Although the community was not noted for violence, there were two murders that were widely talked about:

Jim Warren who married Belzora Jones (daughter of Gabrella and Tom Jones) was having "an affair" with the wife of Yet Pardue. One day he went calling when Yet was supposed to be away, but in walked Yet and gunned him down with a shot gun. Yet Pardue was cleared in the trail.

Perhaps the most memorable happening in this community took place on the night of December 17, 1895. There was a deep snow and it was bitterly cold, but that did not deter the Protracted Meeting at the Church. Suddenly T.H. ("Pomp") Durham rushed in, went down the aisle and snatched his daughter Arvie off the bench, and yelled "Avie, come on here. Booker has shot Annie Belle" - End of the Protracted Meeting as the worshipers fled through the snow to the scene. Booker Steenbergen and Annie Belle were cousins and lovers. She was pregnant, but he did not wish to marry. Her brothers had told him he'd marry her or they would kill him. At that time, he was living at the home of Powell and Kate McIntyre about a mile from his father. He took Powell's gun, slipped out, and shot Annie Belle through a window, killing her instantly. Frightened, he ran down the hill through John Hinson's old tobacco stubble to Glover's Creek, across and up the Bewley Branch to his father's house where he hid under a bed. A posse had formed which caught and brought him to the Gibson place with the intention of hanging him to a huge ash tree in the yard (known as the "Hanging Tree"). Johnny Pickett Harrison persuaded the group to get the sheriff and sent Booker to Glasgow for trail. This was done and he was sentenced to the penitentiary where he remained until he was an old man. It is said that residents of Capital Hill went to Fountain Run the next morning after the shooting and bought every window shade in town. No more shooting through windows. From that time, there was no need for calendars: everything happened either "before" or "after" Booker shot Annie Belle.