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The Hatfield clan in 1897. Asa Harmon McCoy joined the 45th Kentucky Infantry on October 20, 1863. According to his Compiled Service Records, he was "captured by Rebels" on December 5, 1863, and was released four months later to a Union hospital in Maryland.
The Hatfield-McCoy feud, with an estimated 12 to 20 people killed, became the most notorious in the national mind because of publicity it received, but it wasn’t the worst.
Randolph "Randall" or "Ole Ran'l" McCoy (October 30, 1825 – March 28, 1914) was the patriarch of the McCoy clan involved in the infamous American Hatfield–McCoy feud.He was the fourth of thirteen children born to Daniel McCoy and Margaret Taylor McCoy and lived mostly on the Kentucky side of Tug Fork, a tributary of the Big Sandy River.
Devil Anse was the patriarch during the Hatfield–McCoy feud. His family and Randolph McCoy's fought in one of the bloodiest and most well-known feuds in American history. [ 8 ] He was instrumental in the execution of McCoy boys Tolbert, Pharmer and Bud, as well as being present during the Battle of Grapevine Creek before most of his sons and ...
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The grave of the Hatfield family patriarch, Devil Anse Hatfield, in Logan County, W.Va. Hatfield, the leader of one of two families entangled in the Hatfield-McCoy feud, was buried here in 1921.
The Hatfields, of West Virginia, were led by William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield. The McCoys, of Kentucky, were under the leadership of Randolph "Ole Ran’l" McCoy. The feud began after the killing of Asa Harmon McCoy, an ex-Union soldier, who was gunned down on January 7, 1865, while hiding in a cave. [3]
Shortly after the capture and killing of Jim Vance in January 1888, the Hatfield family, led by Devil Anse Hatfield, prepared for one last major offensive attack in revenge against the McCoy family. When news of the Hatfields' war preparations reached the McCoy side, the Hatfields were already en route to invade the McCoy territory, so Frank ...