binge listen to your stories, Love Each One!
Thank you so much!
So very sad. A lesson on what holding a grudge can do.
This was downright hate and seeking power
Great piece of US history. Surprised they havent made a movie on it.
It would make a great movie
I've said many a time that my mom was born in Tennessee. The county was Carter County and the community was Crabtree.
Man, that reminded me of the Hatfields and McCoys. Glad we don't hold grudges like that nowadays.
Little known fact- there was more violence in this feud than the hatfields and McCoy ever had
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller - Where I retired in the place I call TinyTown USA, the churches had to be closed 1861-65 bc people turned them into shooting galleries. Today they only celebrate seniors graduating high school by letting (?) them conduct an absolute riot on the courthouse grounds where LEO housed in the building pretend not to notice "unless we need an ambulance". The kids speed around the square honking horns and then spill out onto the lawn where they attack each other with fists instead of guns or knives. I suppose that's considered progress. To them anyway. The civilized world doesn't.
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller A lot more since much of Hatfields and McCoys seems made up by the newspaper men. The fact vs fiction doesn't seem very close when considering the court documents. it appears that it was more of wealthy NYC financiers trying to acquire the richest coal fields in the world.
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller that is just plain scary.
Another great story. Thank you.
Thank you!
Another wonderful Appalachian story from the past. Your narrations and your voice make this channel very interesting. Thank you for sharing a great story
Thank you so much, appreciate you!
Love it....♥️
Awesome!
Love these ❤ Now trying to confirm some history from my youth memories.
Thanks Cathy!
Wow unreal story !! It was brutal back then
You got that right
Awesome story. I love all your videos❤
Thank you!
By far one of your best works ol son!!
preciate that my friend
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller when people say oh I love the stories of home they usually mean a general area, you tell some of these stories and to an ol boy born in Middlesboro and raised up in Louisa you know exactly where these places are and possibly some of the people in the stories kin, these are always amazing!!
Excellent episode sadly I did not learn of Sergeant York in school but from watching television Saturday afternoon when I was a kid. Even then I wondered why I had never heard. Thanks for sharing good teacher j.d
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you Elizabeth, have a blessed day
Love these stories. Great storyteller!
Thank you Sharon!
This should be a movie I’d watch it over and over
Thank you 🙏
I pray everything is going great your way Amen 🙏
thank you brother
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Closed my eyes and listened to your story J.D. ,your truly a story teller
Thank you brother
First time watching 👍🏿just subscribed
Growing up all i heard about was Hatfield and McCoy feud. This was way more violent and way more interesting. Will be looking up what else you have 🙏🏿❤️
preciate that brother, welcome to the channel! feel free to dig in, especially the "Appalachias Deadliest" series on my channel if you like outlaws and feuds. By the way I have another feud coming out next Saturday that would make the hats and mccoys blush. Stay tuned
I reckon the feuds came from the old country. Scotland. There were clan feuds for centuries.
Probably right
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Probably wrong. They are not Scottish surnames.
@@mustelidpeterderwood is both Scottish and English surname.
Accordig to Ancestry in 1891 there were 166 Underwood families living in Scotland and about 15,000 in the rest of the UK. It is an English surname that is found very occasionally in Scotland. Please refrain from making every thing Scottish.I would never dream of saying that Stewart is an English surname, enen though there are many thousands in England.@@scotoftheanarchic.7903
The Appalachian mountains and the Scottish highlands are also part of the same mountain range, just part of it is under the Atlantic
"the powerful combination of whiskey and cards" love
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Well standing on the outside looking in,
it seems to me Gorges nephew was innocent . They had no proof he stole that horse. Even though Squire Holbrook was friends with the owner. Thier the ones who started this fued with out any hard proof. It seems to me ole Gorge Underwood and his family was just trying to survive. I think there were some animosity in town against the Underwoods before the fued started. Definitely some underlying prejudice.
As I researched this story and put it all together- I came to the same conclusion
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I like the way you think. Have a great day JD.
James Deen - It could easily be thought that the feud just started after The Recent Unpleasantness. But as another has suggested here, it probably started many generations before that in Scotland or wherever. Sometimes the insanity takes on a life of its own until nobody really remembers exactly what or who started it. But my own historical studies tend at day's end to lay it at the feet of ancient imperialism. Divide and conquer has always been a favored method of invaders. At one time england held about a quarter of the planet in its sway, and not all the reverberations have gone silent to this day.
Great story telling and production. You’ve earned a new subscriber!
Thank you and welcome to the channel
There is a Holbrook farm south of Ft Wayne, Indiana on US 27. Would be interesting to see if there is any connection? Indiana is not too far from KY. Could be distant relatives. Will have to ask my Mom. They are her relatives on her moms side.
Could be
Well told. Wild story. Much of it must be missing to history.
Thanks J.B.
JD THIS IS THE BEST STORY EVER MY GOD MY MAN YOU SHOULD TALK TO KEVIN COSTNER AND ASK HIM TO DO A FILM ON THESE TWO FAMILIES AMAZING STORY LOVE YA JD
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Love how these genteel mountain folks settle a dispute....when it's over... it sure is over....done and dusted....
They didn’t play games
U done a great job telling this story 💯👏👍
Thanks so much!
The picture at 8:19 is of John Burns, the civilian who fought at Gettysburg.
yup!
Most people fail to realize how strong a family network was in the 1800's
The larger your family was the stronger your family was
Things didn't really begin to change untill Henry ford started ford motor company before then most people never went more than 50 miles from there home so it was common that a family could be 30 people or more strong anywhere in the country but the auto mobile changed all that now family's could be 30 40 50 strong but be all over the state so it is my belief maybe in error but I believe the automobile was the end of the clan wars
There's a reason they called the road out of Appalachia to the automobile factories "the hillbilly highway"
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller don't think I've ever heard that one before but I'm listening please explain
@@GeorgiaRidgerunner too many thoughts to type here, but I have a video coming on the whole subject
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller ok then be waiting on it
Thanks for the story JD! I had never heard of this fued. I live in Menifee, about a hour or so away from Carter Co
It’s a heck of a story
There still is places in these hills that you do not want to get lost in . You will end up as hog food. They will eat anything )
yup
Mt people are mostly reasonable ti
Just don't cross them
That was a great story JD.. seems like not much has changed in this world.. such a terrible way to live and die !
Thanks so much Lori, have a blessed day
Thanks for all your good work... it's great! On the idea of deadly feuds, would you consider covering the Tragedy at Fayerdale (Virginia) sometime?
if you have any links, names, dates, etc... please email me at theappalachianstoryteller@gmail.com
Quality content.
Thank you!
Thanks for this interesting and bloody tale….
Yes sir!
Thanks! Enjoy your channel... and prob related one way or another to all these people... Subscribed
Thanks so much
Great story, thank you for sharing ❤
Thank you ❤️
No!!!! It's time for cutting the head of the rattle snake. George Underwood was invincible, how many times was he shot? I lost count. Thanks JD, I was on the edge of my seat.
It’s a heck of a story!
Nice choice of soundtrack! Ps. Impressive loyalty of the women and kids! To stay with a dead body for 19 days, low on food and water... Man, you realise it was no joke about this people! If the women and kids are thay way, man are way more scary than the storry tells!
Thanks so much on all points! I work hard on the music being a musician myself. And yes... the WOMEN in this story holding off a group of blood thirsty assassins for 19 days! Wow!