Tuesday, January 10, 2012

What is the story of the Hatfield and McCoy feud? Are any of the family members still alive?

Hogs ,crop damages, logging /land disputes, and bad blood (the logan wildcats killin Hall McCoy didnt help much) and the Hog trial along with the murder of the main witness, (Stanton?) and the claims of bias , Johnse Hatfield knocking up rosanne Mccoy didnt improve things any along with all their troubles and tribulations,then the McCoy boys got into it with Ellison Hatfield on election day and cut him up some (20 odd stab wounds)along with shooting the old man..his brother Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield didnt think much of that so he went over and grabbed up the 3 McCoy brothers and waited to let fate decide it, when Ellison cashed in his chips, supposedly Anse honored his word that he'd send the boys back home, so he took them down to tug creek and tied them to trees and executed them...it went back and forth a few more years and Wall hatfield and some 7-8 friends got themselves grabbed and hauled in for the killing of a McCoy girl child during a raid ,alifair Mccoy maybe, and they got themselves sent to prison for life except for one of them which got Hanged that was late 1880's (1888 maybe) fued was official called over by both families in the 1890-91 era.

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