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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. At the time of his capture, he was recovering from a gunshot wound to the chest.
The Hatfield clan (1897). Hillbilly is a term for people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas in the United States, primarily in the Appalachian region and Ozarks.As people migrated out of the region during the Great Depression, the term spread northward and westward with them.
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 Hatfield Clan of West Virginia, in 1897, had a long-standing feud with the Kentucky-based McCoy Clan. Feuds in the United States deals with the phenomena of historic blood feuding in the United States. These feuds have been numerous and some became quite vicious.
The Vance clan was distantly related to the Hatfield family of McCoy feud fame and took pride in it – while both Vances and Blantons continued the tradition of fighting.
Before he was a politician, Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance was largely known for his 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" about his Appalachian childhood.
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.
The Hatfield clan in 1897 Appalachia, and especially Kentucky, became nationally known for its violent feuds in the remote mountain districts. [ 39 ] They pitted the men in extended clans against each other for decades, often using assassination and arson as weapons, along with ambushes , gunfights , and pre-arranged shootouts .