I could never find any confirmation of this story from the feud maybe someone knows more or different.

John Cawood’s son in law married to his daughter Nancy was John Crockett Carter who lived up the creek from John Cawood. John Cawood gave him a large piece of land for a Dowry which he had logged and bought more land with the money. During the Howard- Turner Feud John Cawood was ambushed and killed by the Howard faction, this same group tried to kill His brother Stephen at his home, a rifle ball barely missed him and lodged in a porch pillar by his head. Then they went after John’s son Hiram who barely escaped by running around the house with rifle balls kicking up dust round his feet, but they killed his hired man Hezekiah Hall. Later that night they waited outside of John Crocket Carters home to kill him when John’s little boy walked out onto the porch and remarked to his mother;  ”I wish daddy would come home from Kansas City, I miss him terribly”, (John Crockett carter was away on business to Kansas City to buy or sell cattle,) so they left them alone. Later, the Carter Family of Lee County VA Heard of this and sent the Howards a letter stating that if a hair of John Crockett’s head was mussed they would get a posse of 25 men and come to Harlan County to avenge him. John Crockett Carter or his family was never bothered again.