On a hot August election day in 1900, in the remote Sycamore precinct of Hancock County, Tennessee, a violent altercation erupted that would leave two lawmen dead and several others wounded. John Lamb, a 35-year-old male Deputy Sheriff, was among those who lost their lives in the bloody fray. The conflict, which took place on August 2nd, has been described as a pitched battle between two local factions, with the Brewer and Lamb families on one side and the Collins and Burton families on the othe
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