Taylor Sutton Feud

Possibly the most infamous part of the Cuero Story is the history of the Sutton Taylor Feud. The Sutton and Taylor families were pioneers of DeWitt County settlers. The sources and causes of their family friction are lost in the midst of time, but their family loyalties and the frontier ethic were expressed in the phrase, “I’ll die before I’ll run” and the feud resulted in the death of many good men on both sides before law and order was restored in DeWitt County by the Texas Rangers.