Afterward, the Hatfields, led by Devil Anse, prepared for one last major offensive against the McCoys. On January 19 th , Phillips group met the Hatfields on the West Virginia side of the Tug Fork River as they were en route, and the two groups exchanged gunfire. Known as the Battle of Grapevine Creek, the Hatfields suffered multiple casualties and they retreated.
Two Hatfield supporters were killed, and a deputy, Bill Dempsey, was executed by Frank Phillips after they surrendered. Years of legal wranglings unfolded as a series of courts judged the legal merits of the Hatfield case. The main issue was that the West Virginia men had allegedly been illegally extradited across state lines. Eventually, the case went all the way to the U.
Supreme Court, which decided that the Hatfields being held in custody in Kentucky could be tried. In the end, eight of the Hatfields were found guilty and sentenced to life in prison, with the exception of Cottontop Ellison Mounts. Mounts was mentally challenged and many people viewed him as a scapegoat even though he had confessed his guilt.
Although public executions were against the law in Kentucky, thousands of spectators gathered to witness his hanging on February 18, The Hatfields made me do it! Between and , more than a dozen people of the two families died and at least 10 people were wounded. Fighting between the families eased following the hanging of Mounts.
Trials continued for years until the trial of Johnse Hatfield, the last of the feud trials. With the feud officially over, Randolph McCoy became a ferry operator and died in at the age of 88 from burns suffered in an accidental fire.
He is buried in the Dils Cemetery in Pikeville, Kentucky. He went on to found a Church of Christ congregation in West Virginia. For years afterward, the feud entered into American folklore and its tales were told in books, magazines, movies, and television programs.
It continues to fascinate people today, and tourists travel to parts of West Virginia and Kentucky to see the areas and historic sites which remain from the days of the feud. This is a self-guided tour that includes all of the sites of the feud, both in Kentucky and West Virginia. Visitors are provided a Hatfield and McCoy Driving Tour brochure for free, that features step-by-step instructions for finding each feud site that is open to the public. The American Frontier. American History.
Frontier Wars by Emerson Hough. Encyclopedia Britannica Herald-Dispatch History. One of 18 children born to Ephraim and Nancy Hatfield, Devil Anse Hatfield was known to be an excellent marksman and rider.
It was said that he was so strong and fierce that he could take on the devil himself, which is supposedly where his nickname came from. In , Hatfield married Levicy Chafin, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. But he spent little time with his new bride, quickly signing up to support the Confederacy during the Civil War. A natural-born leader, he headed up a local militia with his uncle Jim Vance, which was known as the Logan Wildcats.
After the war ended, Hatfield settled down with Levicy and turned to farming, cutting timber and buying real estate. The couple eventually had 13 children together. Ambitious and aggressive, Hatfield had one of the most successful timber businesses in the area. He vigorously defended his interests, even taking a man to court because he reportedly cut timber from Hatfield's lands. Hatfield won his suit against Perry Cline, a friend of and relative-by-marriage to Randolph "Randall" McCoy, his future nemesis.
Like the Hatfields, the McCoys had been early settlers in the area, but mostly lived on the Kentucky side of the river. Most experts agree that the infamous Hatfield-McCoy feud began with another court case. Another cousin, Preacher Anse Hatfield, the local justice of the peace, presided over the trial. In the interest of fairness, he created a jury of six Hatfields and six McCoys.
The jury found Floyd Hatfield not guilty, and Randall McCoy and some of his family blamed the Hatfields for this defeat.
Hatfield-McCoy tensions flared again two years later. She refused to come back for several months, but she finally gave up when she figured out that Johnse was never going to marry her. According to some reports, Devil Anse objected to the couple marrying.
Roseanna went to live with her aunt back in Kentucky. She kept seeing Johnse and gave birth to his baby, who later died. One night, some of the McCoys caught up with Roseanna and Johnse. They said that they were going to take him to jail for moonshining, but she thought that they were going to kill Johnse.
Roseanna went off to tell the Hatfields, and Devil Anse organized a rescue party. The Hatfields met up with the McCoys and secured Johnse's release. Tolbert repeatedly stabbed Ellison, as did his two brothers, Pharmer and Randolph Jr. Ellison was also shot once in the altercation. Although they ended the feud in and shook hands in , Saturday, June 14, , marked the official end to the Hatfields and McCoys' feud when the families signed a truce, in an event broadcast by the The Saturday Early Show.
In , three of McCoy's sons killed a Hatfield in a fight, and they, in turn, were shot to death by some Hatfields in revenge. Randall McCoy nearly died in when a group of Hatfields attacked his home. In all, he lost five of his children in the feud.
McCoy died in Ellison Mounts was hanged for Alifair's death , and the feud seemed to settle down after that. But by the time all was said and done, at least 13 Hatfields and McCoys had died —all over a pig, it seems. How did Devil Anse get his name? 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.
When did McCoy die? March 28, Who won Hatfield or McCoy? Anse won the land dispute and was granted Cline's entire 5,acre plot of land. Are there any Hatfields and McCoys alive today? So the answer is yes.
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