Pleas Storms was my great great grandfather. My great grandmother helped raise me and she often spoke
about her father who died when she was about 15.  According to the court report I requested from Bell County,
Will McCully was acquitted. However, my great-grandmother (Pleas' daughter Mary- who was at the trial
along with her brother Jasper) said Will McCully approached her after the trial and said,
"If there is anything I can ever do for you, let me know." She said she stomped on his foot as hard as she
could and told him,"When I get grown, I'll kill you for killing my daddy!". She said Will McCully wept when she said it.
The story I always heard about Pleas' death was: Pleas was playing cards (he liked to gamble) and apparently he had
won some money that night. When Pleas was on his way home, Will McCully shot Pleas as he started to walk
through the door of his house. Pleas died in front of his children Mary & Jasper and the other people who were in the
house at the time. My great-grandmother said Pleas fell dead on the doorstep. 

My great grandmother also had a strange experience right after Pleas died. When someone in the house mentioned taking
care of his kids, she said she heard her father's voice very loudly say, "That's right Betty". I'm assuming there was
someone named Betty in the house when Pleas died. My great grandmother never forgot that moment and
hearing her father's voice come from out of nowhere.