Anybody have any information on the source of the feud between Alvin C. York's maternal grandfather William Brooks and Pres Huff? Supposedly it had roots in the Civil War, according to the bio of ACY on the York Institute homepage. Here's an excerpt:

"...Alvin's maternal grandfather met an even more tragic death after the war's end but as a direct result of the hatreds spawned by the war. He was a Union soldier named William Brooks who had joined the Union Army at his home in Michigan and moved south with General Burnside's forces. At Pall Mall he fell in love with Nancy Pile, daughter of Elijah Pile and granddaughter of the renowned Coonrod Pile. Young Brooks deserted the army declaring that the only other conquest of the South that he was interested in making was the conquest of Nancy Pile.

After he and Nancy had been married about two years and one daughter had been born to them, an old feud with Pres Huff flared up again and William Brooks killed him. Brooks then fled the country knowing that Huff's friends would soon be there to avenge his death. Several months later Nancy Pile Brooks and her daughter also disappeared. More months passed and finally a letter from Nancy to her family arrived. It had been intercepted by Huff's friends and the Brooks family was located in a logging camp in the wilds of northern Michigan. Extradition papers and warrants were prepared, and Huff's former business partner was sent to Michigan to return William Brooks to Jamestown where he was lodged in jail.

But William Brooks was never to get a trial by law. The next night a band of men rode up the Wolf River Valley, up the mountain and across the plateau to Jamestown. They took William Brooks from the jail, tied a rope around his feet, unbridled a horse, tied the other end of the rope around the horse's tail, fired a shot to scare the horse, and as the horse ran down the road dragging William Brooks the men rode behind firing bullets into his squirming body until he was dead. Now both of Alvin York's grandfathers were dead, both dying tragically as a result of the hatreds engendered by the Civil War."

Thanks