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2 kwi 2014 · In 1865, he was shot and killed by someone who objected to his Union sympathies. It is believed by some that either Devil Anse Hatfield or his fellow Confederate leader Jim Vance murdered Asa....
No charges were ever filed but it was widely known that Vance and members of Hatfield's Wildcats were directly responsible for his death.
On August 24, 1888, eight of the Hatfields and their friends were indicted for the murder of Randolph's young daughter Alifair McCoy (sometimes spelled Allaphare), who was killed during the New Year's Massacre.
Died: 1890, Pike County, Kentucky, United States of America. Sally was a mother of sixteen children and her husband was Old Randall; leader of the McCoy clan during the Hatfield v McCoy feud (and they were first cousins—Sarah’s maiden name was McCoy).
1 sty 2019 · Without Devil Anse himself being present, the Hatfields set fire to the cabin of Randolph McCoy, the head of the McCoy family. Although Randolph escaped, two of his grown children were killed. And the Hatfields bludgeoned his wife Sarah, leaving her for dead.
15 sie 2016 · Tensions between the two families had started rising a few days earlier, when Ellison Hatfield—the brother of Hatfield patriarch “Devil Anse”—was mortally wounded by three of Randolph McCoy’s sons in a drunken election-day brawl. Apparently, the fight occurred over a small debt owed on a fiddle.
Eight Hatfields surrounded Randall McCoy’s cabin on the first night of 1888, led by Jim Vance, who was so impulsively violent that he was known as Crazy Jim.
