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Trip into the Smokies with Horace Kephart

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  • Page 6 Jack did not know but what someone might take a shot at us. There was high feeling among those Hazel Creek and Eagle Creek mountaineers over that Westfeldt-Adams lawsuit. There were about sixt3r or seventy witnesses on each side, and during the several trials in Bryson and in Waynesville (the case was moved from Swain to Haywood County at one time) the witnesses for each side had to be housed on different sides of the town as they were liable to get into a fight. There were many strange stories told on the witness stand by those Hazel Creek mountaineers. I wish that I could remember them. One was a story of a coon hunt and the incidence of the burning of corner hacks (surveyors' markers) on trees which, although not customary, was done and which was brought out on the witness stand in that lengthy lawsuit. Jack Coburn was one of our star witnesses, having had charge of the Westfeldt land out in Swain for many years. That was what one might call a colorful lawsuit - not dull. There are many interesting stories about the old mountaineers of Hazel Creek who, whether they were "agin" you or for you, would stick to you when "furriners" came about. Mr. Kephart's book well describes them. Tom Woodward, whose cabin was up on Hall Creek, carried out the custom of some of the old mountaineers battening all the windows and doors at night. My uncle, Patrick M. Westfeldt, and my cousin, George G. Westfeldt, were stopping there one night. My cousin slept outside, and he told me that several times during the night he saw my uncle out on the ridge getting fresh air. Tom's answer was "We bat them down to keep the varmints out". Incidentally, Tom had eight children to care for. Quill Rose, who lived way up on the head of Eagle Creek - many
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