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While the Hatfield family won more money – $11,272.32 to the McCoys' $8,459.53—the decision was made to augment the McCoy family's winnings to $11,273.37. [ 30 ] [ better source needed ] Tourists travel to those parts of West Virginia and Kentucky each year to examine the relics that remain from the days of the feud.
Randolph "Randall" or "Ole Ran'l" McCoy (October 30, 1825 – March 28, 1914) was the patriarch of the McCoy clan involved in the infamous American Hatfield–McCoy feud.He was the fourth of thirteen children born to Daniel McCoy and Margaret Taylor McCoy and lived mostly on the Kentucky side of Tug Fork, a tributary of the Big Sandy River.
Devil Anse was the patriarch during the Hatfield–McCoy feud. His family and Randolph McCoy's fought in one of the bloodiest and most well-known feuds in American history. [ 8 ] He was instrumental in the execution of McCoy boys Tolbert, Pharmer and Bud, as well as being present during the Battle of Grapevine Creek before most of his sons and ...
Altina Waller, author of a definitive 1988 book on the most famous feud in Appalachian Kentucky, called Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900, pointed in a 2012 essay ...
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The McCoy family tree is posted on Ancestry.com. ... Sam and Mischell regularly attend the Hatfield and McCoy Reunion in Pikeville, Kentucky. (tourpikecounty.com).
His grandfather, Jeremiah Hatfield, was a half-brother to Valentine Hatfield (1789–1867), grandfather of William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield, leader of the Hatfield family involved in the famous Hatfield–McCoy feud (see Hatfield family tree). As a child, Hatfield worked on his father's farm.
The Hatfields, of West Virginia, were led by William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield. The McCoys, of Kentucky, were under the leadership of Randolph "Ole Ran’l" McCoy. The feud began after the killing of Asa Harmon McCoy, an ex-Union soldier, who was gunned down on January 7, 1865, while hiding in a cave. [3]