From the book Killings: Folk Justice in the Upper South
by William Lynwood Montell (excerpts)

On an undetermined date, probably in the early 1880's Baylor Christie(Crabtree), cousin of Ish(Isaac Thomas Crabtree) killed Lance Plinkett(Crockett) as the result of an earlier disagreement. The killing took place at Running Springs located on the State line two miles west of and just across the mountian from the head of Honey Creek (Caney Creek). Plinkett was married to Mary Holt(Huff), but her relationship to the Holt's previously mentioned can only be assumed. She later married Cleo Billings(Williams) who was also bushwacked at the head of Honey Creek.

"I got this from through my mother. That's been a long time ago. And I've heard my grandmother tell it. It was Lance Plinkett and High Christie that had trouble. And High Christie and his son Baylor Christie hauled goods for the stores around that part of the country (Honey Creek). And they had been hauling from Washington.

And Lance Plinkett was a-moving his family, I think, to Missouri. And he waited. He sent his wife Mary and his sons on ahead in the wagon with her brother to Worley(Albany). Landon Holt(Huff) was the woman's brother. And Lance Plinkett, the way mother told it, and two of his friends, Carl Emory(Moody) and Carl Waltham(Shelton) stayed back and waited till just about the time he would meet these Christie's at the state line.

So they met up there and they got into an arguement again, and Plinkett was planning on shooting the old man Christie..High. And his son Baylor picked up an axe and cut his, well, cut his head about off they said. They borrowed a handkerchief from my Aunt and it was tied around Plinkett's throat after he was struck with the axe, mother told me.

So that's the way it was. Now that happened over there above what they call Running Springs(Boiling Springs), up that road toward where Dr. Carne's home is now."