Click to see full answer. In respect to this, how did Roseanna McCoy died in the movie? Despite her clear defiance of her own family, Johnse did not resume his relationship with the pregnant Roseanna , and chose instead to marry her cousin, Nancy McCoy. Having lost everything she held dear, it is said that Roseanna died of a broken heart. Roseanna told Devil Anse, who gathered his own crew to cut off the McCoys and rescue his son. After that, the couple remained apart. Roseanna would give birth to their daughter, Sarah Elizabeth McCoy , in the spring of The baby died of measles later that year.
He was convicted in Kentucky and served thirteen years of a life sentence. Roseannah died , just before her 30th birthday in Kentucky. The reason for her death is not known. It is said that she died of abroken heart, because of the death of her baby and because Johnse Hatfield left her while she was pregnant and married her cousin Nancy McCoy. When did McCoy die? March 28, When did Roseanna McCoy die? Roseannahdied , just before her 30th birthday in Kentucky.
Who won Hatfields or McCoy? Furthermore, given that Roseanna was a McCoy, Vicey and Anse would be severely restricted in their ability to help them in the event the marriage failed, if in fact they would be allowed to help them at all. Roseanna and her children would be completely at the mercy of the McCoy family, and thus become nothing but pawns in the sick game that her father was playing. For those reasons, to protect the young naive Roseanna from making a terrible mistake by marrying Johnse, Vicey put her foot down about a marriage between them very early in the relationship.
Everyone knew that Johnse would not defy his mother, since he did not love the girl anyway, and never had any intention of actually marrying her. It is true that the McCoy sons hated and repeatedly tried to kill Johnse.
However, they did that because common sense told them that he was having sex with their sister, and no other reason.
Even today in this region, having sex with a virginal girl can result in violence from the brothers, especially if the brothers believe their sister was coerced. In this case, they were right to believe that, though of course no one in the Hatfield family least of all Johnse was going to admit it.
That is the reason why Devil Anse allowed the McCoy boys go free repeatedly, without even so much as a beating, even though they had repeatedly tried to kill his son.
Anse understood his son, you see. He knew Johnse was doing Roseanna wrong, and that Johnse had sweet-talked Roseanna into having sex with him though he did not love her and had no intention of ever marrying her; and Anse was both ashamed and embarrassed by this behavior.
The truth is, Devil Anse would have reacted the same way as the McCoys, had it been his sister or daughter being treated like that, so he was not about to kill those boys for reacting in a way he considered understandable.
Instead he told Johnse that he was not to have anything else to do with Roseanna, because the McCoy brothers would kill him for it. Still, the reality is that Anse would not have killed the McCoy boys even if they had killed Johnse, because Johnse had provoked them into that reaction by sleeping with their sister. Anse only killed the McCoy boys when they slaughtered his brother Ellison in cold blood, without any provocation.
The McCoy boys were therefore not going to stop until Johnse was dead. Despite the betrayals and lies by Johnse, and despite the fact that he was only using her, Roseanna did indeed love Johnse, and the opposition of her family to the relationship — as well as the opportunity to marry into the loving and wealthy Hatfield family — only made her want him more.
Like naive young ladies everywhere, Roseanna equated sex with love and, thinking that her love would change his cheating ways, she fell deeply in love with Johnse despite being treated so badly by him. When her relationship with Johnse ended and just months later he married her cousin one of the girls he had been continuously seeing behind her back all along , she pined for him endlessly, not being able to accept that he had never loved her at all.
It is said that Roseanna never got over losing Johnse and their baby, and that she died of a broken heart shortly before her 30th birthday. No matter what actually caused her death, the love story between Johnse Hatfield and Roseanna McCoy is not a love story at all, except on her part, which only makes her death at such a young age even more tragic.
And neither, it seems, have the naive, deluded women who make it so easy for sleazy predators like Johnse. I belive he loved her, he was just torn between her and his family……so sad. I belive that she was ill…maybe Tuberculosis. What nerve… :. I am related to both sides, Hatfield and McCoy. Devil Anse is my 3rd cousin many times removed, and McCoy 1st cousin many times removed. LOL What I found most disappointing about the series was the fact that they made it seem that all the events happened one right after another and during a shorter time span than reality.
There were also some events that were left out maybe for the sake of timing, and I felt like the final episode was disappointing because it was rushed. Sorry, I have to ask. If you are both Hatfield and McCoy, do you feud with yourself? Just kidding, of course ;-D. There actually were a few battles like they were having their own Civil War, LOL, though I agree that it did not make much sense as presented in the movie.
There was one battle called Devils Backbone, where the Hatfields climbed the mountain and were shooting from a crag, and the McCoys were trying to blow up the crag they were standing on. What is this all about. Women have a lot of skill in munipulation which plays a factor always. I couldnt wait to watch this series mainly because of the historical nature I was very sad for Johnse and Rosanna especially when it showed him going to the grave of her and their daughter I believe.
I have a question regarding one incident in the miniseries and just wanted to know if anyone could answer. But Anse got his gun out and was messing with it, almost like he was about to shoot Johnse in the back, but he ended up not.
I know the times were different, but did Anse really want to kill Johnse? It just seems so messed up. I believe that was just completely made up to create drama for the show, to be honest. From what I know of the family back then, I cannot imagine Devil Anse would ever even think about killing Johnsie, no matter how mad he might get at him.
Me too i have been reading anything i can about this feud and this love story. I wish we knew more about it. It right down the center. He is just telling from the side of his family. Then again… Now that i think about it is seems slanted…. Just to be completely clear, I am telling it only from the Hatfield viewpoint, since I heard the stories from elderly Hatfields. I am not saying it is completely correct, mind you, because of course there are two sides to every story, and any oral family history does change with retelling over the many years.
So I, too, would love to see what the McCoys have to say, though I suspect they will agree with me on the Johnse and Roseanna situation since most McCoys I have known did agree that the typical tale is untrue, because Johnse just used Roseanna then threw her away.
As for the other parts of my oral family history regarding the feud, which I have written elsewhere on this blog also strictly from the Hatfield point of view , I suspect that the truth is, as usual, somewhere between the two sides. I therefore welcome input from McCoy descendants as to their oral family history, and perhaps we can figure some of it out once and for all. I actually know many McCoy descendants, by the way, and they are all fine people who I am proud to call my friends.
So the truth, though this may be disappointing to some, is that the Hatfields and McCoys get along great today. However, we do have a running joke about how we are supposed to feud, LOL. Well said…especially how your families, now, get along and joke about the past.
Just wish we could move past the slavery issue in the same way. Hate for folks to keep paying for a crime they are no longer a part of. One side comes from one point of view from people involved, one from the other side of people involved and then somewhere down the middle lies what actually happened. I find that true in most all circumstances in present day life. But when it comes to Historical Facts I think it most probably even more so. Thank you for this site Appalachian Lady.
Appalachian Lady, yours are the same stories I heard from my grandparents and great-grandparents growing up. I, too, only have the Hatfield side as we are related by marriage to them. Welcome, Lori! Glad to know you heard the same stories I heard, because that means they are probably true. Thank you so much for sharing. No shame these days. Do you know a book that depicts an accurate history I could read about your family to learn more?
There was a book published by Dr. Coleman Hatfield, and written by his father by the same name who was the son of Cap. I appreciate that you are sharing your family history as it was told to you, and would love to hear more stories. I find them interesting. Thanks for sharing!! I really enjoyed reading the story that you shared. The tv series has helped us Americans to remember and appriciate our past.
Also wanting to educate ourselves because I believe a lot of people have forgotten where we came from and that we should appriciate everything in the present. Thank you for sharing! I enjoyed feeling as though I was there with you listening to the elders share this information. I totally agree Greg. As I read it, yes it does paint Johnse in a far more realistic and unflattering light, yet I did catch the nuances in the writing that showed bias, i.
I never said I was unbiased. Of course I am biased, LOL — you do realize we are talking about a feud in which multiple relatives were murdered in cold blood, right?
If you were talking to a McCoy, they would be just as biased as me, if not more so since Devil Anse executed the McCoy boys. The truth is, we are all biased toward our own family. If we were not, there would never have been a feud in the first place, LOL.
I am just writing the story as it was told to me many years ago by the Hatfield family, as I have made very clear. Other Hatfields have commented that they were told the exact same story, and as far as I am aware, I do not even know them.
Either way, if you think it lacks credibility, then perhaps you should not be commenting here. I would hate to harm your credibility by some weird internet symbiosis, after all.
One must wonder how Devil Anse got his nickname nice he was so conscientious tic! I think you may not be completely objective. He says that he was shot by a hatfield, which eventually led to his leg being amputated. My father-in-laws grandfather Jessie Phillips watched through a window as his leg was being amputated. Because of the relative isolation of the area, with no inroads or railroads at the time, while Rosanna in the mini-series did go to live with an aunt, she did not have the option of maybe going to a more far away location than most girls did at that time, which would have allowed her some privacy and the ability to start life over somewhat.
Sadly for her, she remained in the middle of the storm. Thanks for shedding light on the real truth. Still would like to know why? Oh well, so much for the romantic loving Johnse in the movie, and hello to the reality of playboy Johnse. I still feel terrible for Roseanna and the suffering she had to endure with her broken heart and the loss of her baby. If her baby would have lived, it may have healed her broken heart.
The only thing that seems wonky here in the retelling is that by not marrying pregnant Rosanna to their son, is that she had already been disowned by her family, so she had no where to turn but to them for help.. They made his daughter a pariah all the way around. You are precisely right. The Hatfields turned their backs on Roseanna despite her pregnancy, which is not something my family would normally ever do.
It is actually very common in my family for children to be raised by their grandparents, and for the family to take in needy relatives of every imaginable description, including the unwed mothers of future grandchildren. See, we would normally consider a girl like Roseanna to be kin, not only because she lived with the Hatfields for a time, which meant that she was accepted as one of their children; but also because she was carrying a Hatfield baby.
No one disputed that Johnse was the father, since she was a good girl and not known to go with any other boys; so she and her infant should have been accepted into the family even without a marriage, and received the same help and protection as any other family member.
That she did not receive that help and protection is a continuing source of shame for the Hatfield family, regardless of what the McCoys did or did not do. That this cruelty was ever even admitted, rather than kept hidden or a story told which reflected better upon the family, is what makes me believe the story as it was told to me is true.
Your family indeed took in a bastard child and it was portrayed in the TV movie. Seems he could have done that with Roseanna too. The whole feud is just so sad. Two fine, honorable men whose families try to destroy eachother.
Often times it seemed to be more the families then Randall and Anse themselves. I enjoyed the mini series very much and hope that it was as factual as possible. I read that they had some McCoys on set to help with accuracy while filming….. You almost become obsessed with it. Thanks for sharing. At the end it said he moved to Oregon but ended up coming back and being arrested for the death of Alifair McCoy.
He was serving time and ended up keeping the warden from being stabbed to death so his sentence was cut short and he was released where he married another 4 times. From what I have read he did go to Oregon but upon his return was arrested and wound up in prison with a life sentence.
However, he apparently prevented the warden of the prison from being knifed by another prisoner and was released after 10 years. I too have been sucking up all the info i could find since the mini series. My quest has landed me here now. I have found that this feud lasted almost 30 years which was not what I had expected at all.
But where Appalachian Lady states that this here story is the first time it has been spoken outside the Hatfield family puzzles me. Somebody obviously has been talking because while the mini series took some liberties with the truth, there remains a lot of truth to the two of them.
He was sentenced to life in jail but served about 13 years and was released and lived another 11 years free before he died in Appalachian Lady can you help me out with this info please? While scouring the net for info, I came upon this. It is an actual article from The story we are interested in starts on page I invite all to read and then we can chat. Appalachian Lady let us know anything you can from this please. Very interesting! This claims Rosanna and Johnse had a son who was 8 years old!!
Please Hatfield or McCoy, tell us this is nonsense!!! Thank you Appalachian Lady for the blog. So, how do you figure that could be?!? For a man who was considered so smart and so well connected how could this get past him? Even if Johnse did hurt her, she was still young and should have been able to recover and move on as she matured, as most people do.
While he was in prison he prevented the warden from being hurt in an attack, and he was released from prison. He married 3 more times after his marriage to Nancy McCoy.
It seems like he could not be faithful to any woman, and left Nancy for another woman. But did he continue his career as a bootlegger in West Virginia then? Also, do you know if it was true that Anse wanted to kill Johnse when they went on that fishing trip and Johnse had told Nancy where Cap and Uncle Jim were. The Hatfields were involved in bootlegging pretty heavily, so I think Johnse probably returned to bootlegging. I honestly am not sure whether he was a good father, or whether he left his children with his parents.
I do not recall that ever being discussed. Cap avoided prison by escaping from the Mingo County WV jail, by chopping his way out with a hatchet smuggled into the jail. He just managed to not be captured, and eventually a general pardon for feud participants was issued. This is a tragic story and I know the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
So much can be learned from the history of the Hatfields and McCoys at so many levels. I have learned a lot and thank you for your blog regarding the true story of Roseanna and Johnse.
It is apparant that both families suffered greatly as a result of this feud, and so much learned by descendants from each family about redemption.
Sorry for the lateness of my response, as I just explained to someone else, I am pretty new to blogging and was accidentally responding to questions in reverse chronological order. You can probably find their birth and death dates on the master index at ghat.
Ellison Mounts was a Mounts rather than a Hatfield because he was born out of wedlock. Of course, he was accepted as a Hatfield, regardless of his last name. I am not sure where you can find death certificates for all of them, or even if they are online. However, if you have kin from Mingo County with those names, they are likely related in some way.
You might want to check on the Hatfield master index at ghat. If anyone is interested in seeing the graves who can not actually go to them, and a few of the pages have pictures of some of them.
Go to Findagrave. I thoroughly enjoyed your article; thank you for making the clarification. To be honest, I saw the truth as you tell it, and I believe every word you said in the miniseries. Johnse was never really committed to Roseanna, as proven by his marriage to Nancy….. Thank you again.
Poor Roseanna. Looking at her pic I think she was beautiful, but very sad. My family came from the backwoods of Tennessee so I fully understand how these families work. Thank you for writing this story. I was thinking last night, while watching the mini-series, I bet this aint the way it reallyhappened! I think they attempted to soften the blow of such a heart-breaking history. I feel so badly for the McCoy family. It seemed no justice was ever done for them.
I guess only God knows. Maybe not. If she was sheltered all her life, she may not have been able to recover. And remember,not only was she disowned from her family, she lost her baby and her cousin married the man she loved. I think it is very sad…. The fact that he was married 4 more times after Nancy pretty much speaks for itself.
And Roseanna knew this about him. She told Johnse that she knew he had many girlfriends and told them all that they were the most beautiful sight in West Virginia. Despite knowing this, she connected sex with love, like many other women do, and even if she was older that Johnse, he was her first, and seems only love.
And tootie, in the finale they said Johnse went to Oregon, returned to West Virginia and went to jail for life for the attack on the McCoy home. He recieved a pardon after he saved the Warden from being stabbed. I know the graves are old but do they still exist? Anse never wanted to kill Johnse, as he was not only very devoted to his children, everything he did was intended to protect them.
You seem to have forgotten that his father saved him from the very same McCoys who killed several Hatfields, and that is actually documented. That scene about his father wanting to kill him was just nonsense added to the movie for dramatic effect. Did he have children and what were they like? I am also curious as to what became of Nancy after she and Johnse broke up. As far as I am aware, Johnse did not go anywhere. He was married four times. Bear in mind, I am not sure if those were all legal marriages, or if he just said he was married to the last two He died in his 60s, I think, and is buried out in the Hatfield family cemetery.
As for what his kids were like, I could not really say. That was long before my time, and while their names came up over the years, not much was said about them. Nancy married and had kids with Johnse, obviously, and she did later marry Bad Frank and had four kids with him.
She died pretty young, before her 40th birthday I think, but I am not sure what happened to her. Her mother died when she was 4 years old and she went to live with Devil Anse and Levicy until she was 10 years old. She then lived with Dr Elliott Hatfield and his wife Margaret until when she married. She had a sister, Levicy, who may have been a year or so younger.
She and Johnse had two children, then they divorced. She married Bad Frank Phillips years later, and they had I think four children. She died before the age of 40, when some of her children were still very young. I am not sure what caused her death, sorry I cannot answer that part.
Found new infomation. The 4 children probably came up as he was the stepfather to the 1st 2 children she had with Johnse. I got the link. Dismiss the link. I found other websites that claimed that Bad Frank and Nancy had 9 kids, and the 4 that has been previously mentioned.
So as it showed in the minseries, he did not die right away because he remarried again and had more children. All my info says, is he died July 12th in Pike County. I was very happy to find that Cap became a lawyer? I think that is what happened. Like alot of people I have spent the last few nights looking up the Hatfield-McCoy fued on the intrnet, wanting to get to really know these families. The emotional, spiritual, and physical pain and suffering by both families had to have been so intense!!!
I feel so sad for Roseanne and the shame that the Hatfield decendants still carry for not giving her aide. Thank you for your words StoryLady.
The story you tell is very much as it was depicted in the movie. It appears they did alot of research and must have had many consultants, like yourself, to weave the story, of course with some creative license. Not sure how many years he was in prison, but he died the year after his father, , at age By the way, he did not look like the actor in movie…………Sorry ladies. Sidenote-Prior to this movie, I had done some family research. Battalion was formed in that Appalachian region in support of the southern war effort.
Many soldiers did like Anse did, deserted the army to go home, mostly because in the border states like WV though officially a union state and KY and Missouri , neighboring people might have supported different sides in the war, and hostilities abounded including many opportunists surfacing, like the lawyer and bad Frank in the movie. Many soldiers, upon finding out about the unrest at home, would choose to abandon the war effort and return to their families. That is absolutely fascinating information about Civil War deserters — thanks for your comment!
Yes, Johnse went to prison for about 13 years before he was pardoned. I seem to recall that it was the Lt. Governor that he saved? That comment made me laugh about Johnse not looking like the actor in the movie…sorry ladies! That guy was a cutie! I watched the mini series on the History Channel.
It was disturbing to me how lives were taking because of 2 men having there differences with each other Randell and Anderson I was bothered by how the families wanted to continue the feud the Hatfield side and the McCoy. I am so glad the the later generation of both families have matured and came together to stop all the rumors of the families still feuding. It was nice to read your story and it not being one sided. Yes, the Hatfields and McCoys get along great now, and have for a long time.
I actually have many friends who are McCoys, and we tease each other about how we are supposed to be feuding rather than getting along, LOL. I would suggest that you check the various genealogy websites, because you can trace his family line very easily that way.
I think that over the years, things happened that just grew out of control and both Randall and Anse seemed to have a huge amount of family honor. It all seemed to have to do with honor. The things they fought about then may seem trivial to us now but back then, anywhere, those things were hugely important. Just an obversation from a Coloradoan! You and I and all the other people who have commented here must have watched two different miniseries, I only wrote this because the miniseries painted it as a love story, when it is really a cautionary tale.
I always enjoy reading about infamous incidents in history. Supposedly, he came back to the Tug River area about ten years after the hanging of Ellison Mounts. He was pardoned after 13 years because he saved the warden from a knife attack. He died in , and is buried in the Hatfield family cemetery — there is a monument there. The information about his arrest and conviction came from newspaper transcriptions from a West Virginia newspaper and the New York Times of the period.
Johnse did go to to prison about ten years after Cotton was hanged, and he was released early but it was the Lieutenant Governor he saved, not the warden. However, I am unsure where he was in the interim. As far as what I have been told, he may have been in that area all along because I do not recall ever being told that he left though obviously, that does not mean he did not leave.
He knew the woods like the back of his hand, as did all the boys, and was very used to that kind of living — and the Hatfields would have made sure he had whatever he needed — so it would have been extremely easy for him to hide there for a very long period of time, to avoid being arrested. Heck, there are probably people living in the woods here even now, who no one knows are there, LOL.
Based on all the research I have done, I to believe he stayed in the area and hid out for 10 yrs with help from his family as Appalachian Lady stated.
Yes it was in fact the Lt Governor whose life he saved after being attacked. Keep up the great work Appalachian Lady, it is greatly appreciated. Now lets get some more McCoys point of views in here. I see one or two have checked in and that is Great!
God Bless, have a great day on this Beautiful Sunday.. I wonder if he did love her, but was just a dog. I have a hard time believing that a tragic love story would have endured all these years if it was completely one sided. In the midst of all this hullaballoo over the pregnant Roseanna he marries Nancy just a few months later. Did he really love Nancy and thought he could tame her? I was told that he found Nancy very exciting, but was too young to realize that you cannot tame a whore or as they say these days, turn a whore into a housewife.
If he found Nancy exciting, maybe she really did seduce him. Maybe he did love Roseanna but let his hormones away him. As far as I was told, she was a rather loose woman by the standards of the day, but I do not recall ever hearing that she was an actual prostitute.
As I watched the miniseries, my heart broke for Rosanna. I also believe that she probably committed suicide. She lost her baby and much of her immediate family and was betrayed by her lover and her cousin. She probably felt she had nothing else to live for. What a sad and tragic life. I am honestly not exactly sure how he died, since he was involved only with the McCoy side, but I seem to recall being told that he was shot for running his mouth. The person who killed him was a stranger with no apparent connection to the Hatfield family.
Do you mean if the children of his children are still living? If so, they are all deceased a very long time ago. There are lots of direct descendants still living, though. Most today are great-great-great grandchildren, or further down the line. Thanks for telling your story.. I look forward to reading more of this history.. I agree with you Appalachian Lady, they painted a love story! Thanks for telling us a little bit of your family history.
Now I see you say that Rosanna was a good girl, but I have read that she was pretty, but did get around.. She was a good girl in the eyes of the Hatfields. Remember, I am telling this as I was told it many years ago by my grandmothers. I guess I should explain that my family does not look down on girls for sleeping with boys, as long as there is a romance involved. We consider it normal human nature if a girl has feelings for a boy, no matter what she has been taught at home.
For that reason, the girls in our family are very sheltered, not for religious reasons since we are not a religious family, but simply to save them from their own hormones and I am no exception, as I was not even allowed to date until I was in college.
You can get gonorrhea if there is a romantic relationship too, and it only takes one encounter, so even that does not mean she was not a good girl. As long as she was not known to have sex with men when there was no romantic relationship at all, and as long as she did not go around flaunting her body or acting provocatively, my family would still view her as a good girl.
Perhaps there were things about her they did not know, but if she were a whore, they would have known that since it is such a small area. Furthermore, they would never have allowed a whore to stay with them.
We may not be religious, but we are also not about to bring whores into the house to corrupt our own daughters. Either way, as long as she was not a flat-out whore, they would not blame her for her behavior. They would instead blame her parents, for allowing her to ever be in the position where her hormones could take over. Well, who is to say what is in the heart of anyone especially a man :? So, to me it is a sad and tragic LOVE story. Thanks for the insight into this sad and terrible time for these families in our Appalachian Mountains.
I agree with you. I think he cared for her maybe not our version of love. I believe it was a tragic love story because Roseanna did love him and she was rejected by him. That is how I feel. But still, I was once married to a sweet, charming scoundrel. He loved me. Johnse did go to Oregon and came back to receive a life sentence for the killing of the McCoy children.
However, he saved a prison official perhaps the wardon from being killed by another inmate and was paroled. He died in at age As a man I have no compunction in telling the truth about men.
We have what I call dog logic if we cant eat it bury it or sleep with it, pee on it. This was amazingly well put together.. Appalachin lady- thank you for providing this information. Very interesting to know the past. Do you think his true story was correct in the mini series?
I feel so bad for him, poor boy. He lost his daddy and then hung for murder. I know he was hung in real life for the murder of Alfair McCoy. Do you know more details about him? Cotton was not mentally retarded and childlike as it was shown in the miniseries, so they took a lot of dramatic license with him. He was dimwitted, which means he was not smart, but he was not mentally retarded. However, he was mentally ill. Others opposed it, saying they thought he was just faking in an attempt to delay his execution.
Also, you should know that Devil Anse did not use Cotton as a sacrificial lamb, despite what was shown in the miniseries. Quite the contrary, in fact, because Anse believed Cotton had murdered that McCoy child in cold blood.
Just as he had executed the McCoy boys for the coldblooded murder of Ellison, Anse strongly believed in blood for blood, and that murderers had to pay with their own life. That is the real reason why Cotton was executed without intervention from the Hatfields. I had a hard time understanding WHY they would hang a mentally handicapped person, it really bothered me. You did shed a litlle light on this matter, by say he was not retarded.
Still it is bothersome and a shame it had to happen. 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. Primary Menu Skip to content. Hatfield Family of West Virginia, Confederate Home Guards.
Randolph McCoy. Roseanna McCoy. Devil Anse Hatfield. Special Officer Frank Phillips. Hatfield-McCoy Map.
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