#Diarie letters from hatfield and mccoy full
#Diarie letters from hatfield and mccoy trial

This is the home of Preacher Anderson Hatfield, who was my Great Great Grandfather on both sides. They probably neve enjoyed any bear grease, either. It is on Tug River at Stringtown, Kentucky.ĭean King said in the first paragraph of his Preface that in 1890 my ancestors were “hunkered down in smoky cabins on the brink of stir-craziness–subsisting on razorback pork, venison, corn meal and bear grease.” Grandpa Uriah died in 1889, but his surviving family members were definitely not hunkered down in a smoky cabin the following winter. This is the home of my Great, Great Grandfather, Uriah McCoy. Ol’ Ran’l would have been sixty-five in 1890, so, unless he found Ponce de Leon’s fountain, that ain’t Ol’ Ran’l in King’s book.

You can see it in the photo above.Ĭlick this thumbnail to see what Maureen Taylor, known nationally as “The photo-detective” says about the photo. Here’s the fake photo of Ol’ Ran’l, which appears on page 22 of King’s “True Story.” Apologies again for cropping off Ran’l’s ultra-modern hairstyle. King once more enlightening the public while showing them a fake photo of Randolph McCoy. The “one on the left” was the Asa Harmon fake, and the “one on the right” was a photo of an unidentified man in similar attire. King peddles as the “True Story.”Ĭlick on this thumbnail to see what Maureen Taylor said about Mr. King, and also on page 37 of the massive compendium of legends and lies Mr. Sorry it is cropped at the top, hiding his snazzy crew-cut, which is visible in the photo above. Asa Harmon died in either late December, 1864 or early January, 1865, Maureen Taylor, one of America’s premier photographic experts, dates the photo from twenty to twenty-five years after Asa Harmon McCoy died. This is the faux Asa Harmon McCoy photo being shown in the photo of Dean King above. A fine man who raised a fine family, this Floyd is disrespectfully referred to by many feud writers as “Hog Floyd.”Īmerica’s number one “Feud story supersizer,” Dean King, imparting his wisdumb to a crowd of his admirers, while standing in front of a fake photo of Asa Harmon McCoy. Floyd was a tenant on land owned by my Great Grandfather, Uriah McCoy at the time of the infamous hog dispute with Randolph McCoy. Keith Davis.įloyd Hatfield, son of John and double first cousin to Devil Anse Hatfield, and family. Wrongly depicted as “Hog Floyd” in books by Lisa Lather, Dean King and F. My Great, Great Uncle, Floyd Hatfield, who arrested the three McCoys who killed Ellison Hatfield on August 7, 1882.

#Diarie letters from hatfield and mccoy trial

After a year of trying, with the help of two who turned “state’s evidence,” the Pikeville crowd was unable to bring him to trial and had to release Selkirk for lack of evidence. Cline helped organizxe the Frank Phillips gang, which kidnapped Selkirk and took him to Pikeville, where he was falsely charged in the 1882 murder of his three cousins. She is Margaret “Peggy” Mounts, the sister of Rich Jake Cline, and therefore the aunt of Perry Cline. The 1880 Census shows a 98-year-old woman living in the household of Selkirk McCoy. A Splendid soldier and gentleman–a REAL McCoy.

Note that one of the three persons swearing to the indictment was Nancy McCoy Hatfield, later married to Frank Phillips.

Warrant issued for Frank Phillips gang for the murder of Logan County Deputy William Dempsey. The 1882 Indictment for the murders of the three McCoys who had killed Ellison Hatfield.

#Diarie letters from hatfield and mccoy full

I do this with full knowledge that the feud liars will continue to disseminate their compilations of falsehoods as history nevertheless, it is my hope that at least a few youngsters will see these records and become interested in real history as opposed to fable. With that in mind, I have decided to collect the most important documents and photos used in the book and on the Blog here, making them available to all who wish to see the actual record. The variance between the actual historical record and the feud fables is so great that many folks refuse to believe it unless they see the actual records. The public record thoroughly demolishes the feud yarn in all its iterations, from Spears in 1888 to King in 2013. The public records, available in the courthouses in Pikeville and Logan and in the archives in Frankfort and Charleston, are anathema to the writers of feud fables.