Volume 14 , Issue 23

Duchess of Weaselskin

From the top of the mountain we can view and bless the beauty below. Lady Sadie and NW Okie put on their hiking, climbing shoes, venturing to the top of the mountain behind their home here in Southwest Colorado Rockies, North of Bayfield. I can tell you that NW Okie got a bit nervous when Sadie would get close to the edge and peak at the scene below.

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100 Years Ago Today - 4 June 1912

Remember the Gun Men In Battle On the Bowery? Who was "Chick Trigger?" Families were not the only ones who were feuding. It did not stop in the late 19th century with the Hatfields & McCoys, either.

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NW Okie's Corner

With the mini-series of the Hatfields & McCoys Feuds this last week, we gathered from the Hatfields-McCoy feud, it was what seemed to this writer a consequence, aftereffects of a war between the North & South, where communities were divided, struggling for economic power as men returned to their homes never forgiving those that deserted the cause or fought on the Union side.

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Highland, Virginia - A Part Of Appalachians Valley & Ridge

We find that Highland county, Virginia was a part of the Appalachia Valley & Ridge. The Appalachia stretched diagonally, northeast to southwest across North America and into the southeast part of Canada.

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Angelina Grimke - Abolitionist, Author & Suffragist

Angelina Grimke (1805-1879), U.S. abolitionist, suffragist, feminist, and author. Letters to Catherine E. Beecher, Letter No. 12 (1838). The following quote is from a letter dated 2 October 1837. Beecher, a prominent educator of women, was an anti-suffragist.

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The Hatfields & McCoys - A Documentary

The Hatfield-McCoy feud (1863-91) involved two families of the West Virginia-Kentucky area along the Tug Fork, off the Big Sandy River. The Hatfields of West Virginia were led by William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield. The McCoys of Kentucky were under the leadership of Randolph "Ole Ran'l" McCoy. Those involved in the feud were descended from Ephraim Hatfield (born c. 1765) and William McCoy (born c. 1750). The feud entered the American folklore lexicon as a metaphor for any bitterly feuding rival parties. More than a century later, the story of the feud has become a modern metaphor for the perils of family honor, justice and vengeance. - Hatfield-Mccoy Feud

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John Hatfield Pardoned, But Banished (1904)

In The Saint Paul Globe, dated 24 July 1904, in Minnesota, we find the headlines, Pardons Hatfield But Banishes Him. The leader of the famous Kentucky feudists was released, but must leave State. As the news story states, out of Frankfurt, Kentucky, July 23, 1904, - "Under promise never again to set foot in the state of Kentucky, Johnson Hatfield one of the survivors of the Hatfield-McCoy feud, has been pardoned from the Kentucky penitentiary, where he was serving a life sentence for murder."

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Elias Hatfield Killed In a Tunnel By Train

In The Bee, 12 January 1905, we find that Elias Hatfield, Noted for his connection with the Hatfield-Mccoy feud, is dead. Elias Hatfield was killed in a tunnel near Earlington, Kentucky, on a sunday as he was walking through the tunnel when a train overtook him. His body was mangled. That it wasn't a rifle ball which killed him is surprising. None of the Hatfields probably ever expected to die in any other way.

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Thomas Hatfield Bound To Tree (1908)

It was reported Friday, 28 February 1908, in Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle county, Kentucky newspaper, Mount Vernon Signal, that Thomas Hatfield of Pike county, who was caught by feud enemies, in the mountains along Trigg river, in West Virginia two weeks ago, bound to a tree and left to die of exposure, died at a hospital there, having been found and brought to Louisa from West Virginia. Hatfield was a member of the Hatfield clan in the famous Hatfield-Mccoy feud.

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Hatfield, Survivor of Feud, Willing To Take His Medicine

The Pensacola Journal, dated 6 November 1909, reported that J. W. Hatfield, survivor of feud, was willing to take his medicine. As the Los Angeles, Cal., and Associated Press reported, November 5, 1909 -- "With an eloquent plea that he had committed a crime and willing to take his medicine, but imploring the court to release him from prison before he became a gray-haired old man, J. W. Hatfield, one of the last survivors of the famous Hatfield-McCoy feud in Kentucky and a Rough Rider who fought at San Juan, told Judge Davis yesterday in the superior court that he had run away with 14-year--old Pearl Eastman, of Ventura county, because he wanted to marry her. He was sentenced to five years in San Quentin, the minimum under the law.

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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.

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