Here in the mountain terrain among the wildest in eastern America, the twisting Tug Fork River sliced West Virginia's Logan (now Mingo) County with its Hatfields and Kentucky's Pike County with its McCoys into separate and independent-minded states. And never would that independence be more challenged than with the coming of the War Between the States, when Kentuckians and West Virginians fought and died for both the Union and the South's honor and cause.
d/o; Roseanna McCoy & Johnson Johnse Hatfield. Roseanna's baby daughter was named Sarah Elizabeth. The sign by Sarah's grave said she was buried next to a tree, on the hill bedside (Aunt) Betty McCoy's home. Betty's home is located near Pikeville, Pike Co., Kentucky. The baby was about 8 months of age at the time...
Family links:Parents:Asa Harmon McCoy (1828 - 1865)Martha Cline McCoy (1830 - 1907) Spouses:Johnson 'Johnse' Hatfield (1862 - 1922)Frank Phillips (1861 - 1898) Children with Johnse Hatfield:William Anderson Ancie Hatfield - 1884 – 1917Stella Hatfield- 1886 – Abt 1900-1901 Children with Frank Phillips:Elsie Phillips -...
mccoy was distantly related to the mccoys in the hatfield mccoy feud ...
Nancy Mccoy's Grave
Hatfields and McCoys
Family Feuds can be nasty things. It's bad when two people feud, but when entire families are at odds, it's worse. Just ask the Hatfields and McCoys.
Stories, tales, lies, musings and daily life in the mountains of central Appalachia. Dedicated to the education of the American public on the unique culture of Appalachia.
Members of the McCoy family gather for the hanging. Photo courtesy of Elaine Vance.
Driving Tour CD
McCoy Family
A fascinating, new archaeological dig in Hardy, Kentucky has shed light on the bloody rivalry which saw multiple members of the Hatfields and McCoys slaughtered over two decades in the 1800s.
The Hatfield-McCoy feud involved two rural families from West Virginia and Kentucky along the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River from 1865-1891. The Hatfields, led by William Anderson ‘Devil Anse’ Hatfield lived on the West Virginia side of the river. The McCoys, led by Randolph McCoy, were from Kentucky.…
William Anderson Hatfield II (1864-1930) aka Cap Hatfield, was the last of the Hatfields to die who was involved in the Hatfield-McCoy feud. (b. February 06, 1864, Mingo County, West Virginia, USA - d. August 21, 1930, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA) Parents: He was the son of William Anderson...
Was Cap/William Hatfield House in Sarah Ann, Logan County, WV.
Hatfield and McCoy
Joseph McCoy
The beginning of the Hatfield and McCoy feud.
Hatfield Pioneers excerpt by Coleman A. Hatfield (1952) #HatfieldMcCoyFeud #Appalachia #history #WV #KY
