Volume 14 , Issue 23

Devil Anse Hatfield Dead

Finally, that brings us to a news article concerning "Devil Anse" Hatfield that we found in The Mt. Sterling Advocate, 11 January 1921.

"Devil Anse" Hatfield noted leader of the Hatfield -McCoy feud of thirty years ago, is dead. Word of his death Thursday night in the Hatfield hoe at Island Creek, Logan county, W. Va., was received Friday. Pneumonia caused his death.

"Anderson ("Devil Anse") Hatfield was one of the leaders of the historic feud between the Hatfield and McCoy families in the mountains of Northern kentucky. shot at from ambush and in hand-to-hand combat scores of times with the McCoys, he had always predicted he would live to die a natural death.

"The celebrated feud of the Hatfield family with the McCoys was start over some hogs, one of the Hatfields winning a law suit that was brought to determine their ownership."   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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