The Feud: Hatfields & McCoys - (Episode 11)
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- In this season finale we go back to Mingo County where our season began to take a look at one of the most famous incidences in not just West Virginia history but Apppalachian history - The Hatfield and McCoy Feud. A bitter clan rivalry that left several people dead across two states and forever changed the way that Appalachians would be viewed.
I'm proud to be born and raised in Kentucky. I not only learned about this feud in school but also in my grandmothers house. She had original papers from that time and a lot more stuff. She was so proud to be a McCoy.
ew, i’m a hatfield.
@@realtalk5182I'm BOTH.
Inbreeders....
I was only blessed enough to be raised in Kentucky. I was born in Indiana and moved to Kentucky when I was 6 where all my moms family were from. Kentucky has always and will always be my home. Such a beautiful and underrated state
I had a MeCoy family member help me change a starter in one my cars. Very nice family. His dad died wrecking his bike. Funny thing is my hometown is the home of Doc Holiday and I'm kin to President Polk. No Joke
I think your joking
@@gabeg.891I think you don't Think!
@@jeanettecoleman-mz7ie I thought long and hard about it. And I think you have no sense of humor
Hey you don't fuk with us Hillbillies😂 I think these Democrats are starting to find that out
My dad always told me the meaner you are the longer you live and I'm a hillbilly born and raised in Eastern Kentucky
I delivered to a health center when I was with FedEx and the lady that signed married in to the McCoy family that also had Hatfields in their bloodline.
My great uncle lived in Eastern KY and he lived to be 104. God rest hid soul 🙏
Thanks. I was always curious about that feud.
There was a weekly show in the 50s and early 60s, called You Bet Your Life, hosted by Goucho Marx.
One episode There was a contestant who was a decedent of the
McCoys. He said that over a 100 people died during the feud and that a lot of them were hanged.
Look it up, you might find it interesting.
It was common for the number of casualties to be greatly exaggerated in the media for the purpose of selling the story. In fact, America has had far, far more bloody family fueds than this one. But, this one is perhaps its most infamous.
I'm sure you're right on family feuds of the past being many.
I lived outside of Beckley WV for a couple years...late 70s
When I was a little boy, we used to play a game where we would feud. Like the Hatfields and McCoy's a great American rivalry part of our heritage.
I just found my biological fathers family last year. Sadly he and my two siblings have passed so I cannot ask them My aunt told me that we are related to the Hatfields in some way. I teach high school history and actually had a debate with my students who were saying the Hatfields are no better than the street gangs. An eye for an eye. Smart kids. Now three years later I find out I am related. My dads family lives in upstate Wisconsing, Michigan area. I see online some Hatfields did live there in MIN. But I lost the link and now cannot find it. The rabbit hole was very deep that day. Can you point me in the right direction? Thank you
A great source of information on Hatfield & McCoys as as just southern WV history in general is the Katherine McCoy of the WV Mine Wars museum. She knows a lot about the linage of both families.
I am actually related to the hatfield that married to a mccoy. My grandmother was from West Virginia and was direct descendant of the hatfields. She never talked about this I found out later by a guy that was doing a family tree.
My Grandma was Sarah Wolford McCoys Daughter
I've got relatives all over West Virginia. The old folks when I was small (late 60s early 70s) spoke of "Devil Dave" Lester and Archibald Bailey Lester from this same time period. The latter served in The Civil War Virginia 22nd Infantry. They said Devil Dave was mean as a water moccasin. They both apparently were friends with Devil Anse and many of the Hatfields.
I have a Scots Irish back ground and a relation to Asa McCoy and have never been to Appalachia in my life. May be on my bucket list.
Come visit for sure. There is a lot of beauty here and a lot of great people.
Wow, the real "preacher hatfield" looks so similar to Powers Boothe.
If you haven't visited WV please take a vacation to the mountain state. It is almost heaven.
Id like to go I live in alabama
The smokies are beautiful, but the Rockies are king and Colorado is the true mountain state
A great,entertaining and informative video..thanks
Thank you for watching!
This is wildly entertaining and also, sheds a whole new light on the mini-series with Kevin Costner.
I thought Bill Staton was the 1 Mccoy that worked for devilance and was the one who sided with the Hatfields during hog trial.
Yep
He was the “witness”.. SilKirk was a McCoy but also logged for Devil Anse
So it seems the mini series was pretty close to what happened in real life. Thanks for the story.It was very interesting.
Didn't the families meet together about 20 years ago to officially end the feud? I thought I remembered something about the two families meeting.
Signed a "Peace Treaty" and everything.
Me and my family were always amused at how Charleston in particular stupid politicians have done everything in their power to separate themselves from the confederate veterans when in fact the entire southern region of West Virginia fought predominantly for the south including a very long list of my direct ancestors. I have one union soldier ancestor, my family in West Virginia and Virginia dates back to the 1600’s and I love my home state and always will I just wish they’d stop with the woke stupidity of trying to tear down confederate monuments like native West Virginian stonewall Jackson in particular and trying their damn hardest to change history. It is what it is just tell the damn truth. They need to be more worried about the drug pandemic then trying to change history.
Confederates were traitors to the United States. Tearing down a statue does not change history and I think there is a place those statues belong and information that can be learned from them. I do believe they should have never been erected in Government buildings/property. Just seems odd to put a statue of someone who fought against the United States in/on property owned by the United States.
@@RecordWestVirginiait was what the community wanted.
The government, at the end of the day is not its own entity. It’s made of up of people from the community. The communities that fought for the south naturally wanted to honor their dead and their leaders.
The problem is people that people lost sight of the fact that the government is not some separate independent entity, I quote “by the people, for the people”.
Furthermore it is actually questionable whether Lincoln’s war was legal.
So, I have to disagree with you about the statutes, the sanitization of history, and that the confederates were traitors, as your assertion is not supported by historical facts.
The only act of aggression on the part of the Confederacy was the attack on Ft. Sumpter, after the Federal commander refused to vacate what the State considered it’s sovereign territory.
Even before this though, Lincoln had called for volunteers to invade the South.
More people should read more history more thoroughly. 😉
I love History. I feel like I would side with the McCoy's.
The New Year's Even Massacre makes it hard to side with the Hatfields for sure.
I thought that they lived across the big sandy. Ya learn something new everyday, great first episode. Thank you!
My understanding of the feud's causes is that Selkirk McCoy was not the individual who testified in the trial held to determine the ownership of the pig. Bill Staton, a relative of the McCoy's who married into the Hatfield family, was the individual that testified the hog in question belonged to Floyd Hatfield. Staton was employed by Devil Anse. Randall McCoy's sons later killed Bill Staton, though they were set free as they claimed self defense, and no witness could dispute their statement.
Selkirk McCoy also worked for Devil Anse. Selkirk sided with Devil Anse in the feud, was charged with various crimes relating to the assaults on the McCoy family, was correspondingly arrested, but let go due to lack of evidence.
If I am mistaken, please let me know. Thanks!
I think you are correct in that it was Staton who testified. But, according to Mr. Richardson, Selkirk was on the jury and he casts his vote against Randall in favor of Floyd.
@@RecordWestVirginia Okay thanks! My bad if I misinterpreted the quote. There are so many interesting facts about the feud that I love watching videos on it.
@@josephorzolek2623 No worries. Thanks for watching! The Feud has some fascinating stories within it.
Bill Staton testified for floyd.he was killed by randles nephews
I wish this channel posted more
Good stuff ... Kindest Regards to all ... Merry Christmas. .
I found this small and super interesting documentary. Very informative and really well told. Personally, I find it very sad and humiliating what stories are still spread today about the people of Appalachia. From inbreeding to ignorance. I personally think that this family tragedy is very significant at a time when it was all about pure survival. The Civil War certainly changed people, and the South in particular suffered greatly under the circumstances that prevailed after the war. All in all, adverse living conditions in which it could very easily come to such disputes. I personally find the story of these two families extremely interesting. Even if it was connected with a lot of suffering over decades.
Thanks so much for watching!! Glad you enjoyed it!
@@RecordWestVirginia I have, very much so. Thanks to you and best wishes to West Virginia. Stay safe
Sadly there was inbreeding. Ol’ Randall was married to his first cousin.
@@RecordWestVirginia Hey There Thanks im a Hatfield from North Yorkshire UK the Hatfields of West Virginia and Kentucky came from this branch of Hatfields from the feet of finnes North Riding of Yorkshire👍 Godbless
@@twinsboy_3410 the name Johnson is a Hatfield and a Mc Coy name
This story goes back further than that ...A strong percentage of Appalachia were from one violent region on the Brittish Scotish border where there was little law enforcement. So they often took the law into their own hands. And there were the Scotch Irish as well ... who were widely know for not being civil minded ...this violent heritage immigrated and became rooted in the new world ...this Libertarian culture still survives today.
My maternal grandmother was descended from Devil Anse
Great Channel! Thanks for doing what you do!
I would rather have a “hillbilly” for a friend/neighbor than any others.
I have West Virginia and Kentucky Blood.
The Appalachian People are my people.
Very interesting life of The Hatfields and McCoys.
Whatever happened to the Hatfield/McCoy baby?
She died 8-9 months after birth
Died from measles
Thank you so much 🙏💖✨⚡️
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
I watched the TV mini series with Kevin Costner which was really interesting. Unfortunately, in typical Hollywood fashion they changed some of the story to make it more "exciting".
Not as much as you think.
Also filmed in Europe.my family is from that area in West Virginia
I am so interested in American History. I would love to see these places, but as a black American I wouldn’t feel safe traveling to these places.
Come! You will be surprised by 1. The fact that Mingo County has more diversity than what you think of from the coal fields of WV due to the fact that so many of the men who worked in the early days of the coal industry were recently freed slaves and new scot, Irish and Italian immigrants. Many of theid decedents still remain here. And two, while racism certainly exists here as it does everywhere in America, it is not nearly as pervasive as what stereotypes about the area may make you believe. Come visit, we'd love to have you!
Great finale to a great season!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
I’m a Descendent from the McCoy family . I’ve only met one Hatfield , he ain’t know he was being watched
Nor do you my friend. Nor do you
I never knew that this feud led to all of the “hillbilly” stereotypes. I love when I learn something that allows me to understand the world more! This channel has given me that type of information multiple times so far. Very excited for next season!
We're excited for season 2 as well.. Thanks so much for watching with us this season!
In all fairness this feud isn't responsible for ALL of the serotypes. I am not saying that to be mean. My dad was from WV and my moms family came from Kentucky. I am related to both Hatfield's and McCoy's and I have been all over the states. A lot of that stuff comes from a very real place. Anyone that is used to a city existence and visits WV is going to feel like they landed on a different planet.
Anse Hatfield was far from a dumb hillbilly he ran a very successful timber buisness and was a large landowner, and from all accounts McCoy was a timber man as well just wasnt as successful, I lived in west Va for 3 yrs growing up and the people there are solid Gold for the most largest part salt of the earth once u get to know them as it took me a couple yrs to gain there trust n to fight in and my family lived there at the time, thats the way it had to be back then to earn trust n respect from helping one another, what I wouldnt give to go back in time of my carefree teenage yrs living there it was the happiest n best yrs of my life, i wished i had married a west virginia lady to when i had the chances, as the food I ate when living there was the best as anywhere i ever ate and i ate plently of places all over the country as I worked as a over the road trucker nothing compared to the food I ate when living in west virginia, I can say making the honor roll in school as something about every family member of mine easily did every yr and most all the school was very intelligent even if they talk funny to you, they darn sure are smart n most of them are from pioneering familys , familys that had grandfathers n their sons or one of the other who fought in the American revolutionary war , they are Patriots and west virginia has more veterans per capita than about any other state, even if they talk funny to some folks they are genuine n the salt of the earth.
It has been a great year guys.
We think so! Thanks so much for watching
Asa Harmon MCcoy was my great great great grandfather
Wow! That's so cool. Do you still live in the area?
I'm here from watching Pawn Stars, a man brought in a rifle that was meant to be Hatfields.
Oh cool.. Did the Pawn Stars make an offer on it?
@@RecordWestVirginia It was Capn Hatfields 1989 Winchester, ua-cam.com/video/AY8nTE8iZ7A/v-deo.html
Thank you for framing this tragic story in its right lens. Are there any living relatives of both famies living today? And do they get along?
The Hatfield and McCoy families jointly hold an annual 'family' reunion in Williamson, WV. Seems they get along just fine.
That area is my hometown. There are a lot of relatives from both sides still in the area and they do get along.
Why the hell wouldn’t they get along 😂😂. These events happened over 100 years ago.
@@MrGrifter123 it would’ve been kinda cool if they were still at it to this day 🤷 lol
I am a McCoy and a Hatfield.
This is some real family drama.
Worst crime & most cowardly thing a Company Commander could ever do is abandon & desert his troops on the field of battle ! Many Commanders on both sides suffered tragedy on the homefront but never betrayed their men.
I disagree. Knowing when it is time to leave is a survivors trait. Leaving because of fear is different though.
I volunteer myself I can also Unvolunteer myself.
Desertion was a big problem in the war but especially the CSA. The CSA was a total disaster.
I mean, technically, the real men benefiting from the war stayed safe. Retreating isn't so bad
I have this blood in me. A fellow I worked with years ago loaned me a book he had and I read it and about halfway through there was a picture of my great grandmother. It was spooky because I remember seeing her picture in the family album. I must have that blood because years ago I got the urge to distill my own liquor. I got pretty good at it, but I will tell you that it is a lot of work. Anybody that tells you that there is nothing to it doesn’t know what they are talking about.
Where is my grandkids monies from these stories
It would be nice if some of the profit those companies like the Hatfield and McCoy Dinner Show in TN make went to the families for sure.
Is it true both family’s signed a treaty around 2000?
It is true. www.cbsnews.com/news/official-end-of-legendary-feud/
2003 to be exact
Yes many members of both families singed a peace treaty its held well so far 😊
Good show I personally disagree with you I think it was The McCoys that primarily started this whole thing. That's just my opinion. Have a good day.
the hatfields started it!!
I agree with u Randall started it
Here we go again!
I love the video thanks.
I would have loved to have been born back in the Hatfield and McCoys days,i would have been a Hatfield ❤❤❤
I'm both❤
Dawdy not to mention kentucky fried chicken
G reat presentation!
I didnt know that CNN and MSNBC existed back then. When they talked about how some newspapers lied and exaggerated I thought that that must be CNN and MSNBC
This was at the height of the Yellow Journalism days and the newspaper war between William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. So sensationalism was rampant as those two tried to take control of the industry
Related to Hatfield’s
jim vance was not devil ants hatfield uncle how ever was his mother's cousin now when families had older cousins they call them at and uncle but you research devil ants hatfield's motherhis mother you will find that she only had 2 sisters but no brother
I think it was Randall's hog.....
I agree. I think that's why Floyd ate the evidence
Infamous and ridiculous. Over a darn pig? No, had to be long felt resentment.
Hillbillys rock!
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Frank Phelps or bad Frank Phillips as people like to call him what is a kidnapper he kidnap hatfields that had nothing to do with the feud add family friends of the hatfields that he also kidnapped several of McCoy's that had nothing to do with the feud so a lot of innocent people were arrested for stuff they had nothing to do with because a lot of the hatfields they stay neutral they stayed out of the field also their family friends stayed out of the feud a lot of The McCoys stayed out of the field and a lot of their friends stayed out of the fuse and all that stayed out of a few were also arrested for stuff they did not do so Frank Phillips arrested over a dozen people and half of them had nothing to do with the fuse Perry Cline was the one that gathered donations to higher
Family fued Steve
I cannot understand why a pregnant woman would name her baby "Devil".
His real name was William Anderson Hatfield.. But he went by Anderson and was called Anse for short. The exact origin of the nickname "Devil Anse" is not known as there are several likely stories however, the most widely accepted is that it was given to him during his time fighting for the confederacy in the Civil War.
That's my family they are creating a copy 😺🐈
From the movie I get that jim Vance was a really bad dude, I didn't like him killing so many people,
Someone said its just history right so say someone kill your son would you want to see a monument of that 😮
Well now you understand why we Polynesians hate being stereotyped as an ignorant race who got lucky when we discovered every Island in the Pacific 1000+ years before Europeans.
As an Appalachian, I can 100% relate to unfair and ridiculous stereotypes. Btw, I think Polynesians have such an interesting history.
hey
Hey Clarence
Hi
Well, they did marry their cousins. ..lol
Randall started this he was jealous of devil anse cause he was sussesfuo in the timber business and he was broke that among other things jealousy started it by Randall devil was just a hard head that wasnt gonna back down
Well now... at the heart of every stereotype is an ugly lil' nugget of truth. I've lived in Appalachia all my life and when I had to make sales calls into the heart of the hills, (I'm talking 'bout places like Stewart Simmons NC, Grundy/Hurley WV, The I-81 corridor through VA, etc... let me just tell you... I've seen some GENIUINE Hillbillies. Cousin-wives and all. So while there are some intelligent, resourceful, and hard workin' folks all throughout these hills, there are also some backwards, barefoot, bucktooth, bumblefucked people who make Deliverance look like a cosmopolitan art exhibit in the Soho district of Manhattan. Hell, there are parts of southern WV I won't drive through... especially now that meth labs and oxycodone stash houses are as common as churches.
Grundy and Hurley are in Virginia. Not West Virginia. But, your point is taken
@@RecordWestVirginia That's right! You are correct! I am from the Pittsburgh area and all I know is I drove through about 4 and a half hours of WV to get there, got lost on some backwoods windy-ass coal-mining roads, went over a few mountains, and found myself in Deliverance. I ended up in VA, but I got lost and ventured into both WV and KY before I found where I was supposed to be. I Passed some gigantic industrial furnace thing in a valley as well, it was a mile long with at least 20 gleaming smoke stacks glowing red, it looked like freaking Mordor. Maybe a coke plant or some ore smelting plant? Who knows.
Essentially, I knew I was in a foreign land when I passed "Hurley High School" and the football field was a damn rectangle cut out of a sheer rock face and the front doors were a giant Confederate Flag. It was like entering another world. Pittsburgh isn't even that liberal compared to most other medium to large East Coast cities, and yet, the good folks of Hurley/Grundy and Knox Creek made us look like AOC and a bunch of Socialist Marxists. Culture shock to the extreme.
Maybe I can edit my post to stay in WV, I can say for sure that the Beckley suburbs and the Whiteville WV area are quite a trip too.
If you head South on US 52 on the WV side or 23 on the KY side it's like traveling back in time 5 years every 45 minutes you go until you hit NC then you slow start coming back to the present day lol
That stuff you mention is everywhere , I dare you to walk up to a real mountain man n tell him how you really feel lol
@@RecordWestVirginia pretty much was a time machine when I lived there off of 52 near dunlow wva in the early 80's as a youth for 3 yrs, drugs has it it hard, but now most of the dirt roads which was most of them then dirt n gravel has been blacktopped I took a trip back there fall before last, most all my kin has died or moved out when they grew up looking for work, but I did still find some mighty fine people i never met before who treated me better than my friends back home, i guess in a way in wva im always back home in my heart
I dont appreciate that you say being illetrate in thst day (90 percent of people were all over the country) or being pregnant or barefoot or as impled poor are negative! Those arent negative things. Being hardworking settling where you had to make what you had as tgere were no stores to buy shoes and reproducing and thriving! Those are positive things! Things that settled and made this country! Brave strong people.
We never said those things, those were the things the New York papers wrote about the people here when covering the feud. Stereotypes that still persist today. Stereotypes there were also untrue then and untrue now. Nearly all of the the people involved in the feud had shoes as did most people in the area at the time and Devil Anse was highly literate, also you're way off when you say 90% of the people in the country were illiterate in the time of the feud. The literacy rate in the 1870s was about 80% and that was also about what the literacy rate in southern WV was at the time as well. Meaning only around 20% of the population was illiterate then. We were not behind, despite the way the New York how the New York papers covering the event tried to portray us.
fart
Cant listen to anymore of this hogwash 😮
From McCoy Family.. is Charlie Mansion.. his mother..
No...his father's line. The Scott's is where the McCoy line comes in.
Luv light n respect from bloody Harlan Kentucky 🙃🤗😍🌹🍷
When I moved to Tenn. a couple said to me when I told them NY. see we still have our teeth and i'm not married to my sister. It took me a min. and I said not from the dam city where i'm from 60 miles North of . well then i can do what Hank Jr sang about and I hated NYC. so don't confuse me with city folk I'm country my dad and everyone in my family were farmers and cattle men and I can ride a horse any way you can think of lol .. point blank I hated the city and always will reached in my wallet and showed them the farm. I said do all you people think we all city trash. lol stero types funny and we all had a great time. sorry I left but sick family in NY.
The South shall rise AGAIN.
This is how Afghanistan is
Do the whites of WV please or Timothy Treadwell and his lady.... Xoxoxoxo
The white family had some mighty fine looking ladys at least the ones i met, had a crush on one in 9th grade n she had a crush on me too, but i moved away, later found out she became popular about 11th grade n more beautiful as she blossomed and Became the Home Coming Queen of our Class she so deserved it she was as sweet as can be and so very humble