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May 31, 2012 · Given that there were no real medical records kept back then, we are not privy to the exact cause of Roseanna McCoy’s death. The oldtimers who told me the real story said that she committed suicide, since that is what “died of a broken heart” meant back then.
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Apr 20, 2023 · Nearly thirty years after the main events of the Hatfields & McCoys feud, Johnse died in a mountain cabin in Logan County, West Virginia. Johnse Hatfield was 60 years old at the time of his death and married Jeanette Francis Hatfield (née Brookshire), whom he married in 1900.
- The People on The Peaks
- The Reigning Patriarchs
- The Divided Banks
- A Pig in Court
- Enter Romeo and Juliet
- The Devil Resists
Peace was never natural along the Tug's banks. Especially not in the mid-19th century. The men here doted on their skills at guns and fights, their spit-the-devil-in-the-eye fearlessness, their huge families, their freedom. For them, government barely existed. Courts were few and police protection almost nonexistent, with public servants dreading t...
On either side of the river, men stepped forward to assume the mantle of leadership for their kin. In Kentucky, that mantle went to Randolph (Randall, Ole Ran'l) McCoy, a tall, broad-shouldered man of property with gray eyes, full beard and serious, almost morbid, bent of personality. Married to his cousin Sarah, the couple produced 16 children, on...
If only there had been no war ... If only the neighbors had all fought together ... But reality was bitter. With West Virginia's admittance to the Union in 1863, Devil Anse Hatfield realized that, as a Southern sympathizer, he, his family and property were in real danger. Now, in the name of home defense, he formed the Logan Wildcats, which as one ...
For 13 years, peace reigned along the Tug. With the passing of time, Hatfields and McCoys forgot the tensions and injustices of the war years. Again, the families intermarried. Even the patriarchs, with Ole Ran'l considerably older, added to their expansive families. In West Virginia, times were good. Devil Anse's logging enterprise prospered and h...
Against this background of bubbling resentment, nothing could seem more foolhardy than a love affair between a daughter of Ole Ran'l and a son of Devil Anse. But Roseanna McCoy was not wise. By the best measure, the spring election of 1880 proved her downfall. To mountain folk, elections were great social events. Men came to swap goods and stories,...
But though Roseanna had, quite unexpectedly joined his household, Devil Anse was far from pleased at the idea of the couple's marriage.
Nov 8, 2021 · Ellison died of his injuries shortly after, and as revenge for his death, the Hatfields executed the McCoys in a hail of gunfire. When the bodies were later examined, there were over fifty bullet wounds between them.
Aug 20, 1998 · The McCoys did not forgive Roseanna, who caught measles and lost her baby. Johnse married Roseanna’s cousin, and Roseanna died within the decade. Legend listed the cause of death as a broken...
Apr 7, 2007 · The feud became national news in 1882 when Roseanna's brothers - Tolbert, Pharmer and Bud McCoy - kidnapped Ellison Hatfield, stabbed him 26 times, then shot him. Hatfields then kidnapped the...
The fight may have erupted over Hatfield’s treatment of their sister, Roseanna McCoy. One of the McCoy brothers used a knife to stab Ellison numerous times, with some sources saying more than two dozen stab wounds were inflicted, several of them in the back, before shooting the helpless and gravely wounded man as he lay on the ground.
