Moonshiner in the family

 Dave's cousin Melissa Morgan Kline asked if I'd heard the story of Dave's grand uncle Willard Morgan.  Here's what she wrote me:

Here are the articles that I found detailing the arrest of our Morgan Moonshiner. Shepherdstown Register, Jefferson County, Friday 9/29/1893 Willard Morgan, the notorious moonshiner, who has defied and defeated the revenue officers in the mountains of Wyoming County for fully twenty years has been captured by Marshal Dan Haunon. The New Dominion, Morgantown, West Virginia, October 7, 1893 A Morgan Criminal in Wyoming County Welch, W. Va., Sept. 29. - Wednesday morning Deputy United States Marshal D. H. Harmon, Jr., captured on Indian Creek, in Wyoming County, Willard Morgan, one of the most noted and desperate moonshiners in all this section of the country. The arrest was accomplished by Harmon and his deputies slipping upon him unawares and getting the drop on him before Morgan could even cock his trusty Winchester which he has kept constantly with him for years. Morgan is about fifty-five years of age, tall and muscular, wears a heavy beard and is remarkably intelligent, considering the backwoods life he has always led. He has been extensively engaged in the moonshine business for over twenty years, and for over twenty years, he has successfully evaded or defied all attempts upon the part of the county and State authorities to arrest him. Armed to the teeth he and his gang have made more than one United States Marshall leave the neighborhood, and it was only last fall that he alone made Deputy Marshall Cunningham lay down his arms and make a hurried departure. About six years ago the State Legislature issued an order that the militia be sent into Wyoming to arrest Morgan and his gang, but for some reason this order was never executed. The prisoner was brought here last night and this morning gave bond in the sum of $200 for his appearance before the United States court at Charleston, whereupon he got gloriously full and left for home. Harmon says Morgan submitted to arrest very calmly, but that his wife raised Cain and gave vent to language of sulphureous kind in great profusion giving the officers a very thorough and elaborate "cussing" out.