I am a TOLLIVER and last night (Oct 5th), I was excited and pleased to view your performance of Bloody Rowan. Since my party and I had driven from Lexington, we had to leave as soon as the program was over. Unfortunately, no time to stay and give everyone my “raves” of their performances, writing and direction skills. To use colloquial vernacular, it was SUPER!! I could tell everyone worked so hard to bring “the times of the county” and the story, to view.
For any of you who might would like to know about one of the “limbs” of the tree relating to Morehead and the feud:
Two brothers of my great grandfather (Jones), Joel and James William Morgan Tolliver, drove a buckboard from Nicholas County (Carlisle) to Morehead for some supplies. They parked the buckboard and was walking between houses to the next street. As they got to the next street over, shooting broke out and William Morgan was wounded in the shoulder. They both managed to roll under the sidewalk for cover. Back then the sidewalks were built up from the ground as the streets were dirt and, of course turned to mud when it rained.
When the fighting began to move farther up the street, Uncle Joel helped his brother out from under the sidewalk and back to the buckboard.
On their way back to Nicholas County, they stopped at William C Lowe’s home for help for William Morgan and stayed a few days until he was well enough to travel.
With very best regards to all,
Kay Tolliver Barnes
PS,
JD, WONDERFUL job!!!