From an old and perfectly reliable citizen, we have been able to get a history of Yellville as it was 37 years ago, and also some reliable traditions beyond that date. In 1852 Mr. J. H. Berry, then a young and single man, began to sell goods in a house that stood near where McDowel's store now stands. This firm is still in the mercantile business, and it is the oldest in northwest Arkansas, and probably in the State. About this time, Adam Weast settled at the head of Main street where the old buildings are now standing near Leonard Weast's residence. He died on Buffalo River.

Nancy Tutt was then living in the same spot on which she now resides, her husband having been killed the year before at the close of the Tutt and Everett war. A short history of this war would perhaps be interesting to our readers.

The feud between the Tutts on one side and the Everetts and Kings on the other began about 1846, and the families were just coming to blows when a terrible windstorm came up and separated the combatants.

In 1848, the three families met in Yellville and a bloody battle was begun between where Layton and Cowdrey's and Seawel's stores now stand.

Two of the Everetts and one of the kings were killed. The same year, St. Clair, one of Everett's men, was run down and killed in Searcy Co.

In 1849, three of the Kings were killed in the south west part of the County, and were brought to Yellville and buried in front of where 'Uncle Jim' Wickersham's residence now stands.

In 1840, Mrs. Nancy Tutt's husband was assassinated in Yellville on the spot where James Wilson's house now stands, occupied by Mr. E. D. McBride; being the only Tutt killed during the feud.