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- Soon after this he (Thomas Lovelady, bro-in-law) came to Washington County, VA, to visit a relative. This relative was none other than the wife of Amos Allerd, Lovelady's sister, who lived on Copper Creek. Sometime after this, Amos Allerd was arrested as a horse thief and confined in jail at Abingdon, but broke jail and returned to the area and in league with John Watts Crunk and some men named Shelly was again stealing horses and selling them out of the area. Allerd was hiding out in the woods, and in April 1786 he stole horses belonging to Samuel and Patrick Porter of Falling Creek. A posse of neighbors got together and agreed to waylay Allerd and take him dead or alive. Allerd had been corralling his horses in an arrow ravine where a stream empited into the mouth of a cave near Tremble's Creek in Scott County. As Allerd approached this ravine he was fired upon and killed--the first murder in Russell County (VA) and the cave is still today known as Amos Cave.
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