Where did Hatfields and McCoys live?
The families lived on opposite sides of a border stream, the Tug Fork—the McCoys in Pike county, Kentucky, and the Hatfields in Logan county (or Mingo county, formed from a portion of Logan county in 1895), West Virginia. Each had numerous kinfolk and allies in the respective counties in which they lived.
The feud has entered the American folklore lexicon as a metonym for any bitterly feuding rival parties. The McCoy family lived primarily on the Kentucky side of the Tug Fork; the Hatfields lived mostly on the West Virginia side.
Ron McCoy and Reo Hatfield are both descendants of the famous feuding Hatfields and McCoys.
The Hatfield-McCoy feud began in the mountainous Tug River valley. The Tug River separates West Virginia from Kentucky and separated most of the Hatfield and McCoy clans. William Anderson Hatfield was the recognized leader of the Hatfields and went by the nickname of “Devil Anse”.
The Hatfields lived mostly in Logan County (including present Mingo) in West Virginia, and the McCoys lived mostly across the Tug Fork in adjacent Pike County, Kentucky.
In it, I describe the little we know about Hatfield's slaves. Like other Connecticut Valley towns in the 1700s and perhaps into the 1800s, Hatfield had slaves.
What Caused the Hatfield-McCoy Feud? The feud all began in 1864 when Confederate soldiers William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield and Jim Vance, cousin of Devil Anse, murdered former Union soldier Asa Harmon McCoy because they believed McCoy was responsible for the shooting of a friend of his during the war.
(It was the rumored theft of a valuable pig by a Hatfield ancestor that had served as a catalyst for the eruption of hostilities more than 100 years earlier.) The Hatfields won the contest.
(Reverse) Nancy McCoy was the youngest daughter of Asa Harmon McCoy, the first man killed in Hatfield-McCoy Feud. Despite the feud, at age 15 she married Johnse Hatfield, son of Anderson Hatfield.
HATFIELD-M'COY FEUD HAS HAD 60 VICTIMS; It Started 48 Years Ago Over a Pig That Swam the Tug River. TOM HATFIELD DIED LATELY Found Tied to a Tree -- Governors of Kentucky and West Virginia Have Been Involved in Mountain War.
Do Hatfields and McCoys still hate each other?
Although they ended the feud in 1891 and shook hands in 1976, Saturday, June 14, 2003, marked the official end to the Hatfields and McCoys' feud when the families signed a truce, in an event broadcast by the The Saturday Early Show.
- Feudin' Fried Chick'n.
- Open Pit Pulled -to-Pieces Pork Barbeque.
- Southern Style Creamy Soup.
- Smashed Mashed Taters.
- Buttery Corn on the Cob.
- Ma's Hot Homemade Bread.
- Daisy's Blue Ribbon Coleslaw.
- Granny's Famous Specialty Dessert.
McCoy is a common surname of Scottish origin in the lands of Kintyre and then Irish (Gallowglass) origin. It is an Anglicisation of its Irish form Mac Aodha, meaning son of Aodh (a name of a deity in Irish mythology and an Irish word for "fire").
The Hatfield-McCoy legend was embellished by a brief love affair about 1880 between Johnson (“Johnse”) Hatfield and Rose Anna McCoy—an affair that was opposed and eventually broken up by the McCoys. Newspapers turned it into a Romeo-and-Juliet romance.
He was never fully accepted by the Hatfields. He was the butt of jokes and rough horseplay. He was rather slow and developmentally challenged. He was not so much ruthless, as he was just unaware.
HATFIELD-M'COY FEUD HAS HAD 60 VICTIMS; It Started 48 Years Ago Over a Pig That Swam the Tug River. TOM HATFIELD DIED LATELY Found Tied to a Tree -- Governors of Kentucky and West Virginia Have Been Involved in Mountain War.
The Hatfields won the contest. 3. The formerly feuding families were featured in Life magazine in the 1940s.
(Reverse) Nancy McCoy was the youngest daughter of Asa Harmon McCoy, the first man killed in Hatfield-McCoy Feud. Despite the feud, at age 15 she married Johnse Hatfield, son of Anderson Hatfield.
THE CIVIL WAR
Both William "Devil Anse" Hatfield and Randolph McCoy were Confederates and were both along in a raid that killed Union Gen. Bill France in the fall of 1863. That raid sparked into action the Kentucky homeguards, who were sent to take Devil Anse and his men.