Editing Knott County, Kentucky (section)

==History==
{{further|The Forks of Troublesome#Early settlers|Hindman, Kentucky#History}}
Knott County was established in 1884 from land given by [[Breathitt County, Kentucky|Breathitt]], [[Floyd County, Kentucky|Floyd]], [[Letcher County, Kentucky|Letcher]], and [[Perry County, Kentucky|Perry]] counties. The 1890s-era courthouse, the second to serve the county, burned in 1929.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hogan, Roseann Reinemuth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hAVlVS29NKIC&q=%22bell+county%22+1914+1918+1976&pg=PA263 |title=Kentucky Ancestry: A Guide to Genealogical and Historical Research |publisher=Ancestry Publishing |year=1992 |isbn=9780916489496 |pages=263 |access-date=July 26, 2013}}</ref>

The first elected county officials were county clerk Lewis Hays (an early settler of [[The Forks of Troublesome]] defeating fellow early settler F. P. Allen), county judge David Calhoun, county attorney Fielding Johnson, sheriff Madison Pigman, jailer Isom Slone, and county assessor Hiram Maggard.<ref name="Scolf2000">{{Cite book |last=Scalf |first=Henry Preston |title=Kentucky's Last Frontier |publisher=The Overmountain Press |year=2000 |isbn=9781570721656 |pages=151&ndash;152 |chapter=The Rising Tide}}</ref>
The political lines drawn in the early politics of the county were largely along divisions between the early settler families of The Forks, inherited from [[American Civil War|Civil War]] differences.<ref name="Scolf2000" />

In a later election Anderson Hays ran against Clabe Jones, who had been on opposite sides in the Civil War, with Jones winning the election.<ref name="Scolf2000" />
This caused a feud that lasted several years, with fights and deaths in Hindman.<ref name="Scolf2000" />