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Monthly Archives: December 2016

Betty McCoy Residence (2016)

12 Monday Dec 2016

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Hatfield-McCoy Feud

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Appalachia, Betty McCoy, cemeteries, feuds, Hatfield-McCoy Feud, history, Johnse Hatfield, Kentucky, photos, Pike County, Roseanna McCoy, Stringtown

On December 7, 2016, I visited the Betty McCoy House at Stringtown, Pike County, Kentucky. According to tradition, Roseanna McCoy gave birth to her child by Johnse Hatfield here at Aunt Betty’s residence in 1881. The romance between Johnse and Roseanna represents one of the more familiar events of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud. NOTE: The present-day house includes the original log structure. Until recent years, this home stood across the highway and faced the river.

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Betty McCoy residence in Stringtown, Pike County, KY. According to legend, Roseanna McCoy gave birth to Sarah Elizabeth at this location in 1881.

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Betty McCoy residence in Stringtown, Pike County, KY. According to legend, Johnse Hatfield continually tried to see Roseanna while she stayed here with Aunt Betty.

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Historical Marker at Stringtown, Pike County, KY. This is Site 2 on the Hatfield and McCoy Driving Tour brochure.

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To reach Sally’s grave in the McCoy cemetery, you go up these steps…

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And up these steps…

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Sarah Elizabeth “Sally” McCoy grave at Stringtown, Pike County, KY.

Chapmanville News 02.19.1926

12 Monday Dec 2016

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Chapmanville, Stone Branch

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Appalachia, Cecil Ward, coal, Crocket Hatfield, Godby Branch School House, history, Huntington, J.H. Vickers, Logan Banner, Omar, Squire Lowe, Stone Branch School, Tennis Hatfield, Tompkins By-Product Coal Company, W.T. Quay, West Virginia

An unknown local correspondent from Chapmanville in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on February 19, 1926:

Prof. McClure, the postmaster at Omar, officiated as auctioneer at the pie social here last Saturday evening. The professor can sell pies.

J.H. Vickers is, we are glad to say, able to be out again.

Some local capitalists are organizing to take over the Tompkins By-Product Coal Company.

Revival services are being held at both churches this week.

Cecil Ward of Huntington was calling on his sweetie here, Sunday.

Mase Butcher says he hears he is going to be the first man fired when Tennis Hatfield becomes sheriff of this county.

We have a bachelor here who has abandoned all hope of ever getting married. He is now growing himself a fine mustache.

W.T. Quay of Huntington was in town Wednesday.

The road crew are moving the Godby Branch school house this week, so the children are getting a vacation.

Crocket Hatfield, deputy U.S. Marshal, was in town Wednesday. Some of the boys took with a sudden leaving immediately after his arrival.

The church house at Stone Branch that was being used for a school for the primary grades burned down on Monday morning.

Squire Lowe has some very important cases on his docket which will come up for trial in the near future.

Randolph McCoy Home Site (2016)

12 Monday Dec 2016

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Hatfield-McCoy Feud

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Appalachia, Brandon Kirk, Diggers, feud, feuds, Frank Phillips, George Wyant, Hardy, Hatfield-McCoy Feud, history, Kentucky, National Geographic, Neil Warren, photos, Pike County, Randolph McCoy, Tim Saylor

On December 7, 2016, I visited the Randolph McCoy Home Place in Hardy, Pike County, Kentucky. Neil Warren provided a friendly welcome to the property and offered detailed historical insight into the Hatfield-McCoy Feud. If you are following the Hatfield and McCoy Driving Tour brochure, this is Site 3.

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Signage leading to the Randolph McCoy Home Site in Hardy, Pike County, KY. Local resident Neil Warren will likely greet you right away and provide much historical information. Mr. Warren is a great host.

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Here I am standing “inside” of the Randolph McCoy home. This is the location of the infamous New Year’s Day raid in 1888. It was incredibly powerful to visit the location of this tragedy, which I first read about as a high school student over 25 years ago. The awful events that transpired here are what brought the feud to national attention. Photo by Suzy Phillips (descendant of Frank Phillips).

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Just back of the McCoy home site is this woody slope. I looked up into these trees and imagined Hatfields swarming down upon the McCoy cabin. After surveying the property, my lasting impression of this site was: “I don’t see how Randolph McCoy survived this attack.”

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This large bottom is located behind Randolph McCoy old home site. “King” George Wyant and Tim “Ringy” Saylor of National Geographic’s “Diggers” TV program have twice visited here. http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/diggers/episodes/hatfields-mccoys/

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The wooded slope behind the McCoy cabin fascinated me. The McCoy cabin had been extremely close to the slope making it easy to shoot down on Randolph McCoy’s family from above… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc1AWh40PZ4

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The Randolph McCoy well. Wonderful to realize that Randolph and his family drank from it. A piece of history.

Chapmanville News 02.19.1926

12 Monday Dec 2016

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Creek, Boone County, Chapmanville

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A.J. Thomas, Allie Thomas, Appalachia, Bertha Bryant, Big Creek, C.A. Vickers, Carrie Burgess, Chapmanville, Charley Barker, Dicy Thomas, Dorothy Baisden, genealogy, history, J.A. Drake, John Bias, Kessler-Hatfield Hospital, Logan, Logan Banner, Logan County, Lula Vickers, Manila, Martha Roberts, Rommie Barker, Seybert Hager, Simmie Bias, W.H. Garrett, West Virginia, Willie Stollings

An unknown local correspondent from Chapmanville in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on February 19, 1926:

Mrs. Carrie Burgess, of Chapmanville is visiting relatives at Manila.

A.J. Thomas, of Big Creek, was a business caller in this city last week.

Mrs. Allie Thomas, of Big Creek and daughter, Miss Dicy, visited Chapmanville friends recently.

Simmie Bias, of Manila, was taken to the Kessler-Hatfield hospital last week.

C.A. Vickers is ill at this writing.

The population is increasing at Chapmanville.

W.H. Garrett was seen on our streets driving a one horse wagon.

Willie Stollings was a business caller here last week. He hauled a few sacks of chop. He was last seen pushing on his wagon up the Chapmanville hill. He reports bad roads.

Messrs. Seybert Hager and Rommie Barker, of Manila were seen in this city recently.

Charley Barker made a business trip to Logan Saturday.

Mrs. Bertha Bryant still makes her home at John Bias’ residence since her father moved away.

Mrs. Lula Vickers has been visiting relatives at Logan for the past week.

Miss Dorothy Baisden was a pleasant caller at Mrs. Martha Roberts this week.

J.A. Drake likes Chapmanville. He sticks there like paper on a wall.

Mrs. Martha Robert is on the sick list this week.

Paris Brumfield Grave (2016)

06 Tuesday Dec 2016

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Civil War, Harts, Lincoln County Feud

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34th Battalion Virginia Cavalry, 45th Battalion Virginia Infantry, Appalachia, Brandon Kirk, cemeteries, civil war, genealogy, Harts, history, Lincoln County, Lincoln County Feud, Nathan Kirk, Paris Brumfield, Paris Brumfield Family Cemetery, Phyllis Kirk, Vincent A. Witcher, West Virginia

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Here we are placing the marker. Paris Brumfield Family Cemetery, Harts, Lincoln County, WV. 29 November 2016. Photo by Mom.

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Paris Brumfield served in the 45th Battalion Virginia Infantry from 1863-1864 and also under Lt. Col. Vincent “Clawhammer” Witcher in the 34th Battalion Virginia Cavalry from 1864-?.

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Paris Brumfield is my great-great-great-grandfather and a major character in my book, “Blood in West Virginia: Brumfield v. McCoy.” Photo by Nathan Kirk.

W.C. Browning Estate (1897)

06 Tuesday Dec 2016

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Logan

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Appalachia, farming, genealogy, history, Logan County, R.F. Mitchell, W.C. Browning, West Virginia

The following is the list of appraisement of the estate of W.C. Browning, deceased, as given by the appraisers, to wit:

1 Roan horse, $35.00

1 Dark bay mule, $75.00

1 Sorrel blazed face horse, $40.00

1 set blacksmith tools, $15.00

2 Bulls (twins) 3 yrs old, $30.00

3 yoke of cattle & rigging, $120.00

1 cripple steer, $10.00

2 walnut logs, $10.00

1 Set irons on horse wagon, $5.00

1 cane mill, $20.00

2 set flow gears, $5.00

1 cow & calf (calf died before day of sale), $20.00

1 cow & calf 15 yrs old, $15.00

1 load chain, $5.00

1 South bend chilled plow 2 right, $4.00

1 Hillside turner, $2.50

1 South Bend chilled broke, $1.50

1 dinner bell, $2.00

1 Pair scales (Platform), $4.00

1 Pair scales (Scoop), $1.50

2 7/11 Augers, $1.70

2 cans mixed paint, $2.50

1 can oil finish, $.50

3 12 gallons jars stoneware, $3.60

9 Bottles of Soothing Syrup, $1.75

10 ox bells, $1.50

2 thread cabinets 50, $1.00

2 molasses barrels, $.25

1 oil tank, $2.50

2 saws crosscut, $1.00

20 Bee guns, $40.00

8 head hogs large size, $32.00

13 head hogs shoats, $13.00

2 Sows & 8 pigs, $12.00

1 heifer, $12.00

1 log wagon (junk), $4.00

1 kittle 2 br., $2.00

1 Safe, $2.50

1 bed clothes and stead, $15.00

1 feather bed, $6.00

1 lounge stead & tick, $7.00

1 bed mattress & stead, $12.00

1 clock, $2.50

1 Bureau, $6.00

1 Sewing machine, $10.00

1 large trunk, $2.00

1 small trunk, $.50

1 gun rifle, $8.00

1 watch, $18.00

23 covers, quilts, Blankets, counterpanes, $23.00

2 Vol. Vir & Va, $5.00

1 Hitchcock’s Analysis of Bible, $2.50

1 Bible Scenes & Studies, $1.50

1 Sea & Land, $1.00

1 King’s Physicians, $2.00

1 Memoir Duncan, $.25

1 bed Mattress, $5.00

2 bedsteads, $3.00

2 tables, $2.00

1 cupboard, $2.50

5 dishes, $1.00

5 cups & saucers, $.20

1 Set plates, $.25

1 pitcher, $.25

glassware, $.25

1 stove & out fit, $5.00

1 Pair Saddle pockets, $4.00

11 chairs & rocker, $3.60

1 glass, $.50

1 man Saddle, $1.50

2 Shovel plows and Stalks, $1.00

5 Broad hoes, $.50

2 Matlocks, $.65

2 axes, $1.00

1 pitchfork, $.30

1 frou?, $.50

1 chisel, $.20

1 musical clock, $1.00

1 Shovel, $.15

R.F. Mitchell, administrator of W.C. Browning, deceased

Source: File No. 60, Case No. 66, Logan County Circuit Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV.

Feud Poll 1

If you had lived in the Harts Creek community during the 1880s, to which faction of feudists might you have given your loyalty?

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