 It resulted in four confirmed deaths and the extermination or out-migration of some of the community's leading citizens, established Harts Creek as one of West Virginia's most violent communities, and may have triggered the movement of a county boundary.In 1925, Professor John Harrington Cox published "Folk-Songs of the South", which included a ballad titled "A West Virginia Feud Song" that detailed key events in the Lincoln County Feud.The following year, regional historian and educator Fred B. Lambert presented a brief account of the feud, including a better version of Cox's ballad titled "The Lincoln County Crew," which he attributed to George W. Ferrell.