Abbeville Progress, Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La) May 2, 1914,
NOTED FEUDIST DEAD
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RANDALL McCOY After Turbulent Career, Dies in Bed
Desperate Deeds of the Hatfield-McCoy Factions Enacted in the State of Kentucky – Early Incidents of the War
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Louisville, Ky – Randall McCoy nonagenarian and one of the leaders of the famous Hatfield-McCoy feud, which for years terrorized the border districts of the states of Kentucky and West Virginia, died at the home of his grandson in this city recently. Death was caused by burns which he suffered last fall and from which he never recovered.
The life history of McCoy is the history of a period when the reign of law was forgotten for many years. The original trouble between the McCoy and Hatfield families began during the Civil War, when Harmon McCoy brother of Randall McCoy was killed by “Jim” Vance, a relative of Anderson Hatfield, known far and wide as “Bad Anse,” whose mother was a member of the Vance family.
Hatfield had several sons, the most notorious being “Cap” and Johnson Hatfield. So notorious was the reputation of this family that they were the practical rulers of Logan County, Kentucky respecting neither man nor the law.
In 1881 Johnson Hatfield eloped with Randall McCoy”s daughter. After the girl had returned to her parents Johnson Hatfield again induced her to go with him. They were surprised by members of the McCoy family who took Hatfield prisoner. “Bad Anse” Hatfield and other members of his family immediately organized an expedition and rescued Johnson Hatfield.
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Things were fairly quiet then for two years until on election day in August, 1883, Ellison Hatfield attempted to murder three of Randall McCoy”s sons ” Floyd, Talbert and Richard ” the eldest being twenty-four years old and the youngest nineteen.
In the fight, Ellison Hatfield was mortally wounded and the McCoy boys escaped harm. Floyd McCoy escaped while the other two boys were arrested by the authorities. A crowd of “Bad Anse” Hatfield”s desperadoes captured Talbert and Richard McCoy along with Randall McCoy Jr., fourteen years old and held them pending the outcome of the injuries to Ellison Hatfield. Immediately after the death of Hatfield, the Hatfield clan tied the three McCoy boys to trees and shot them to death.
Following the insistent demands of law-abiding citizens, Governor Buckner of Kentucky commissioned Frank Phillips to go to West Virginia to take charge of the Hatfield clan who had been accused of the McCoy murders. Phillips took his work seriously and to the surprise of the Hatfields landed his prisoners in the mail at Pikeville.
A few days later on the night of January 1, 1887, others of the Hatfield clan attacked the house of Randall McCoy and killed a son and a daughter besides fatally wounding his wife. McCoy made a desperate fight and killed three of the attacking party before he fled for his life. One of his daughters went mad as the result of the sight of her dead brother and sister.
When Kentucky heard the story of this attack there was such an outcry that the fearless Phillips again organized a posse and invaded West Virginia, the stronghold of the Hatfield clan. He captured the other members of the band and lodged them in Pikeville jail. They were all indicted for murder. (transcribed by Peggy Thompson)
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