Their children were : Because of Joseph C. Eversole 's political activity in Eastern Kentucky , he was a delegate to the 1884 Republican National Convention held in June 1884 . He was one of the delegates from the 10th district of Kentucky . He named one of his children ( Dr. Chester Arthur Eversole ) after US President Chester A. Arthur . The individual arrested and hanged for the murder was known as ' Bad Tom ' Smith . Joe Adkins was also implicated and he was later convicted for the 1894 assassination of Judge Josiah H. Combs . ' Bad Tom ' said that the murders were committed on orders from the leader of the French faction , Benjamin Fulton French . Media of the time recorded ' Bad Tom ' Smith 's confession in detail . Several records written in 1889 ( about a year after the assassination ) said : The June 28 , 1895 '' Courier-Journal '' ( Louisville , Kentucky ) reported Mr. Smith saying : When asked why he did this he said in a separate article that he stole a horse from the Eversole 's and that the Eversole 's prosecuted him for this crime and ' he became their bitter enemy joining the French Faction ' In addressing the crowd , ' Bad Tom ' Smith said : A number of books outline that most people believed that B. Fulton French was responsible for the murders of Joseph C. Eversole , his father-in-law , Josiah Henry Combs , and many others . In 1913 ( 19 years after the death of Judge Josah Combs ) , French accidentally ran into Joe Eversole 's widow , Susan Combs Eversole in the lobby of a hotel in Elkatawa , Kentucky ( near Jackson , Kentucky ) . With Mrs. Eversole was her youngest son , Harry C. Eversole then 28 years old . When French spoke to Mrs. Eversole , Harry pulled out a revolver and aware that French wore a bullet proof vest - shot him in the spleen . French initially recovered from his wounds and the Court fined Harry C. Eversole $ 75 for disturbing the peace . Susan Eversole paid the fine . in 1915 , a little over a year after the shooting , French died from complications from the wound and was buried at the Winchester Cemetery in Clark County . While French never went to prison for the crime of orchestrating the Eversole clan murders , Harry was never tried for Fulton French 's murder
1884 Republican National Convention
1884 Republican National Convention
Joseph C. Eversole