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The feud continued in 1882 when Ellison Hatfield, brother of Anse, was killed by three of Roseanna's younger brothers: Tolbert, Phamer (Pharmer), and Bud. [11] On an election day in Kentucky, the three McCoy brothers fought a drunken Ellison and another Hatfield brother; Ellison was stabbed 26 times and finished off with a gunshot.
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 ...
The savagery was part of what became known as the Hatfield-McCoy feud, an example of conflicts in Eastern Kentucky in the decades after the Civil War in which an unknown number of people were killed.
In 1881, when Johnse abandoned the pregnant Roseanna, marrying her cousin instead, the bitterness between the two families grew. In 1882, Ellison Hatfield, brother of Devil Anse Hatfield, was killed in an election-day dispute by three of Roseanna's brothers, who themselves were killed by a Hatfield-led mob while in the custody of the law.
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On 6 August the three of them shot and stabbed Ellison Hatfield during a drunken brawl; a few days later, armed men led by Devil Anse Hatfield took them prisoner while they were being taken up to Pikeville for trial and removed them across the state line to West Virginia. When Ellison died of his injuries, Devil Anse arranged an impromptu ...
If you told me a couple, who traces their ancestry back to the Hatfields and McCoys, found the body of the suspected Kentucky I-75 shooter then I’d say, “Yeah, I totally believe that ...
William Anderson "Devil Anse" or “Uncle Anse” Hatfield (/ ˈ æ n s /; September 9, 1839 – January 6, 1921) was the patriarch of the West Virginian Hatfield family who led the family during the Hatfield–McCoy feud.