WATSON/HOOPER FEUD:

I suspect that many of the feuds were continuations of Civil War (after the war officially ended). Many families had relatives on both sides of the war.

There was great resentment in the South about the actions of Lincoln and General Sherman.

I believe that Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) made composites of many feuds and incorporated them into his work.

I wonder if Clemmons Hooper was related to Mark Twain?

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~booleygirl/watson/wahofeud.html

The link above says:

"The Watson - Hooper Feud"

(1864, GLENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA)

"Moses and Elizabeth Watson"

"witness to the Hoopers stringing up Moses, his son James (Daniel's father), and James's eldest brother, William. They left the women folk and the baby (Daniel's youngest sister) alone."

"one of the participants in the lynching, who was then known as Yankee Bill Hooper"

"Moses Watson's wife, Elizabeth Picklesimer, was related to the Hooper family through her mother, Eleanor Hooper Picklesimer."

[Many years prior to this feud, Absalom Hooper lived next to Moses Hopper (note spelling). Hopper said that he was adopted and took the last name "Edwards.]"