Haddix, Kentucky.. is an unincorporated community and coal town in Breathitt County, Kentucky. Named after an early settler. Samuel Haddix, a native of Virginia. Haddix is located near the confluence of Troublesome Creek. A small settlement with no roads or railways to connect it to the nearby towns until 1910... and this creek is located in Breathitt, Perry, and Knott counties in Kentucky. With the surrounding watershed named after it but why all this talk about troublesome creek?... its because a strange medical condition was discovered in troublesome creek. And this condition was so peculiar that some didn't really believe the story. And for over one hundred and fifty years, locals in the area of Hazard Kentucky were stumped by this group of people...whose skin was the color blue. The descendants of the Fugate family of Troublesome Creek, and a related family in nearby Ball Creek...The Blue Fugates, sometimes known as the Huntsville subgroup, were well known in the area, and their genetic disorder went unidentified until the mid twentieth century, when the amount of affected people...from this extremely rare genetic trait.. had greatly decreased...ultimately finding a cure for this indigo trait.

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