Henry Yancey - The Murder of Henry Yancey of Louisa County, Virginia

Why did his brother kill him?

Bad fight, I guess .Brother Stephen is a great grandfather. One clue is Henry said, I am much more sober now, just before he died. No excuse, hence the hanging. It was a little before my time.

That alcohol was involved pretty much explains it. The records don’t say what the fight was about, and the witnesses seem to have missed that part of things, but I am supposing that it wasn’t just Henry who had been drinking.