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Shortly after the capture and killing of Jim Vance in January 1888, the Hatfield family, led by Devil Anse Hatfield, prepared for one last major offensive attack in revenge against the McCoy family.
8 lut 2024 · Feudist James "Jim" Vance, born about 1832, was the grandson of Tug Valley pioneer Abner Vance and the uncle of William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield.Jim Vance was a leading protagonist in the Hatfield-McCoy Feud.Described by historian Otis K. Rice as a ruthless, vindictive man, he helped to keep the conflict going and took part in some of its bloodiest episodes.
Cap Hatfield surrendered to the hunters, but Uncle Jim Vance attempted to flee, exchanging shots with the men pursuing him. He was killed in the ensuing gunfight, though there are some who believe he was executed after the party, which included some McCoy family, ran him down.
9 gru 2015 · Vance led the 1888 New Year’s Day arson attack on the McCoy family cabin, resulting in the death of Calvin and Alifair McCoy, the grown children of patriarch Randall McCoy. In this incident, Vance bludgeoned Randall’s wife Sarah McCoy with a rifle butt as she tried to reach her dying daughter.
8 lis 2021 · In December 1864, Asa Harmon McCoy left the Union Army and returned to his home in Kentucky. Just 13 days later, he was dead, murdered by a group of pro-Confederate guerrillas led by a man named Jim Vance.
A week later, on January 8, 1888, Vance and Cap Hatfield, Devil Anse's son, were surprised by a larger party of Kentuckians near Vance's Logan (now Mingo) County home. Vance was wounded in the shootout, then killed in cold blood and at close range by McCoy partisan Frank Phillips.
