Note:
!"Hatfields & Phillips Families" by Harry Leon Sellards, 1993;
!"Hatfield" by H.L. Sellards, Jr.
Basil was County Judge and Sheriff of Pike Co, KY Family lived on Upper johns
Creek, Pike, KY, Logan Co., WV in 1910 and at Williamson, WV.
jugde in Pike Co. Ky during the feud
55. Wallace H. "Wallas" Hatfield
Note: Wallace Hatfield directed removal of the bodies of the three McCoys (Tolbert, Pharmer and Randolph) that had been murdered by Devil Anse Hatfield and his band for the murder of Ellison Hatfield (brother of Devil Anse) on 8/9/1882. Wallace had commented in later years that it was the heaviest load he ever had hauled.
Sources:
Title: GEDCOM file imported on 8 Sep 1998.
Abbrev: Imported GEDCOM file
Notes for Samuel Smith , Jr.:
Samuel was a Primitive Baptist Minister.In 1839 Cabell County Deed Book, Peter and Fanny Newman sell 75 acres on Price's Mill Creek to Samuel Smith.
Notes from Allen C. Smith's tellings of his grandfather:
He was born on July 4, 1829 and died June 25, 1898. He lived the life of a great man. He was 15 when he first joined church, and 16 when he married his first wife, Almarinda Newman, in 1845. Almarinda didn't live long enough to give Samuel children and see him become a preacher at 18. After she died, Samuel married Mary A. Riffe in 1857. Its from her, my branch descended, through her son Alexander. I understand that Samuel fought in the Civil War. He died of an unknown disease, but he was sick for a long time. At his death, Samuel told one of his sons, "I love you better than you love yourself," and he told George Riffe, "I am traveling through the shadow of death. Don't you wish you could go with me?"