Around 1930, Hugh Stiles, 64, was brutally attacked at his farm on Stringtown Pike by a former farm hand Joe McKinley, 23. Hugh was found bound to a post with bailing wire, gagged, with a fractured skull and jaw, beaten and stabbed multiple time in the head with a pitchfork, which gouged out his eye. He was taken to Louisville for treatment. McKinley was arrested and charged with assualt with intent to kill.

STILES, H. D.; died at 3 p.m.. Thursday, December 20. 1951; age 87 years. Survived by daughter. Mrs. T. W. Brunson: sons. Ogden Stiles of Bardstown, Ky.: Robert Stiles, Statesboro, Ga. Funeral at 10:30 a m., Saturday, December 22. at Mann-Greenwand Arnold Funeral Home, Bardstown. Ky. Burial in Bardstown Cemetery.