The Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board

Jehu Norman

according to a family story, shortly after the war ended, one of my relatives, (can't remember which one,) was sitting on a fence, visiting with a neighbor, near what is now Mountain Home, Arkansas. A man rode up on a "fine pacing horse" and said, "are you so and so? (again, I can't remember, I was very young, when I heard this story,) When the man said yes, the man on the pacing horse said, "I'm Jehu Norman, and you killed my brother, now I am killing you!" Jehu Norman pulled his pistol and shot the neighbor dead off the fence, turned his horse, and without further ado, rode off. Has anyone else heard this story?