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Nov 8, 2021 · Two years later, two McCoy sons, Sam and Paris, killed Stanton. The McCoys were able to argue that the shooting was in self-defense, and they were acquitted of the murder. Once again, that might have been the end of the Hatfields and McCoys feud. But as in all great stories of feuding families, two star-crossed lovers emerged.
In 1878 Randolph McCoy accused Floyd Hatfield, a cousin of Devil Anse, of stealing one of his pigs, a valuable commodity in the poor region. Floyd Hatfields’s trial took place in McCoy territory but was presided over by a cousin of Devil Anse. It hinged on the testimony of star witness Bill Staton, a McCoy relative married to a Hatfield.
Sep 10, 2019 · The Hatfields, McCoys and other families settled in the Tug valley on both sides of the shallow waterway, a tributary of the Big Sandy River that fed into the Ohio. Anderson Hatfield was born in ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Hatfield won his suit against Perry Cline, a friend of and relative-by-marriage to Randolph "Randall" McCoy, his future nemesis. Like the Hatfields, the McCoys had been early settlers in the area ...
Mar 8, 2021 · The Hatfield-McCoy feud ended in every practical sense in 1891. At that point the Hatfields who had participated in the violent and deadly raid on Randolph McCoy's cabin had been arrested, tried, and sentenced. Randolph, for his part, was exhausted by the feud and reportedly haunted by the deaths of his children.
May 29, 2012 · 4. The feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1888 several Hatfields were arrested and stood trial for the murder of two of Randall McCoy’s ...
The Hatfield-McCoy Feud, a prolonged vendetta between neighboring families in the Tug Valley, was fought largely in the 1880s. 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. Their leaders were Anderson ‘‘Devil Anse ...
