Near Doe Creek Church and School, a bitter Civil War feud divided the Kennedy family and the surrounding community. Hugh and Robert Kennedy established farms here early in the 1820s, and when the war began, Hugh Kennedy’s son John G. Kennedy entered the Confederate army while his twin sons David and Isaac Kennedy joined the Union army. Five of Robert Kennedy’s sons—Robert, Samuel G., Shadrach Hugh, William G., and James D. Kennedy—and his sons-in-law James M. Smith, Bill Nails, and Isham Gurley served in the Confederate army. During the war, Samuel G. Kennedy and James M. Smith were killed. Local Unionists warned James D. Kennedy and Bill Nails not to return if they fought for the Confederacy, but after the war they came back to Doe Creek and Union sympathizers murdered both men three miles away at Wormly Branch. Robert Kennedy brought their bodies here for burial, creating a community cemetery where several other Confederate veterans, including Isham Gurley, were later interred. The conflict lingered into the early 1900’s, when a descendant of Hugh Kennedy was killed by a descendant of Robert Kennedy, and his wife and most of his family were buried on these grounds, as was Hugh’s son Hugh J. Kennedy. About 1870, Robert Kennedy donated land, furnished logs, and provided oxen to move them here for a one-room church and school where congregations met on Sundays and children attended lessons during the week. The school served the community until the late 1940s, and for 54 years Robert Kennedy’s grandson Elmer Duck taught here.