In the book titled The Hatfields, Cap was “heavyset with a powerful bull-like neck, a thick pug nose which stood out prominently on a round face covered with a stubbled beard. He was also described as having a eye injury that was caused by a percussion cap explosion, giving him the appearance of being wall-eyed.
Hatfield is an Old English surname of Anglo-Saxon origin. Notable people with the surname include: Abraham Hatfield (1867–1957), American philatelist.
So the answer is yes. There are many descendants of both families still alive today. Direct descendants are dying off sadly more often. I have a friend, Elmer who is the direct descendant of both Devil Anse and Hog Floyd, the one who supposedly stole the pig.
Johnson “Johnse” Hatfield
| Birth | 6 Jan 1862 |
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| Death | 19 Apr 1922 (aged 60) |
| Burial | Hatfield Family Cemetery Sarah Ann, Logan County, West Virginia, USA |
| Memorial ID | 13790202 · View Source |
Johnse Hatfield, who would be married four times in his life, met Nancy McCoy (the daughter of Asa Harmon McCoy, who had been killed by the Hatfields) and they were married on May 14, 1881.
He was worse shot that I ever saw any man in my life; there were nine balls in his flesh; three bullets which had just lodged against the skin were taken out as he was prepared for burial. Phillips is shot through the thigh, but it is thought that he was shot by Wright or that he shot himself.
Selkirk McCoy, the McCoy who voted against Randal in the pig trial, worked on Anse's timber crew along with his two sons. Further, analysis of the 35-40 members of Anse's work crew shows that many of them were not related to Devil Anse at all.
The origins of the feud are obscure. Some attribute it to hostilities formed during the American Civil War, in which the McCoys were Unionists and the Hatfields were Confederates, others to Rand'l McCoy's belief that a Hatfield stole one of his hogs in 1878.
February 18, 1890: Ellison “Cotton Top” Mounts Hanged in Kentucky. Ellison Hatfield mortally wounded by three McCoy brothers. In 1882, Mounts' father was killed by three of Randolph McCoy's sons. The Hatfields retaliated for Ellison's murder by tying the three McCoy boys to pawpaw bushes and executing them.
His nickname "Devil Anse" has a variety of supposed origins: it was given to him by his mother; by Randolph McCoy; earned from his bravery during battle in the American Civil War; or as contrast to his good-tempered cousin, Anderson "Preacher Anse" Hatfield.
Devil Anse Hatfield and Randolph McCoy are buried 55 miles apart, at each end of the serpentine Hatfield-McCoy Feudin' Trail. In-between are the spots where people were hanged, shot, stabbed, beaten, and burned; most are flagged with helpful historical markers.
Ellison "Cotton Top" Mounts was the illegitimate son of Ellison Hatfield and Harriet Mounts. Ellison Hatfield was the younger brother of the famed Devil Anse Hatfield of the Hatfield and McCoy feud along the Tug River valley joining West Virginia and Kentucky.
Anse won the land dispute and was granted Cline's entire 5,000-acre plot of land. A few months after the verdict, Randolph McCoy stopped to visit Floyd Hatfield, a cousin of Devil Anse.
Randolph McCoy
| Randall McCoy |
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| Spouse(s) | Sarah McCoy (m. 1849–1890s) |
| Relatives | Nancy McCoy Dempsey, niece Asa Harmon McCoy, brother Paris McCoy, brother Ruth McCoy Farley, sister Maryetta McCoy Roberts, sister Sam McCoy, brother Levisa McCoy Stone White, sister |
| Military career |
| Allegiance | Confederate States of America |
The two had a child together and married in 1895. They both died young, Frank was shot to death in a fight at the age of thirty-six in 1898, while Nancy passed away from tuberculosis three years later.
10, 1888. On Jan. 19, a large firefight between Phillips and his men and Devil Anse Hatfield and his men happened, since known as the Battle of Grapevine Creek. Although no one was killed in the fight, it prompted Devil Anse to order 25 new Winchester repeating rifles to prepare for future attacks.
But by the time all was said and done, at least 13 Hatfields and McCoys had died—all over a pig, it seems. Still, some historians believe that the hog was just a scapegoat.
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.
3. The formerly feuding families were featured in Life magazine in the 1940s. In May 1944, an issue of Life magazine revisited the Hatfields and McCoys nearly 50 years after violence among them rocked the Tug Valley area between Kentucky and West Virginia.
Roseanna also died at the young age of twenty-eight, some say of a broken heart. She is buried in the Dils Cemetery in Pikeville, KY. For more information about the Hatfield McCoy GeoTrail and how you can get your very own trackable geocoin, visit our website by clicking on the banner below.
The origins of the feud are obscure. Some attribute it to hostilities formed during the American Civil War, in which the McCoys were Unionists and the Hatfields were Confederates, others to Rand'l McCoy's belief that a Hatfield stole one of his hogs in 1878.
Authorities soon apprehended the McCoys, but the Hatfields interceded, spiriting the men to Hatfield territory. After receiving word that Ellison had died, they bound the McCoys to some pawpaw bushes. Within minutes, they fired more than 50 shots, killing all three brothers.
