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543. Leander Lee Ellis Grimmett
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545. Elvira Grimmett
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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.
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166. Thomas Justice
They had the following children:
M i George W. Justice was born in 1855.
F ii Delilah Justice was born in 1857.
F iii Laura Catherine Justice was born on 11 Jun 1860. She died on 2 M ay 1928.
M iv Lee Justice was born in 1866 in Logan Co.,WV. [Notes]
F v Minnie Justice was born in 1868 in Logan Co.,WV. [Notes]
M vi Scott Justice was born in 1871 in Logan Co.,WV. [Notes]
M vii James Justice was born in 1875 in Logan Co.,WV. [Notes]
JUSTICE John Nov 3, 1877
Bailey, Martha F. Justice
b. 1845
d. Jun. 7, 1920
Beavers Cemetery
Baileysville
Wyoming Co
West Virginia
Capt. Theodore Freeling (Fielding) Bailey
Event: Alt. Birth 1841 Tombstone Event: Alt. Death 1925 Tombstone Military Service: Co. G 22nd Va Reg Inf.
Served during the Civil War in Company H, 8th Regiment Virginia Cavalry,
"Tazewell Troops, " organized July, 1861. From the Virginia Regimental
Histories; 22nd Virginia Infantry: "Company G - "Wyoming Riflemen" -
This group formerly called Company H, was from Wyoming Co. and was
mustered in State service for one year June 28, 1861, at Kanawha Court
House (Charleton). On the regimental morning reports for July 7-8, 1861,
they reported as a company of the unorganized 3rd Kanawha Regiment,
Colonel Christopher Q. Tompkins commanding. On the August 31, 1861 roll,
11 men are sown as having enlisted July 7, 1861, all apparently having
transferred to this company from Captain William T. Sarver's Company of
the 3rd Kanawha on July 25, 1861. Sarver's company is believed to have
broken up at about that time. Captain: Erastus A. Duncan, James A.
Cook, Montraville P. Roach. Lieutenants: Floyd McDonald, Floyd S. Gore,
Theodore F. Bailey, John Johnson plus two enlisted men: Andrew P. Gadd,
and Sanford P. Gadd.Captain Theodore F. Bailey, in a letter to the Rev. G. P. Goode,
historian, dated January 20, 1913, said: "In 1861, I volunteered in the
Rebel Army, and was made a lieutenant in Company G, 22nd Regiment,
Infantry, and served during the war. I was in a great many battles and
engagements: Cross Lanes, Carnifex Ferry, Big Sewell, Broad Ford, Droop
Mountain, Fisher's Hill, Winchester, Beverly, Petersburg (W Va), and
Lynchburg - so many I can't remember all... I returned home at the close
of the war and in 1866, Miss Martha Justice and I were married, to this
union were born four boys and one girl - Lee P., John J., W. Cal, Robert
D., and Gold (Mrs. Will G. Cook). I have always lived on the old farm of
my father (James Bailey, Jr.) and the old slave plantation of my
grandfather, James Bailey, Sr. I have been a farmer, merchant,
ferryman, and hotel proprietor, a schoolteacher, and served one term as
Co. superintendent of schools from 1873 to 1875." In addition, he
served as deputy sheriff and postmaster at Baileysville.Honorably discharged from service, Theodore returned home somewhat the
worse for wear, having received a wound which caused loss of sight in one
eye and being very thin and ill from privations and hardships of army
service.BEAVERS FAMILY CEMETERY, Baileysville, Wyoming Co., WV
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wv/wyoming/cemetery/beavrfam.txt
Served during the Civil War in Company H, 8th Regiment Virginia Cavalry, "
Tazewell Troops, " organized July, 1861. From the Virginia Regimental His
tories; 22nd Virginia Infantry: "Company G - "Wyoming Riflemen" - This gr
oup formerly called Company H, was from Wyoming County and was muster
ed in State service for one year June 28, 1861, at Kanawha Court House (Ch
arleton). On the regimental morning reports for July 7-8, 1861, they repo
rted as a company of the unorganized 3rd Kanawha Regiment, Colonel Christo
pher Q. Tompkins commanding. On the August 31, 1861 roll, 11 men are sho
wn as having enlisted July 7, 1861, all apparently having transferred to t
his company from Captain William T. Sarver's Company of the 3rd Kanaw
ha on July 25, 1861. Sarver's company is believed to have broken up at ab
out that time. Captain: Erastus A. Duncan, James A. Cook, Montravil
le P. Roach. Lieutenants: Floyd McDonald, Floyd S. Gore, Theodore F. Bai
ley, John Johnson plus two enlisted men: Andrew P. Gadd, and Sanford P. G
add.Captain Theodore F. Bailey, in a letter to the Rev. G. P. Goode, historia
n, dated January 20, 1913, said: "In 1861, I volunteered in the Rebel Arm
y, and was made a lieutenant in Company G, 22nd Regiment, Infantry, and se
rved during the war. I was in a great many battles and engagements: Cro
ss Lanes, Carnifex Ferry, Big Sewell, Broad Ford, Droop Mountain, Fisher
's Hill, Winchester, Beverly, Petersburg (W Va), and Lynchburg - so ma
ny I can't remember all... I returned home at the close of the war a
nd in 1866, Miss Martha Justice and I were married, to this union were bo
rn four boys and one girl - Lee P., John J., W. Cal, Robert D., and Gold (
Mrs. Will G. Cook). I have always lived on the old farm of my father (Jam
es Bailey, Jr.) and the old slave plantation of my grandfather, James Bail
ey, Sr. I have been a farmer, merchant, ferryman, and hotel proprieto
r, a schoolteacher, and served one term as county superintendent of schoo
ls from 1873 to 1875." In addition, he served as deputy sheriff and postm
aster at Baileysville.Honorably discharged from service, Theodore returned home somewhat the wor
se for wear, having received a wound which caused loss of sight in one e
ye and being very thin and ill from privations and hardships of army servi
ce.In 1866 he taught the first free school in his home district and the sa
me year he married Martha Justice of Logan County. They set up their ho
me at Baileysville in a four room long house on land he had received fr
om his father. He cleared and farmed more fields at the Dave's Branch pla
ce and also farmed on the John J. Bailey place, raised cattle, sheep and o
xen, which grazed on his farm, and raised from 1,500 to 1, 800 bushe
ls of corn a year, hay, and other feed to feed his stock through the winte
r, and fatten hogs. Martha carded, spun, and wove linsey cloth for home u
se and to trade at Brownstown, where they procured salt and other necessit
ies.Theodore and other Confederates bitterly resented the Test Oath Law. Up
on its repeal in 1870 he was elected county superintendent of schools a
nd energetically set about building up school facilities; successfully def
ended a law suit against the board for laying special levy for teachers a
nd new bulldings; and established the first Negro school in Wyoming County
.His store, established around 1870, was the first public building in his c
ommunity. Elections and public meetings were held at his place. He secur
ed establishment of Baileysville Post Office in 1870, was its first postma
ster, and kept the office in his store. He was commissioned a Notary Publ
ic in 1884; elected first Justice of the Peace of Baileysville District up
on its establishment in 1872; appointed deputy sheriff under W. B. Shanno
n, sheriff, in 1885 and served two terms on the Wyoming County Board of He
alth, and held that position during the smallpox epidemic of 1883. The B
ailey gristmill, built around 1830, continued in operation. As early as 1
871 there was popular demand for a ferry across the Guyandotte River at Ba
ileysville, and it was authorized by the county court, but no ferry was established there until 1892. In the early eighteen-nineties, Theordore eng
aged in timbering for some years.In 1876 he was granted license to "keep hotel" at his home, but not to se
ll "spirits." In connection with his hotel, he kept a livery stable, a ne
cessity since practically all travel was by horseback. At Davy, t
he N. & W. railhead after 1888, John W. Cline ran a hotel and livery stabl
e. Mail was carried from Davy to Baileysville and beyond, on horsebac
k. Travelers hired a horse at Cline's stable for fifty cents a day, le
ft it at Baileysville, and Bailey returned the horse to Cline next d
ay by the mail carrier, who charged 25 cents for leading him back to Dav
y.In 1908 Theodore built a sixteen room frame Bailey Hotel, which was run "c
ountry style," with bountiful meals set on a long table where guests and f
amily sat down together. He continued to operate the hotel until Martha
's death in 1920.During all these years Theodore and Martha were active in the Southern Met
hodist Church and Sunday School, which was established by the family in 18
49 and generously financed by succeeding generations.According to Rev. G. P. Goode, Wyoming County Historian, Capt. James Shannon, son-in-law of Edward McDonald and whose wife was Mary McDonald, ca
me to Wyoming County in 1802 and settled on the Big Fork of Guyandote ne
ar the McDonald slave plantations, prior to the Civil War, four salve plan
tations were established in present Wyoming County: (1) Edward McDona
ld on the Big Bottom Fork with about 60 Negro slaves in 1863; (2) Capt. Ja
mes Shannon, on the Big Fork at present Brenton, with about 20 slaves; (
3) James Bailey, Sr. and James Jr., at Baileysville with about 10 slave
s; and Little Jack Cook on Big Huff Creek with 6 or 8 slaves. Lincoln's E
mancipation of 1863 did not free the slaves in the new State of West Virgi
nia. The Bill of Adoption provided for gradual emancipation, but in a sho
rt time they were all free. In 1872 Jack McDonald, an ex-slave bought fr
om Col. Harman Newberryi, for $1,000.00, 245 acres of land on Laurel Bran
ch and gathered up about 20 or 25 of the ex-slaves of Edward McDonald a
nd Capt. James Shannon and settled them as tenants on his lands. In 18
86 Capt . T. F. Bailey secured for them the first negro school in Wyomi
ng County. Capt. Shannon was a justice tht took part in the organizati
on of Logan County in 1824 and also of Wyioming County in 1850. He sign
ed the court records as President up to 1861. Capt. Shannon died a poor m
an at the age of 94 years and he's buried upon the hill near his old ho
me in an unmarked grave. However, his name is on the bronze marker at t
he grave of John Cook II, below Oceana.Title: Kith and Kin of Boone County, West Virginia: Volume XIX
Publication: Boone County Genealogical Society, 1993
Repository:
Media: Book
Text: Delilah Gore
1. Jordan E Gore
Delilah Gore & James Bailey, JR.
1. Henderson Bailey, b. c1826, d. c1901, m. Peggy Ellis
2. Perry A Bailey, b. c1828, d. c1918, m. Corby Shannon
3. John Bailey, b. c1830, d. c1915, m. Laura Olive Pierce
4. Ingabo Bailey, b. 29 Jan 1832, d. c1907, m. Thomas Justice, b. 15 Jun 1934 in KY, s/o James & Jane (Hatfield) Justice; 8 ch.
5. Joseph Bailey, b. Oct1835, d. c1913, twin, m. Sally Dowd
6. Miles H Bailey, b. Oct1835, d. c1926, m. Virginia Dowd
7. Alexander Bailey, b. c1837, d. c1877
8. Theodore P Bailey, b. c1839, d. c1926, m. c1866 Martha F Justice, b. c1846, d/o James & Jane (Hatfield) Justice
9. James B Bailey, III, b. c1845, d. c1936, m. Elizabeth Justice, 1 ch.
10. Martha Bailey, b. c1841, d. c1921, m. Newson Shannon
11. Margaret Bailey, b. c1844, d. c1924, twin, m. 26 Mar 1865 John Acord, b. c1841, s/o Robert T & Nancy (Gore) Acord
12. Rena Bailey, b. c1844, d. young, twin
13. Catherine Bailey, d. ae 40 y, m. Larkin (Gore) Bailey, b. c1840, s/o James & Jane (Hatfield) Justice
14. Amanda Bailey, d. ae 55y, m. Black B Cook
15. Susan E Bailey, b. c1852, m. William E Justice, b. c1849, s/o James & Jane (Hatfield) Justice; 5 ch., He m2. Thursa Browning
Title: 1850 Federal Population Census: Virginia: Wyoming County
Author: National Archives & Records Administration
Repository:
Note: Western Reserve Historical Society
Media: MicrofilmText: p. 211, District 71
Bailey, James, Esq., 40, farmer, 2000, VA
", Delilah, 40, VA
", Perry A, 22, Co. surveyor, VA
", John, 20, farming, VA
", Ingabo, 19, VA
", Joseph, 16, farming, VA
", Alexander, 14, VA
", Miles H, 13, VA
", Theodore, 10, VA
", Martha, 9, VA
", Margret, 6, VA
", Catherine, 5, VA
', James, 4, VA
", Manda E, 1, VA
Title: 1870 Federal Population Census: West Virginia: Wyoming County
Author: National Archives & Records Administration
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Note: Western Reserve Historical Society
Media: Microfilm
Text: p. 578, Clear Fork, Sunhill PO
p. 578, Clear Fork, Sunhill PO
Baily, Theodore P, 24, farmer, 355, VA
", Martha F, 25, keeping house, VA
", Leander, 1, VA
Title: 1860 Federal Population Census: Virginia: Wyoming County
Author: National Archives & Records Administration
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Media: MicrofilmText: p. 719, Sunhill PO
Bailey, James, 51, farmer, 1500, 890, Va
", Delila, 52, VA
", Alexander P, 23, farm laborer, VA
", Theodore, 21, farm laborer, VA
", Martha, 18, VA
", Margaret, 16, VA
", James, 14, VA
", Catherine, 12, VA
", Amanda E, 11, VA
Pine, Malinda, 28, 530, VA
Bailey, Leander P. "Lee"
b. Nov. 2, 1868
d. Jul. 3, 1947
Beavers Cemetery
Baileysville
Wyoming Co
West Virginia[Baileytest.FTW]Lee's occupations were farmer, merchant, teacher, and traveling salesman.
572. Orie S. Bailey
Bailey, Orie S.
b. Dec. 5, 1873
d. May 30, 1875
Beavers Cemetery
Baileysville
Wyoming Co
West Virginia17 month old son of Thomas Freeling Bailey (1839-1926) and Martha F. Justi ce Bailey (1845-1920).
Baby brother Leander P. "Lee" Bailey (1868-1947),
John Jay Bailey (B. 1876),
William Calhoun Bailey (B. 1877),
Goldie Augusta Bailey (1879-1969) &
Robinson Darius "Robert" Bailey Sr. (1883-1961).
179. Elizabeth "Lizzy" Justice
Bailey, Elizabeth Justice
b. Sep. 16, 1854
d. Oct. 24, 1902
Beavers Cemetery
Baileysville
Wyoming Co
West Virginia
Daughter of James A. Justice Sr (B. 1814) and VIrginia Jane "Jennie" Hatfi eld Justice (1813-1886).Sister of Thomas Justice (B. 1834), John Justice (B. 1836), Levicy Justi ce (B. 1838), Larkin Justice (B. 1840), Benjamin Justice (B. 1842), Mary J ustice (B. 1844), Martha F. Justice (1845-1920), James A. Justice Jr. ( B. 1848), & William Epperson Justice (1849-1920).
Married to James S. Bailey (1844-1902) on Dec. 22, 1870.
Mother of Lilly Belle Bailey (1871-1907), Alexander Bailey (B. 1873), Ot is Van Buren Bailey (1876-1967), Molly Virginia Margaret Bailey (1879-1937 ), Thomas Leander "Lee" Bailey Sr. (1883-1964), Goldie Augusta Bailey ( B. 1886), & Zina D. Bailey (1893-1975).
[Baileytest.FTW]
James served in Company G, 22nd Virginia Infantry Regiment, CSA.Bailey, James S.
b. Nov. 5, 1844
d. Feb. 14, 1936
Beavers Cemetery
Baileysville
Wyoming Co
West VirginiaFather of
Lilly Belle Bailey (1871-1907),
Alexander Bailey (B. 1873),
Otis Van Buren Bailey (1876-1967),
Molly Virginia Margaret Bailey (1879-1937),
Thomas Leander "Lee" Bailey Sr. (1883-1964),
Goldie Augusta Bailey (B. 1886), &
Zina D. Bailey (1893-1975).1880 United States Federal Census
about James S. Bailey
Name: James S. Bailey
Home in 1880: Clear Fork, Wyoming Co., WV
Age: 34
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1846
Birthplace: West Virginia
Relation to head-of-household: Self (Head)
Spouse's name: Elizabeth
Father's birthplace: West Virginia
Mother's Name: Delilah
Mother's birthplace: West Virginia
Neighbors: View others on page
Occupation: Farmer
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
James S. Bailey 34
Elizabeth Bailey 24
Lillie B. Bailey 6
Alexander Bailey 5
Otis V. Bailey 4
Mollie Bailey 11M
Henry Collins 19
Delilah Bailey 731900 United States Federal Census
about James S Baily
Name: James S Baily
[James S Bailey]
Home in 1900: Baileysville, Wyoming Co., WV
Age: 54
Birth Date: Sep 1845
Birthplace: West Virginia
Race: White
Ethnicity: American
Gender: Male
Relationship to head-of-house: Head
Father's Birthplace: West Virginia
Mother's Birthplace: West Virginia
Spouse's name: Elizabeth
Marriage Year: 1871
Marital Status: Married
Years Married: 29
Residence : Baileysville District, Wyoming Co., WV
Occupation: View on Image
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
James S Baily 54
Elizabeth Baily 45
Alexander Baily 26
Thomas L Baily 16
Goldie A Baily 14
Zina D Baily 5
William McCarty 19
They had the following children:
F i Nellie G. Cook was born in 1907 in Wyoming Co.,WV. [Notes]
M ii Raymond Cook was born in 1910 in Wyoming Co.,WV. [Notes]
M iii Willis W. Cook was born in 1916 in Wyoming Co., WV [Notes]
182. Valentine "Uncle Wall" Hatfield
Note: Cause of Death: Died of Starvation in Jail, Lexington, Kentucky 1
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185. "Devil Anse" William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield
Ruling the West Virginia bank was Capt. William Anderson (Devil Anse) Hatfield, also tall, gray-eyed and bearded, with a striking resemblance to Stonewall Jackson. Gifted with an innate talent for tall tales, a love of pranks and almost clownish sense of humor, the former Confederate officer was a legend in his own time, thanks to his incredible marksmanship and legendary feats.
With finite detail in his book, "The Hatfields & The McCoys," Virgil Carrington Jones describes an instance when Devil Anse single-handedly cowed a large band of Union soldiers from his perch on a mountaintop. Methodically pivoting from one position to another and with unerring accuracy, he held them at bay in the ravine below until the band, under cover of darkness, turned tail and silently stole away.
Once described as a man who had "never killed anyone just for the pleasure of it," it's told that at some point in his youth, Devil Anse came across a sleeping bear and kicked it to consciousness, apparently for the sport of it. He then stood guard over it, without food, drink or ammunition, through two days and a night. When worried family and friends rescued him, he insisted the food go first to his dogs, then shot the animal in its hiding place and vowed, according to some accounts, that after such an adventure he was "ready to face the devil." Apochryphal perhaps, but a good fit for the nickname he would carry later in life.
Like McCoy a prolific father, Hatfield and his wife Levicy filled their home with 13 children, four daughters and nine sons. It was his oldest, Johnson (Johnse), who would become Roseanna McCoy's object of love, lust and broken dreams. Yet the senior Hatfield and McCoy were not, by nature, totally at odds. At the heart of it, each was a "simple, hospitable mountaineer. . . affectionate and home-loving." And perhaps sharing the same mortal flaw: an overpowering family pride that grew to murderous proportions in sons who were too quick to take offense and too stubborn to forgive.The Divided Banks
If only there had been no war . . .
If only the neighbors had all fought together . . .But reality was bitter. With West Virginia's admittance to the Union in 1863, Devil Anse Hatfield realized that, as a Southern sympathizer, he, his family and property were in real danger. Now, in the name of home defense, he formed the Logan Wildcats, which as one of the most feared guerrilla bands to patrol the Tug's banks, too often forgot its honorable objective and cashed in on the less-than-honorable spoils of war. In a tit-for-tat aggression, guerrillas from both sides seized and stole hogs and horses and hides. Always, in the midst of the fracas, McCoys and Hatfields took turns as victims and attackers. And always, the clans' hostilities grew to increasingly dangerous new heights.
Finally, on Jan. 7, 1865, they claimed their first victim.
A Union veteran who had waited two years to enlist, Harmon McCoy, younger brother of Ole Ran'l, had defied his family's loyalties by joining Northern forces as a private for 12 months.
Suffering a broken leg and discharged on Christmas Eve 1864, he returned home to a chilly welcome and a chilly warning from Devil Anse's ruthless uncle, Jim Vance, that he could expect a visit from Devil Anse's Wildcats.
Frightened by gunshots as he drew water from his well, Harmon hid in a nearby cave, supplied with food and necessities each day by his slave, Pete. But Harmon's fate was sealed. His tormentors followed Pete's tracks in the snow, discovered the ailing Harmon and shot him dead.
At first, Devil Anse Hatfield was the prime suspect.
Later, after finding the Wildcats' leader had been confined to his bed, the guilt turned squarely on Vance and, according to some accounts, "Wheeler" Wilson, the real gunman. But in an area where Harmon's military service was an act of disloyalty, even his family believed the man had brought his murder on himself.
In the end, the case died with no suspect brought to trial.
Even so, it was a frightening reminder of the brutality that the families' hostilities could bring to life.
A Pig in Court
For 13 years, peace reigned along the Tug.
With the passing of time, Hatfields and McCoys forgot the tensions and injustices of the war years. Again, the families intermarried. Even the patriarchs, with Ole Ran'l considerably older, added to their expansive families.In West Virginia, times were good. Devil Anse's logging enterprise prospered and his crew grew to 30 men. Through a lawsuit against Perry Cline, he gained 5,000 acres along Grapevine Creek, turning him into one of Logan County's wealthiest men.
But near Kentucky's Blackberry Creek, the tide was about to turn.
It happened one autumn day in 1878 when Ole Ran'l stopped to visit a Kentucky Hatfield, his wife's brother-in-law, Floyd. There Ran'l spotted a familiar-looking pig and claimed it as his own, accusing Floyd of theft. (Pigs in those days roamed free until herding time, marked only with an identifying ear notch.) Tempers flared and soon the two faced off in court.
Ironically, Preacher Ans Hatfield, a hard-shell Baptist minister and justice of the peace, presided over the jury of six McCoys, six Hatfields and a courtroom littered with jugs and rifles. The final verdict rested on the testimony of Bill Staton, a nephew of Ole Ran'l and brother-in-law of Ellison Hatfield, who swore to Floyd Hatfield's ownership.
It was enough. Floyd won.
But Staton was marked for death. Within months he found it at the hands of Paris and Sam McCoy. Though Sam was tried for the shooting in a Hatfield court, which writers believe Devil Anse had instructed to acquit for the sake of peace, the gesture was futile. The Mc-Coys were en-raged that Sam had stood trial at all. Instead of gratitude, they felt an even greater hatred for the Hatfield clan, and it would take little more for the seething frustrations to burst into all-out war.
Enter Romeo and Juliet
Against this background of bubbling resentment, nothing could seem more foolhardy than a love affair between a daughter of Ole Ran'l and a son of Devil Anse.
But Roseanna McCoy was not wise.By the best measure, the spring election of 1880 proved her downfall.
To mountain folk, elections were great social events. Men came to swap goods and stories, to drink and laugh and doze in the sun. The women grabbed the chance to visit, gossip and show off their gingerbread, a token bribe to influence votes of their choice. All in all, elections were not to be missed.
IDNO: 31381
Note: Johnse is one of the most legendary figures in the history of the entire Appalachian region, certainly one of the most famous people in the history of West Virginia. The oldest son of "Devil Anse" Hatfield, Johnse has been called the "Romeo of the Mountains", after Roseanna McCoy ran off with him on election day in 1880. That event was one of the most important in the Hatfield and McCoy feud. Baptism: Baptized by "Uncle Dyke" Garrett Burial: Hatfield Cemetery, Sarah Ann, West Virginia Cause of Death: Heart Attack Religion: Hardshell BaptistDeclaration of War
In little more than a year, the Hatfield-McCoy feud would burst into flames, perhaps not coincidentally at Jerry Hatfield's home during the 1882 election.
There in the shadow of Roseanna's first blush of love, her brothers, Tolbert, Pharmer and Bud, would, without seeming provocation, stab Devil Anse's brother Ellison 26 times and finish him with a shot in the back. After his death three days later, the trio paid with their own lives, tied to paw paw bushes and riddled with bullets, despite their mother's cries for mercy.Soon after, when the Hatfields decided someone was leaking their plans, they turned on Nancy McCoy Hatfield's sister, Mary Elliott, bursting into her home and switching her and her daughter with a cow's tail. When her brother Jeff McCoy tried to seek revenge, he was arrested, escaped and quickly shot at the banks of the Tug.
Before the feud's end around 1891, the death toll numbered 13.
To answer a legion of real and imagined wrongs from Ole Ran'l and with considerable influence from his political ally Perry Cline Ð the man who had lost 5,000 acres to Devil Anse so long before Ð Kentucky's governor appointed special officer Frank Phillips in 1887 to arrest the murderers of the McCoy brothers. To sweeten the pot, he also offered outlandish reward money that unleashed an army of bounty hunters on the West Virginia ridges.
Determined to leave no living witnesses to convict them of their crime, the Hatfields raided the McCoy family home on New Year's Day 1888, killing daughter Alifair and son Calvin and burning the cabin to the ground.
Suddenly public opinion shifted against the Hatfields, and Phillips began his work with glee and new names on his list, though he lacked properly executed extradition papers.
In response, West Virginia's governor put up his own reward offers, sued his neighboring state for unlawful arrest of nine prisoners and eventually saw the case to the United States Supreme Court before the men were returned to Kentucky for sentences of death and prison terms.
But there was little joy at the verdicts.
Roseanna herself was gone. After tending her mother's wounds from the New Year's Day raid, Roseanna grew more and more depressed, slipping away from life soon after. Less than 30 at her death, she lies today buried in Dils Cemetery at Pikeville.
In a twist of fate, Johnse Mc-Coy, convicted separately and later than the others of feud crimes, was pardoned when he saved the life of Lt. Gov. William Pryor Thorne as the latter was attacked by an inmate during the official's prison inspection. Johnse's wife Nancy had long since left him, moved in with and, upon the pair's mutual divorces, eventually married his pursuer, Frank Phillips. She died at 36.
The evil Jim Vance was killed in the feud. His young comrade, Cap Hatfield, went on to become an attorney and the father of Logan County's first woman lawyer.
And Those Left Untouched
When the smoke had cleared, there remained the greatest irony of all. With all the bloodshed around them, both Devil Anse and Ole Ran'l were left unharmed. Both lived well into their 80s. Randolph McCoy died of burns on March 28, 1914. Devil Anse, who had become a baptized, born-again Christian in 1911, succumbed to pneumonia on Jan. 6, 1921. His funeral, at Sarah Ann, W.Va. was the largest ever held in Logan County.
Descendants of both men have gone on to honor their states and nation as governors, educators and physicians.This past December, the site of Devil Anse Hatfield's burial was dedicated as a national monument. It's not known how many McCoys were in attendance.
Note: "Devil Anse" Hatfield is the most famous person in the history of southwestern West Virginia. He became a legend in his own lifetime. He was the leader of the Hatfields during the famous Hatfield and McCoy feud. Baptism: 1911, Baptized by "Uncle Dyke" Garrett Burial: Hatfield Cemetery, Sarah Ann, West Virginia Religion: Hardshell Baptist Anse served as First Lieutenant of Company "B", 45th Bat. during the civil war. He is known as the leader of the Hatfield Clan during the Hatfield and McCoy affair. Anse owned a large number of acres of timberland in Logan County, WV. He married Levisa "Levisy" Chafin, born December 20, 1842 in Ky., the daughter of Nathaniel "Nathan" and Matilda Varney Chafin. She died of myrocaditis, March 5, 1929. Anse died of pneumonia of Jan 7, 1921. Both are buried at Sarah Ann, WV in the Hatfield Cemetery. Hatfield and McCoy families, two American Appalachion mountaineer families who, with their kinfolk and neighbours, engaged in a legendary feud that attracted nationwide attention in the 1880s and '90s and prompted judicial and police actions, one of which drew an appeal up to the US Supreme Court (1888). The Hatfields were headed by William Anderson ("Devil Anse") Hatifield (1839-1921) and the McCoys by randolph ("Rand'l") McCoy (1839?-1921). Each fathered 13 children (some sources claim 16 for McCoy), and each family had numerous kinfolk and allies in the respective counties in which they lived. The origins of the fued are obscure. The families lived on opposite sides of a border stream, the Tug Fork - the McCoys in Pike Co., KY, and the Hatfields in Logan Co. (or Mingo Co., formed from a portion of Logan Co. in 1895), West Virginia. In the American Civil War, the McCoys were Unionists and the Hatfields were Confederates. However, although animosities had built up and occasional fights had broken out, the first major bloodletting did not occur until 1882, when Ellison Hatfield, a son of Devil Anse, was mortally shot in a brawl with McCoys and, in revenge, the Hatfields kidnapped and executed three McCoy brothers - Tolbert, Phamer, and Randolph, Jr. These murders sharpened the backwoods warfare, and thereafter Hatfields and McCoys repeatedly ambushed and killed each other. Hatfields arrested in their home county and McCoys arrested in their home county were invariably released or acquitted of their deeds because of their respective local support and influence. Fighting reached a climax in 1888. On New Year's Day a group of Hatfields led by Jim Vance (Devil Anse's brother [actually, "Bad Jim" was his uncle, not brother]) attacked the home of patriarch Rand'l McCoy, missing him but shooting dead a son and a daughter and burning his houses. In retaliation, a posse of McCoys and neighbours, headed by a Pike Co. deputy sheriff, made successive raids across the border into West Virginia, killing Jim Vance and at least three others, battling with a West Virginia posse, and eventually rounding up nine of the Hatfield clan for indictment and trial in Kentucky. West Virginia filed suit in federal court, charging kidnapping and lawlessness; Kentucky defended the abduction; and newspapers all over the country began carrying front-page stories of the fued and sending in reporters. Finally, in May 1888, a divided US Supreme Court ruled (in Plyant Mahon v. Abner Justice, jailer of Pike Co., KY) that Kentucky had the legal right to detain the accused for trial. The trials, later in the year, resulted in convictions and in one sentence of death by hanging and eight sentences of imprisonment. Although there were flare-ups thereafter, notably in 1896-97, the fueding gradually abated and had ended by the second decade of the 20th century. The Hatfield-McCoy legend was embellished by a brief love affair about 1880 between Johnson ("Johnse") Hatfield and Rose Ann McCoy - an affair that was opposed and eventually broken up by the McCoys. Newspapers turned it into a Romeo-and-Juliet romance. *********** Nickname: "Devil Anse" In the morning of New Year's Day, 1921, Anse felt unwell after eating breakfast. He went out on the front porch and sat for a while. His grandson Joe caldwell, Betty's boy, sat near him to keep him company. They exchanged a few remarks. Anse fingered the cane he now used. Presently Joe came inside with the news that his grandfather was unable to speak. He had suffered a stroke. He was carried to his bed, and a doctor was brought. Five days later he succumed to pneumonia. Not long after their fathers death, Joe and Tennis Hatfield commissioned through a monument company in Huntington a life-sized statue of Anse, of Carrara marble, fashioned in Italy using photographs they provided. They paid #3, 500.00 for this statue. The statue was hauled by mule team on the last leg of it long journey to the Hatfield family cemetery on Island Creek, above the hamlet of Sarah Ann. The family has professed to see a likeness of Anse in the bearded figure of Latinized visage, expressionless, arms at the sides, constrained in frock coat, leggings and other dry goods, that stands on a tiered pedestal bearing the surname "HATFIELD" in large letters, by the head of his grave and that of Vicy, who followed him there in 1929. Anse died at the age of 82 and Vicy at the age of 87. Vicys full name is on the marker with her birth and death dates, 1842-1929, but Anse is identified as Capt. Anderson Hatfield, 1839-1921, not bearing his first name but the name he was known as in the Civil War. The monument list the names of their 13 Children. William Anderson Hatfield was called "Devil Anse" by some, but by his family he was called "Cap".
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Date: 30 APR 2003Note: "Devil Anse" Hatfield is the most famous person in the history of southwestern West Virginia. He became a legend in his own lifetime. He was the leader of the Hatfields during the famous Hatfield and McCoy feud. Baptism: 1911, Baptized by "Uncle Dyke" Garrett Burial: Hatfield Cemetery, Sarah Ann, West Virginia Religion: Hardshell Baptist Anse served as First Lieutenant of Company "B", 45th Bat. during the civil war. He is known as the leader of the Hatfield Clan during the Hatfield and McCoy affair. Anse owned a large number of acres of timberland in Logan County, WV. He married Levisa "Levisy" Chafin, born December 20, 1842 in Ky., the daughter of Nathaniel "Nathan" and Matilda Varney Chafin. She died of myocaditis, March 5, 1929. Anse died of pneumonia of Jan 7, 1921. Both are buried at Sarah Ann, WV in the Hatfield Cemetery. Hatfield and McCoy families, two American Appalachion mountaineer families who, with their kinfolk and neighbours, engaged in a legendary feud that attracted nationwide attention in the 1880s and '90s and prompted judicial and police actions, one of which drew an appeal up to the US Supreme Court (1888). The Hatfields were headed by William Anderson ("Devil Anse") Hatifield (1839-1921) and the McCoys by randolph ("Rand'l") McCoy (1839?-1921). Each fathered 13 children (some sources claim 16 for McCoy), and each family had numerous kinfolk and allies in the respective counties in which they lived. The origins of the fued are obscure. The families lived on opposite sides of a border stream, the Tug Fork - the McCoys in Pike Co., KY, and the Hatfields in Logan Co. (or Mingo Co., formed from a portion of Logan Co. in 1895), West Virginia. In the American Civil War, the McCoys were Unionists and the Hatfields were Confederates. However, although animosities had built up and occasional fights had broken out, the first major bloodletting did not occur until 1882, when Ellison Hatfield, a son of Devil Anse, was mortally shot in a brawl with McCoys and, in revenge, the Hatfields kidnapped and executed three McCoy brothers - Tolbert, Phamer, and Randolph, Jr. These murders sharpened the backwoods warfare, and thereafter Hatfields and McCoys repeatedly ambushed and killed each other. Hatfields arrested in their home county and McCoys arrested in their home county were invariably released or acquitted of their deeds because of their respective local support and influence. Fighting reached a climax in 1888. On New Year's Day a group of Hatfields led by Jim Vance (Devil Anse's brother [actually, "Bad Jim" was his uncle, not brother]) attacked the home of patriarch Rand'l McCoy, missing him but shooting dead a son and a daughter and burning his houses. In retaliation, a posse of McCoys and neighbours, headed by a Pike Co. deputy sheriff, made successive raids across the border into West Virginia, killing Jim Vance and at least three others, battling with a West Virginia posse, and eventually rounding up nine of the Hatfield clan for indictment and trial in Kentucky. West Virginia filed suit in federal court, charging kidnapping and lawlessness; Kentucky defended the abduction; and newspapers all over the country began carrying front-page stories of the fued and sending in reporters. Finally, in May 1888, a divided US Supreme Court ruled (in Plyant Mahon v. Abner Justice, jailer of Pike Co., KY) that Kentucky had the legal right to detain the accused for trial. The trials, later in the year, resulted in convictions and in one sentence of death by hanging and eight sentences of imprisonment. Although there were flare-ups thereafter, notably in 1896-97, the fueding gradually abated and had ended by the second decade of the 20th century. The Hatfield-McCoy legend was embellished by a brief love affair about 1880 between Johnson ("Johnse") Hatfield and Rose Ann McCoy - an affair that was opposed and eventually broken up by the McCoys. Newspapers turned it into a Romeo-and-Juliet romance. *********** Nickname: "Devil Anse" In the morning of New Year's Day, 1921, Anse felt unwell after eating breakfast. He went out on the front porch and sat for a while. His grandson Joe caldwell, Betty's boy, sat near him to keep him company. They exchanged a few remarks. Anse fingered the cane he now used. Presently Joe came inside with the news that his grandfather was unable to speak. He had suffered a stroke. He was carried to his bed, and a doctor was brought. Five days later he succumed to pneumonia. Not long after their fathers death, Joe and Tennis Hatfield commissioned through a monument company in Huntington a life-sized statue of Anse, of Carrara marble, fashioned in Italy using photographs they provided. They paid #3, 500.00 for this statue. The statue was hauled by mule team on the last leg of it long journey to the Hatfield family cemetery on Island Creek, above the hamlet of Sarah Ann. The family has professed to see a likeness of Anse in the bearded figure of Latinized visage, expressionless, arms at the sides, constrained in frock coat, leggings and other dry goods, that stands on a tiered pedestal bearing the surname "HATFIELD" in large letters, by the head of his grave and that of Vicy, who followed him there in 1929. Anse died at the age of 82 and Vicy at the age of 87. Vicys full name is on the marker with her birth and death dates, 1842-1929, but Anse is identified as Capt. Anderson Hatfield, 1839-1921, not bearing his first name but the name he was known as in the Civil War. The monument list the names of their 13 Children. William Anderson Hatfield was called "Devil Anse" by some, but by his family he was called "Cap".
William "Devil Anse" Hatfield, patriarch of the Hatfield clan, has come to represent the stereotypical feuding mountaineer. However, contrary to popular opinion, Anse was far from primitive or uncivilized. After serving the Confederacy in the Civil War, the enterprising Anse became a relatively successful entrepreneur of a timbering operation. This line of business sparked many land disputes, a possible cause of the Hatfield -McCoy feud. No one really knows what started the 15-year skirmish, whose history has become fraught with many myths and misconceptions.
Per Paul Curry Steele in "Anse on Island Creek and Other Poems":
William was illiterate but had much mother wit. Contrary to the popular conception, Anse was not what is called a really big man. He missed by about twoinches being six feet tall. "He was awful strong and wiry," said Joe Hatfield.He kept his weight at around 175 pounds. He was very proud of his hair and full beard, grizzled now but once as black as a male cowbird. In idle moments he would take out a comb and carefully comb the chest-length beard. "He had brown eyes," a daughter-in-law said, "And I remember to this day how snapping they were."
In 1888, when he was almost fifty, notorious, wanted, and bone-weary of the feud, William Anderson ("Devil Anse") Hatfield, for greater safety nd in hopes of tranquillity, moved his family from their old homestead on the West Virginia side of Tug Fork, twenty-six miles upcountry, across mountain ridges and along narrow valleys, to a rude vastness deep in Logan County, distant from Kentucky and the McCoy clan, A wooded, seclusive, undeveloped tract of several hundred acres on Island Creek, where he would live for the rest of his life.
PORTRAIT OF A MOUNTAIN MAN
In American History and folklore, the Hatfield/McCoy feud has become a symbol for the backwardness and violence associated with Appalachia. Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield was the leader of the Hatfield clan and to many, a ruthless killer. Upon closer look, Devil Anse was a legendary Confederate officer and a strong willed family man with a keen sense for the mountains. The Hatfield family operated one of the most successful logging businesses in West Virginia. Many of the direct descendants of Devil Anse have gone on to become doctors, lawyers, teachers, engineers, insurance salesmen, and college athletic coaches.Anderson Hatfield was the second eldest son of Nancy and Ephriam "Big Eaf" Hatfield. He was born on September 9, 1839 in the rugged Tug Valley area of West Virginia. Anderson grew up in the mountains and developed a natural sense for the wild. He was a prankster and at an early age demonstrated his ability to shoot a gun, a skill that would help him through out his life.
It has been told that Anderson came across a sleeping bear and kicked it awake. He then held the bear at bay for two days. When worried family members found him, he said that he had to stand his ground because the bear would have killedhim if he tried to run away. He also said that after that incident he was "ready to face the devil", thus earning his nickname, Devil Anse.
On January 6th, 1861 Devil Anse married his childhood sweetheart, Levicy Chaffin. The following year, he picked up his rifle and enlisted in the regular Confederate Army. He became 1st Lieutenant in Company A, 45th Battalion, of the Virginia Infantry.Within a year, he had advanced to the ranks of Captain. Not long after that, he quit the Army. It has been rumored that he was ordered to shoot two officers who had been court martialed. One of the young men was his cousin, George Hatfield. He refused to kill one of his kin and left the army to avoid a court martial himself.
He returned home to West Virginia and found that both Confederates and Union soldiers had raided many homesteads. In order to protect the area,he formed the Logan Wildcats, one of the most feared guerrilla bands. It quickly became common knowledge not to go into the Tug
Anderson "Devil Anse" HatfieldA Portrait of a Mountain Man
In American History and folklore, the Hatfield/McCoy feud has become a symbol for the backwardness and violence associated with Appalachia. Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield was the leader of the Hatfield clan and to many, a ruthless killer. Upon closer look, Devil Anse was a legendary Confederate officer and a strong willed family man with a keen sense for the mountains. The Hatfield family operated one of the most successful logging businesses in West Virginia. Many of the direct descendants of Devil Anse have gone on to become doctors, lawyers, teachers, engineers, insurance salesmen, and college athletic coaches.
Anderson Hatfield was the second eldest son of Nancy and Ephriam "Big Eaf" Hatfield. He was born on September 9, 1839 in the rugged Tug Valley area of West Virginia. Anderson grew up in the mountains and developed a natural sense for the wild. He was a prankster and at an early age demonstrated his ability to shoot a gun, a skill that would help him throughout his life.
It has been told that Anderson came across a sleeping bear and kicked it awake. He then held the bear at bay for two days. When worried family members found him, he said that he had to stand his ground because the bear would have killed him if he tried to run away. He also said that after that incident he was "ready to face the devil", thus earning his nickname, Devil Anse.
On January 6th, 1861 Devil Anse married his childhood sweetheart, Levicy Chaffin. The following year, he picked up his rifle and enlisted in the regular Confederate Army. He became 1st Lieutenant in Company A, 45th Battalion, of the Virginia Infantry. Within a year, he had advanced to the ranks of Captain. Not long after that, he quit the Army. It has been rumored that he was order to shoot two officers who had been court martialed. One of the young men was his cousin, George Hatfield. He refused to kill one of his kin and left the army to avoid a court martial himself.
He return home to West Virginia and found that both Confederates and Union soldiers had raided many homesteads. In order to protect the area, he formed the Logan Wildcats, one of the most feared guerilla bands. It quickly became common knowledge not to go into the Tug Valley area unless you were either known or went with someone that was known.
Another story about Devil Anse cleverness involved a band of Union Soldiers. They were making their way through the area and Devil Anse found himself alone on a rocky mountain peak. With the agility of a wildcat, he jumped from one point to another, firing his rifle at the Union soldiers. The soldiers thought they had encountered a whole battalion of confederate soldiers and quickly retreated from the area. Devil Anse waited until nightfall and quietly slipped down the rocky mountain and made his way to safety.
Anse was known to all as a natural leader, a true mountain man, and an expert marksman. He was also known as a kind and gentle man. He was known for capturing young, wild animals and taming them. He was especially fond of bear cubs. Anderson was fiercely protective of his clan, which had grown in numbers over the years from his 13 children. Many attribute the beginning of the famous feud to family pride.
In 1911, Devil Anse found religion and was baptized in the Tug River. 10 years later, he succumbed to pneumonia and died on January 6th, 1921, his 60th wedding anniversary. It is recorded that his funeral was the largest ever in West Virginia, with over 5000 people attending. He was laid to rest in the Hatfield Cemetery, just off US 119, near the town of Omar, WV. His grave is marked with a life sized statute, gazing across the Hatfield land and with it's back to the Tug Valley and the McCoys.
In December 1995, his gravesite was dedicated as a National Monument.
Anse served as First Lieutenant of Company "B", 45th Bat. during the Civil war. He is known as the leader of the Hatfield Clan during the Hatfield and McCoy affair. Anse owned a large number of acres of timberland in Logan County, WV. He married Levisa "Levisy" Chafin, born December 20, 1842 in Ky., the daughter of Nathaniel "Nathan" and Matilda Varney Chafin. She died of myrocaditis, March 5, 1929. Anse died of pneumonia of Jan 7, 1921. Both are buried at Sarah Ann, WV in the Hatfield Cemetery.Hatfield and McCoy families, two American Appalachion mountaineer families who, with their kinfolk and neighbors, engaged in a legendary feud that attracted nationwide attention in the 1880s and '90s and prompted judicial and police actions, one of which drew an appeal up to the US Supreme Court (1888).
The Hatfields were headed by William Anderson ("Devil Anse") Hatfield (1839-1921) and the McCoys by Randolph ("Rand'l") McCoy (1839?-1921). Each fathered 13 children (some sources claim 16 for McCoy), and each family had numerous kinfolk and allies in the respective counties in which they lived. The origins of the feud are obscure. The families lived on opposite sides of a border stream, the Tug Fork - the McCoys in Pike Co., KY, and the Hatfields in Logan Co. (or Mingo Co., formed from a portion of Logan Co. in 1895), West Virginia.
In the American Civil War, the McCoys were Unionists and the Hatfields were Confederates. However, although animosities had built up and occasional fights had broken out, the first major bloodletting did not occur until 1882, when Ellison Hatfield, a son of Devil Anse, was mortally shot in a brawl with McCoys and, in revenge, the Hatfields kidnapped and executed three McCoy brothers - Tolbert, Phamer, and Randolph, Jr. These murders sharpened the backwoods warfare, and thereafter Hatfields and McCoys repeatedly ambushed and killed each other. Hatfields arrested in their home county and McCoys arrested in their home county were invariably released or acquitted of their deeds because of their respective local support and influence.
Fighting reached a climax in 1888. On New Year's Day a group of Hatfields led by Jim Vance (Devil Anse's brother [actually, "Bad Jim" was his uncle, not brother]) attacked the home of patriarch Rand'l McCoy, missing him but shooting dead a son and a daughter and burning his houses. In retaliation, a posse of McCoys and neighbors, headed by a Pike Co. deputy sheriff, made successive raids across the border into West Virginia, killing Jim Vance and at least three others, battling with a West Virginia posse, and eventually rounding up nine of the Hatfield clan for indictment and trial in Kentucky. West Virginia filed suit in federal court, charging kidnapping and lawlessness; Kentucky defended the abduction; and newspapers all over the country began carrying front-page stories of the fued and sending in reporters. Finally, in May 1888, a divided US Supreme Court ruled (in Plyant Mahon v. Abner Justice, jailer of Pike Co., KY) that Kentucky had the legal right to detain the accused for trial.
The trials, later in the year, resulted in convictions and in one sentence of death by hanging and eight sentences of imprisonment. Although there were flare-ups thereafter, notably in 1896-97, the feuding gradually abated and had ended by the second decade of the 20th century. The Hatfield-McCoy legend was embellished by a brief love affair about 1880 between Johnson ("Johnse") Hatfield and Rose Ann McCoy - an affair that was opposed and eventually broken up by the McCoys. Newspapers turned it into a Romeo-and-Juliet romance.
Folk figure. Born William Anderson Hatfield in what is today Logan County, West Virginia, he grew up in the hill country along the Tug Fork and developed a formidable reputation as a marksman and horseman. With his wife, Levicy, he produced nine boys and four girls. He owned considerable land and ran a successful lumbering operation. In 1863 West Virginia became a state and was admitted to the Union. A Confederate sympathizer, Hatfield formed the Logan Wildcats guerrilla band. Some historians believe the beginning of the famous Hatfield-McCoy feud found its beginning in 1865 When Asa McCoy, Ranel McCoy's brother, and Union Army veteran was found shot to death. Others point to an 1878 complaint filed by Ranel McCoy against Floyd Hatfield, Devil Anse's cousin, for stealing his hogs. Popular perception, however, favors the ill-starred romance between Anse's son, Johnse Hatfield and Roseanna McCoy. Devil Anse refused his permission for them to marry, the end result was a woman pregnant and abandoned by her lover and her family. Two years later, Anse's brother Ellison was killed by McCoys, Anse responded by killing his brother's murderers for which an indictment was issued but no further action taken. Tension between the two families remained high. On New Years Day 1888 Hatfield supporters burned the McCoy's homestead, killing two adult children, Alifair and Calvin, and seriously injuring Mrs McCoy. A reprisal raid netted nine Hatfield supporters but Devil Anse slipped away. The sides were drawn into a pitched battle two weeks later, during which a deputy was killed. In September 1889, the captured Hatfields were tried for the death of Alifair McCoy, eight went to prison, a ninth hanged. Anse spent the last years of his life quietly on his farm. He was once asked to go on the vaudeville stage, but it came to nothing in the end. He was baptized a born-again in 1911. Never wounded, despite his violent life, Anse succumbed to pneumonia ten years later. His funeral was, at that time, the largest ever held in Logan CountyThe Love of Rosanna McCoy
Come and listen to my story, of fair Rosanna McCoy.
She loved Johnse Hatfield, Old Devil Anse's boy.But the McCoys and Hatfields, had long engaged in strife.
And never the son of a Hatfield, should take a McCoy to wife.But when they met each other, on Blackberry Creek, they say,
she was riding behind her brother, when Johnse rode along that way."Who is that handsome fellow?", she asked young Tolbert McCoy,
said he, "Turn your head sister," "That's Devil Anse's boy."But somehow they met each other, and it grieved the Hatfields sore.
While, Randall, the young girl's father, turned his daughter from his door.It was down at old Aunt Betty's, they were courting one night they say.
When down came Rosanna's brothers, and took young Johnse away.And Rosanna's heart was heavy, for she hoped to be his wife,
and well she knew her brothers, would take his precious life.Straight to the Hatfield's stronghold, she rode, so fearless and brave,
to tell them that Johnse was in danger, and beg them his life to save.And the Hatfields rode in a body, and saved young Johnse's life.
But "Never," they said, "a Hatfield, should take a McCoy to wife."But the feud is long forgotten, and time has healed the sting,
as little Bud and Melissy, this song of their kinsmen sing.No longer is it forbidden, that a fair-haired young McCoy,
shall love her fair-haired neighbor, or marry a Hatfield boy.And the people still remember, though she never became his bride,
the love of those two young people, and Rosanna's midnight ride.by anonymous author
This was one of Logan Co's biggest funerals ever.There were over 400
people that attended.
Everyone knew her by Vicy,she was named after a few people in her family it appears.
611. Nancy Belle "Nannie" Hatfield
The Hatfields by Elliott Hatfield gives the second marriage date of 1935
to a man half her age.
186. Ellison Hatfield
Note: *Killed as direct result of feud: murdered, Warm Hollow, Matewan, Mingo County, West Virginia Killed in the fued. Ellison and Harriet were not married, Ellison Mounts was the illegitimate son of Ellison Hatfield. - CV G. Martin gedcom lists birth year as 1843, as does GMartin gedcom #2. Stabbed to death by Tolbert, Pharmer and Bud McCoy.
Killed in the feud. Ellison and Harriet were not married, Ellison Mounts was the illegitimate son of Ellison Hatfield. - CV G. Martin gedcom lists birth year as 1843, as does G Martin gedcom #2.
Stabbed to death by Tolbert, Pharmer and Bud McCoy.Stabbed 26 times and shot once
Murder victim. Brother of William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield. Stabbed 26 times and shot in the back by Pharmer, Bud (Randolph, Jr.) & Tolbert McCoy. For four long years, Ellison served in the Confederate Army. He rose to rank of first lieutenant. He was in the Battle of Gettysburg all the time of the July 1-4, 1863, struggle. When Lee surrendered at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, one of the young officers who surrendered his command was Lieutenant Hatfield. After his return from Appomattox, Ellison did not reach home until July, 1865. Then he and Sarah Ann Staton were married.Children born to Ellison and Sarah Ann Staton Hatfield were Elliott (October, 1866), Valentine (April, 1868), Polly, Imogene, Floyd, Nancy, Lydia, Wetzel, Andrew Kirk, and Easter.
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(Sarah Died In 1930'S) In Her Early 90'S.
623. Ellison Mounts
supposed illigit son of Ellison Hatfield
633. Andrew Kirk Hatfield
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187. Elias Prater "Good Lias" Hatfield
Elias "Good Lias" Hatfield b: ca 1847 - Logan Co., WV
src: Harry Sellards, Jr Events: 07 May 1863 [45th Battalion
Virginia Infantry Co. B, Enl.] Logan, WV 05 Oct 1863 [AWOL
45th Battalion Virginia Infantry Co. B per 4/1/64 roll] 01
May 1864 [Absent sick from 45th Battalion Virginia Infantry
Co. B per 12/31/64 roll] Locations: 1860 Logan Co. WV; 1880
[farmer] Logan Co. WV; 1887-1888 [tax list, 650 acres of
land] Magnolia District, Logan Co., WV;
+Betty Chafin
Source:
Harry Sellars, Jr.
637. Henry Drury "Harry" Hatfield
Henry Drury Hatfield [more] b: - Logan Co, WV
1913-1917 [14th governor] WV; 1929-1935 [US senator]
Washington, DC