Sheriff Rosamond Murdered By Crazed Moonshiner

In the fall of 1986, Sherri and I went to Grandma and Grandpa Nichols house to visit. Sherri had a family tree project for school that she needed to do. She was in first grade, so really it was a project for the parents to do.
In getting the information on the grandparents from Grandma Nichols, (Ina Rosamond) when we got to Noniamus Nathaniel Rosamond she told me he was murdered. Then started telling me the story. I grabbed some more paper to write it down exactly as she told it. When I started getting confused with all the Grandpa’s and Grandma’s I stopped her to ask questions. This is the story she told…
Yates Standridge, he was a wildcat whiskey maker, had a still out in the woods. The law had caught him 2 to 3 times. Late in the evening, there were no cars at that time, the…