The Grangerfords and Shepherdsons have had a
longstanding family feud. In an
interview some of the remaining men were asked what started the battle. The
answer from the Grangerfords was something along the lines of the oldest
daughter’s running away with a Shepherdson boy in a story parallel to that of
Shakespeare’s Romo and Juliet. In an interview with some Shepherdson
survivors, they claimed the Grangerfords attacked unprovoked and they only fought
back in self-defense. When asked why the
original feud began, neither side could entirely remember why the feud had even
started. (Chapter 18 iPhone pg. 447) All of the information they knew was that
this quarrel commenced over a law suit and when one man won the other shot him.
Neither side knew who won and who did the shooting. All they were concerned
about was whether a person was a friend or foe. The youngest reported dead were
Buck Grangerford, 14, and George Jaxon, 13. (Chapter 18 iPhone pg. 477& pg.
480) There are reports that Buck Grangerford shot at Harney Shepherdson earlier
in the week and Harney is the boy the oldest Grangerford girl, Sophia, ran away
with. There are rumors as to how the two would have made these plans, but the
most logical is that the two somehow made contact during church, because the
two families do attend the same church.
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