Mose Feltner spent most of his life in Perry and Leslie Counties, and when the French and Eversole Feud was raging In Perry County he joined with Eversole and took an active part in it. He was in many battles during the fued, but always seemed to escape unharmed.

One battle was fought at a place now known as Jeff, Kentucky. The Eversole clan were stationed on the north side of the Middle Fork at the Kentucky River, and the French clan were stationed on the south side and each were firing high powered shot guns at the other. During this battle a man named Fields was killed, and Mose Feltner was given credit for the murder.

When Circuit Court convened in Perry County, Mose was indicted and convicted, but the cae was taken to the Court of Appeals and a reversal granted. Feltner obtained a change of venue from Perry County to Breathitt County, went to Jackson, Kentucky and employed John B. Marcus to defend him. This was during the time of the Hargis feud, also.

When Jim Hargis learned that Mose was in town, he sent for him and asked Mose to join them in their efforts to kill Mr. Marcus. Feltner agreed to the plan, but went straight to Marcus and told him what Jim Hargis had planned. He really was a body-guard for Marcus, yet tried to play a game of being a friendly-enemy to all the Hargis clan.

John B. Marcus was assassinated, and Mose Feltner was indicted along with Curt Jett and Tom White. Feltner escaped prison sentence for lack of evidence as an accomplice in the case. He returned to Perry County but later settled in Leslie County.

In the year 1902, Mr. and Mrs. Abner Eversole lived on Wooten Creek in Leslie County with their son Gordon, a lad of eight years old at the time. One morning Mr. Eversole decided to take a trip several miles away to visit some relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Farmer, who owned and operated a store on the head of the creek. Gordon went with his father, and when they got there he went fishing with his uncle Felix.

When they had fished awhile his uncle told him he was going down the river for a few minutes, and left Gordon sitting on a rock with a fishing pole in his hand. Felix told him to stay there until he returned, and soon after Gordon heard a noise in the bushes. When he looked up he saw five or six men coming from the woods armed with pistols that looked like cannons to the small boy. He got scared and he said later that he thought to himself, "I am a gone gosling".

Mose Feltner was in the group and when he saw the boy was afraid, he went over and told him not to be afraid as they would not hurt him, and then asked where his uncle was. At the time someone was making moonshine whiskey in the area and Mose was acting as the go-between for the revenue officers.

About twenty years later, when Gordon Eversole was a lawyer and happened to be in court one day, he again met Mose Feltner. Mose laughed and told him how he had looked as a little boy sitting all alone on a rock, with a fishing pole clutched tightly in his trembling hands.

Several more years passed when one afternoon Mose Feltner was walking near the courthouse in Hyden, the yard that enclosed the courthouse was fenced in by wire and the road in front of it led down the hill. As he was walking, George Sizemore, the sheriff, stopped him and told him he had a warrant for his arrest. Feltner laughed and said that warrants were very common in his opinion, but the sheriff insisted he had to arrest him. This made Feltner very angry, and as he was a large man he picked the little sheriff up by the seat of his pants and slammed him down on the other side of the fence. He turned and started walking, when the sheriff got up and took out a revolver and shot him in the back, killing him instantly. So ended the life of another man who had faced extreme dangers during his lifetime.

Notes taken by conversations with Gordon Eversole and Mrs. James Morgan