2014 Hatfield & McCoy Day!
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Our Trip to Heritage Farm Museum and Village 2014
Our Trip to Heritage Farm and Museum 2012.
Our Hatfield and McCoy Day 2012!
Hatfield & McCoys
Devil Anse Hatfield
THE NAMES OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS PHOTO ARE AS FOLLOWS LEFT TO RIGHT: STANDING IN DOORWAY :MARY (DEVIL ANSE'S DAUGHTER), SITTING: LEVICY HATFIELD (DEVIL ANSE'S WIFE),BACK ROW: OCK DAMRON (HIRED HAND), ELIAS HATFIELD (SON), DETRIOT OR TROY HATFIELD (SON), JOE HATFIELD (SON), CAP HATFIELD (SON), BILL BORDEN (STORE OWNER AND FRIEND), FRONT ROW SITTING: TENNYSON OR TENNIS HATFIELD (SON), DEVIL ANSE HATFIED, WILLIS HATFIELD (SON)
The man to the far left (Ock Damron) is an ancestor of student Tyler Damron.
Randolph McCoy
Johnse Hatfield and Roseanna McCoy
Romance blossomed when "Johnse" Hatfield and Roseanna McCoy met on Kentucky election grounds in 1880. By the end of the day, Roseanna decided to go home with Johnse and his family. Randolph was outraged and Devil Anse wasn't too pleased either; neither parent wanted them to marry. When Roseanna heard rumors that some of the family had plans to come "bring her home", to prevent trouble, she returned on her own; now pregnant with Johnse's child. Roseanna moved in with her Aunt Betty McCoy, because her father was so upset, he refused to look at or even speak to her. Johnse continued to visit with Roseanna at her aunt's home, this upset her family. When Roseanna overheard retaliation plans to take Johnse captive, and deliver him to the county seat for outstanding warrants, she feared for Johnse's life. That's when she made the infamous Midnight Ride to warn Devil Anse, who immediately organized a rescue party. They surrounded the McCoy's and took Johnse back to West Virginia before he could be transported to the county seat. Later in 1881, Johnse abandoned Roseanna, now pregnant with his child, and married her cousin, Nancy McCoy. Roseanna and Johnse's baby died young and is buried near her Aunt Betty's home (Aflex, KY). Roseanna also died at the young age of twenty-eight, some say of a broken heart. She is buried at Dils Cemetery in Pikeville, KY.