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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.
The Hatfield–McCoy Feud involved two American families of the West Virginia–Kentucky area along the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River from 1863 to 1891. The Hatfields of West Virginia were led by William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield, while the McCoys of Kentucky were under the leadership of Randolph "Ole Ran'l" McCoy.
Most known for his brief affair with Roseanna McCoy. Later married her cousin Nancy McCoy. William Anderson Hatfield Jr. Cap 1864–1930 Son Killed Jeff McCoy in 1886. Deputy sheriff of Logan County, West Virginia Robert Lee Hatfield Bob 1868–1931 Son Operated a saloon at Wharncliffe, Mingo County, during the 1890s Nancy Bell Hatfield Vance ...
On Election Day 1882 in Pike County, after a good bit of drinking, which typically accompanied voting at the time in mountainous Eastern Kentucky, brothers Tolbert, Pharmer and Randolph McCoy ...
In 1875, Randolph accused Floyd Hatfield, a cousin of William, of stealing one of his pigs. The trial took place in McCoy territory where witness Bill Staton, a McCoy relative married to a ...
Matthew Fontaine Maury married his first cousin, Ann Hull Herndon, sister of Captain William Lewis Herndon, who died on his ship SS Central America [citation needed] Randolph "Randall" McCoy , patriarch of the McCoy clan involved in the Hatfield–McCoy feud , and his first cousin Sarah "Sally" McCoy
Authorities had offered a $35,000 reward for information that led to Couch’s arrest, and police confirmed Wednesday night the McCoys will receive $25,000 of that reward.
The simmering feud escalated soon afterward, when Roseanna McCoy began a courtship with Johnson "Johnse" Hatfield, Devil Anse's son. Roseanna left her family to live with the Hatfields in West Virginia. In 1881, when Johnse abandoned the pregnant Roseanna, marrying her cousin instead, the bitterness between the two families grew.