Forgotten 200 year old cabin and cemetery of John McCoy and Margaret Jackson, Gods country, Kentucky

We set out to find a forgotten 200 year old cabin and cemetery, belonging to the uncle of Hatfield and McCoy feudist Randolph McCoy. John McCoy and his wife Margaret both died the same day and are buried in one grave. Ironically his Birthday is almost 235 years ago, 2 days from putting this video up. They are Poetically together forever spiritually and physically.
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[@DolittleMccoy]

Very Nice video... John and Margaret McCoy are my 3rd great grand parents. John Buttermilk and Nancy are my 2nd great grandparents... I can tell you all of the info that you would like to know about the old cabin location if you'd like. I built the stone for John Buttermilk about 15 years ago, have only been back a very few times since then.. The property was a larger boundary back in those days. It was given to Old William McCoy by the government for his service in the Revolutionary War. It was then given to John McCoy (son)... John and Margaret McCoy left Brushy in the 1830s and lived around Hatfield Tunnel in WV until the beginning of the Civil War. Their son John Buttermilk moved back to brushy in the 1850s and built the log house and lived there. He sent for his parents John and Margaret when the civil war broke out. They lived there until their death. The old house and property was later given to buttermilk's son William Trigg McCoy... It exchanged hands afew times in the 20th century.... Feel free to msg me if you have any questions about the place and people. Thanks

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank You!

[@kelleymccoy7456]

Do you have any info on John buttermilk son George. George was my husband's great great grandfather. His name was George Washington Mccoy married to Elliza Jane. His daddy was born in pike County. We don't know much we have never had a family Bible. My father in laws mother pass away when he was a boy or young teenager. The woman are the ones that seem to pass down this kind of information. Thank you

[@marlenec6508]

On the tombstone of John Buttermilk McCoy's listed children is Harrison F. McCoy who is my great Grandfather. I would love to know where he is buried. and more about him. My grandmother died when mom was a toddler. Grandfather remarried and i did not know any of the McCoy family. Do you know anything about him or his kin?

[@nancystevens7447]

Did they have a school at one time? Great heritage,thanks for sharing your families story. Shame to be lost to time and the elements.

[@DolittleMccoy]

@@nancystevens7447 I don't believe that they had school there, But with it being in such a rural area, they may have at one point in time.. It was lived in my many different families up until the 1960s. Including church services. The house and property was up for sale in the late 90s and was sold not long afterwards. The owner has intentions of fixing it, but I'm not sure if there will be any progress in the future or not...

[@karla7225]

I too am a McCoy descendant. In 1991 my aunt published a McCoy family history book and i am recognising some of these names! Thank you for showing us some of our history! Love it!

[@joycebooher]

Circuit riders were preachers who rode miles and miles to different churches on their circuit route, because many communities didn’t have preachers, so these men rode to one church one Sunday and another the next Sunday, and so on. I had 3rd, 4th and 5th great grandfathers who did this here in Kentucky, and they were Methodist preachers, so it must have been common for the Methodist organization. Happy Birthday Heather!

[@brianlykins6663]

Couple of things on this video. First, again, I would like to tell Miss Heather Happy Birthday. May God bless you with many more. Secondly, it is ashamed that the old cabin couldn't have been found 30 - 40 years ago and be restored and preserved. That way, it would've stood another 100 years. Timbers that built that cabin had to be 18 to 24 inches or more wide, cut down, hand hewn, hand cut joints, amazing huge trees. The add on, probably a kitchen was added much later, you could see that they were cut on a saw mill. Would've been a great old cabin. Lastly, thank y'all for going all those extra miles to bring us these stories. Leo, do me a favor being you're there and I'm here, give Heather a big Texas birthday hug, and I'll let you give her a big birthday kiss. God bless y'all for all that y'all do. Stay safe out there on your travels.

[@lisalking2476]

This was truly another Great vidio Leo and Heather ❤ my Daddy's father William (Bill) Jude was an Old Regular Baptist Preacher in early 1900's I was told he an my Granny Sally Jude would travel around and helped Est. many old Regular Baptist church's around Southern Kentucky. I never got to meet my Daddy's Poppy 😕 but Granny lived to 98 years old and was well known and loved ❤ my Daddy just past away at 83 years old 1/27/23 💔 the baby of his family and last of 9 children they had he grew up on Wolf Creek most of my Aunts and Uncles are buried in our families cemetery behind the house with Granby and my Pa is buried on top of the mountain behind there old home place ❤ I have had stage 4 lung cancer 4yrs now and I'm praying i get to make it back this next june for our family reunion and I'm going try to make it up that old mountain ⛰ just one more time to pay my respects 🙏 Daddy took me up onced when i was just a very young girl 😢 Sure do miss my Daddy 💔 😢 on a happier note hope you enjoyed your Birthday Heather 🎂 wishing ya many more beautiful years together ❤ 💙 ya'all stay safe on your adventures and God bless you for preserving and documenting as much history as you can befir it is lost forever ❤ 💙 🙏

[@charliepc56]

I can remember 8 of those old hued log houses within 1 hours walk from my house. Only one remains today. That is some beautiful country, and I enjoyed the cemetery visit and the stories. Thanks for the great video! HAPPY BIRTHDAY HEATHER!! May you celebrate many, many more!

[@cathymcglasson6947]

To bad the cabin couldn't be restored at 200 years old.

[@loril.mangold8160]

That first grave made me cry He was just a baby 9 years old, we had the same birthday

[@alitathomas2711]

My family was from clay KY and wheatcroft, KY. My great grandma was Fanny sue Hill. Her great grandma was Missouri Ann Brown. She came over the trail of tears. Leta

[@cathymcglasson6947]

@@alitathomas2711 My grandpa came over the trail of tears his name was Edward McCollum and he was the only albino there.

[@dorothybentley3808]

Leo you just can't go nowhere without climbing a hill love your heart.💐🐝💐🐝💐

[@kevinbode6483]

A beautiful testament to love.

[@aryan1956]

Happy Birthday Sweetie! Circuit preacher came every few months for marriages, funerals & baptisms.

[@melissaciswhoibe9183]

Happy Birthday Heather! 🎂 🎉 Thanks Leo and Heather for taking us on this adventure. Too bad the gate was locked and the video came to an end. I really enjoyed the video and wanted it to keep going! Lol! 😄 That old cemetery was so beautiful and peaceful on top of that knoll. Man that cabin is just gonna disappear one day and the cemetery too. It's a shame it's like this everywhere. Hard to tell how many stones might have been completely covered over. I watch a guy who is uncovering stones that are completely covered over a foot deep or more with soil and grass. He was using a metal rod and poking down wherever he thought one might be and then digs down to it and puts a flag on it. He had found a bunch. I think it was a cemetery of an old mental hospital. Some had no markers at all. Find A Grave might appreciate this video. They are always needing people to take pics of cemeteries and graves to help people find their dearly departed or just see a pic of a marker if they live too far to travel. I hope you enjoyed your birthday Heather. 🎊 Leo your voice reminds me of a friend of mine and you resemble him too. It's funny how that happens. Lol! Heather you mentioned the Alleghany mountains, I have lived in the Virginia mountains my whole life. They are beautiful and I sure do love them. It's really a small world isn't it? I look forward to more adventures with y'all. Thanks! Have a beautiful blessed day. 🙏

[@edielawrence97]

" Happy Birthday Heather 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 ! " Thank ya'll for taking us along . Much love ❤️ , God bless 🙌 🙏 ...

[@marthacollins8120]

Happy Birthday Heather. Leo a circut rider was a traveling preacher. He had a circuit...or a certain area that he visited on certain Sundays of every month.

[@lisalking2476]

My grandparents William (Bill) Jude and Granny Sally Jude traveled around the Old Regular Baptist churches in Kentucky ⛪ 🙏

[@judyroberds9622]

What a beautiful and peaceful spot for cemetery

[@MrFuzzy1953]

Well, Happy Birthday, Heather...

[@prairiegirl9770]

They are all together for eternity ❤️

[@laurabrooks7655]

They were buried together in the same grave.

[@cherkandra201]

Reminds me of my great grandparents cabin on Joe's Creek in Pikeville. It's funny, but I was just working on this side of the family tree this past weekend.

[@user-gn8if3fq9j]

I learned something new. The difference in "grave yard" and "cemetery"

[@kimberleyannedemong5621]

A beautiful amazing place. As the saying goes you always get you man. Such a shame the cabin was not preserved before it got to the point of no return. The size of those old growth logs is amazing. Nothing like that todayj.

[@carolinagallegos3926]

I wish they would restore the cabin, I'm sure many people would be interested in visiting this beautiful site!! Thank you so much for this, I really did enjoy this!!

[@sandyhawks5240]

Happy birthday Heather. Everything is so pretty since it's greenin up. Love that ol house. I'm sure it was something in its day. The stories it could tell.

[@deannacoker2166]

Happy birthday to Heather! We enjoy all your videos! Keep 'em coming! A "Brushy Creek"was mentioned in the Coal Miner's Daughter. Love the old cabin, and it is too bad it can't be preserved!

[@laurabrooks7655]

I love how the branch and the road run together like Camp Branch in Inez, KY, where my Dad was raised.

[@williambarr2698]

Thank You for sharing. These are the real people that birthed a nation.

[@bigmomma1246]

🎉Happy 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 Heather❤

[@LorieBurk]

WELL HAPPY 😊 BDAY 🎈 🎂 HEATHER MAY U HAVE MANY MANY MORE TO COME IN THE FUTURE TOO HEATHER SPENDING TIME W LEO 🦁 N DOING THIS VIDEO 📷 HEATHER IS A GOOD DAY 🌄TODAY FOR Y'ALL COULDN'T ASK FOR ANYMORE

[@Appalachianancesters]

Happy Birthday Heather! My Grandmother Roxie Elsie Robinette said in her memory notebook that she grew up at the head of one of the Forks of Brushy. Her father's name was Samuel. Thank you both for taking us on your trips.

[@deborahdonnelly8423]

there’s a man who travels the country to old cemeteries and cleans old headstones.

[@debdewitt4779]

Happy birthday Heather thank you for sharing your day with us beautiful area so sad that they couldnt preserve the old home

[@patricatfurever4051]

So crazy they both died on the same day!!

[@dorothybentley3808]

Happy birthday Heather🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂

[@HBHArtLife]

Happy Birthday, Heather 🎉 Wow, that creek & property is gorgeous!

[@mercedithcompala8148]

Happy Birthday, thanks for taking us along ❤🎉

[@Lauren36984]

Happy Birthday Heather!!

[@connie2558]

WoW, you did it again, and on such a special day. In a way you gave a rebirth history day to several young children, who died at ten and eleven years of age. Plus, a first wife that was thought of enough to be buried close to the couple. Happy Birthday, Heather and thanks Leo.

[@laurabrooks7655]

Happy B-day, Heather, and thank you for looking for my ancestors' cabin and cemetery. I've been up Brushy Creek in the days before Google Earth, and I didn't even know if it had more than one way in and out then. My Maynard ancestors also lived on Brushy Creek near the Apple Orchard Old Regular Baptist Church and Cemetery in the early 1800s. Christopher Columbus Maynard supposedly built his first house there under a rock ledge on the opposite side of the road from the church.

[@amygoodson6253]

Leo, If you use a mirror about a 12" square you can see the stones better. You angle the mirror to the sun and it will reflect on the stone. Really helps alot.. I've seen it done on KZbin but have never done it myself.

[@tinadieffenbach9672]

I found out a few years ago I was relation to the Hatfielda. I love reading the stories. Thank you for your stories

[@jimsmirh2406]

Happy Belated Birthday Heather. I love all this old history. Y’all do a wonderful job bringing it out to all of us.

[@lee-annelandownunder4731]

Beautiful video - hope you had a wonderful birthday Heather xxx

[@debpalm8667]

Don't know how I missed this one but watched today. Hope your birthday was a good one, Heather.

[@kimberleyannedemong5621]

Happy Birthday Heather. I hope your birthday trip was wonderful & that you have many happy returns

[@jojoelf1]

Hope your birthday was awesome. If anyone deserves a perfect day, it's you Heather. And you don't look a day older. This is my favorite Cemetery visit yet. A beautiful story and a beautiful, final resting place. Another excellent job as usual.

[@Lauren36984]

Nice to catch you early in this vlog. Hello to Leo too!

[@robcates2383]

Happy BIRTHDAY HEATHER, THANK YOU BOTH, FOR THE VIDEOS!!

[@georginastoliker3358]

What a wonderful day for your Heather🎉🎂🍨 Thanks for taking us along for the history walk.

[@danamaddox9886]

Beautiful place hopefully someone will save it 200 years old.

[@buckwheatsofia]

Great video, loved seeing the old cabin & the graves. It is a shame the cabin can’t be preserved. Happy Birthday Heather, I hope you enjoyed your day exploring!

[@Melissa-pt2ik]

Happy Birthday Heather I hope you have a blessed day

[@user-ok2si5rb9n]

Happy birthday Heather, I agree 💯 percent that it's too bad this cabin couldn't be helped. I hate to see history ignored to disrepair condition. IT SUCKS!

[@loisrohling5277]

Happy Birthday, Heather, my daughter, is, turning 49, on the 23rd.

[@FleegerLinda]

Happy birthday, Heather 🎂

[@amygoodson6253]

Those logs look to be in great shape! The owner should contact Log Cabin Builders in West Virginia.

[@melindaschluter1669]

Happy Birthday Heather!!! Hope you had a wonderful day! ❤❤❤

[@taylorfamily8176]

I just got home from work eating my super and looking at your videos love them

[@claudiadesoto2378]

Happy Birthday, mine was the19th 🎂🎂 I just love the history, Thank You for your wonderful videos

[@Bennett1552]

Happy Birthday Heather have a great day and make sure Leo treats you like a queen well.... that goes for every day, but especially on your birthday 🎉

[@timdyer3551]

Happy Birthday Heather 🎉

[@roos24k65]

Happy Birtday Heather...!!🎉🎂🍰🍦🎁🎀🧨👑🩷💝 Beautifull story. His Mom & Dad died the same year too i see?William & Cordelia 1822..

[@sandrafrancois2609]

Happy Birthday, Heather!🎂🎂💃😞💐

[@sandraharris9284]

Happy birthday, Heather! 🎈

[@barbaramai7610]

First of all, a great big Happy Birthday to Heather! 💝 Thank you two for taking us to this beautiful part of the world!! I really liked the opening of this video, as well as the beautiful scenery, and I am happy you found the cemetery and the grave you were looking for.

[@angelahorne867]

So totally awesome story. Thank you both for sharing.

[@susanlemons5414]

Quite a few headstones back there. Absolutely fascinating

[@thetacticalpanda6247]

Happy Birthday Heather!

[@Vivian-os3hx]

Happy Birthday Heather🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@markduncan122]

Happy birthday 🎉🎂🎁🎉🎊

[@Lauren36984]

I told you all have this investigative ability and finding this old place shows you do!! Thanks!!😮

[@jessiemerritt9147]

Happy Birthday Heather God bless you hope you have many more blessed ones. Absolutely love the way you’re putting history up and all info. So we can pause and read if need be so enjoyable different than others. Beautiful place and it’s like going back in time and history to go with it ty so much. I remember going to townson here in TN close to pigeon forge and Gatlinburg many years ago it was like going back in time I told my mom I didn’t want to leave that’s been between 30 and 40 years ago wow. Been there many times since. These last 2 videos remind me of that 1st trip so many years ago.

[@patricatfurever4051]

Happy Birthday Heather!! 🎊 ❤🎂🥳

[@shorebillyhomestead8436]

Happy belated birthday, Heather!

[@Melissa-pt2ik]

Oh wow it’s so beautiful there

[@H_H_____]

Beautiful scenery and music and it is easy to listen to you talk and you are very kind and respectful. That was a steep climb and very old stones. Seeing the research you did and the old tree and old church and old cabin/church where they died together, all just very picturesque.

[@DavidFarley-br8iq]

Hi Guys...This video only confirms the reason I enjoy watching your videos...Heather it's nice to see you are back..The research that the both of you do and the detail is the reason I follow Hillbillyfiles..Please keep up the great work...D & C from Northeast Pa

[@christinedistelhorst8879]

Happy Belated Birthday to Heather!! This was an awesome adventure with y'all!! Wm stands for William. Thank you for taking us along!!

[@gregorygibson5455]

Happy Birthday Heather and many more

[@danareynolds1976]

Happy birthday Heather it's nice seeing you

[@karenmiller2642]

Happy birthday Heather. 21looks great on you.

[@FeralSheryl1818]

Thanks Leo and Heather. Happy Belated Birthday Heather :) I'm always a day late and a dollar short. So very sad the 2 left this world the same day but maybe a blessing in disguise.

[@eunicestone6532]

Might have been true love.

[@vickywinters8211]

Happy Birthday🎉

[@ramonaharris]

Happy Birthday Heather, I hope you had a wonderful day! Thanks for sharing your day with us. 🎉🎂🎁🥳🎈

[@kerrydennison7947]

Happy birthday Heather. I was guessing that y'all was headed to the Great salt cave up near munfordville Kentucky doing the story on one of my relatives Floyd Collins.

[@dnwlogisticsllc8609]

Happy Birthday!

[@lawanahultquist9342]

Ran across this video by accident really enjoyed it my family's from Eastern Kentucky I live in Wyoming now but I knew you were in Kentucky as soon as you started filming started filming

[@larkhigginbotham5374]

Happy Birthday, Heather!

[@sheilaholmes8175]

I enjoy watching you ,Leo, and Heather. I have been to West Virginia. But been to Kentucky. Very pretty state.

[@evilladollyz7602]

Happy birthday Heather❤❤❤❤❤... Thanks.. What an awesome video!

[@theresajohnson4088]

Happy Birthday Heather 🎂 🥳

[@AmberDarlene]

Happy birthday Heather!!!! And lol at the news flash 😂😂😂

[@Everett-eh4nn]

Incredible piece of property man. Idyllic.

[@JansFAMBAM]

Happy Birthday Heather 🎉🎂🥳!Great Video . Thank you Leo&Heather for sharing your birthday heather

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you! 🤗

[@wheredidthetimego8087]

You can also just get some aluminum and put it on a piece of cardboard and it will reflect the light onto it as well. Oh And Happy Birthday 🎈🎂

[@wheredidthetimego8087]

It’s absolutely beautiful around there!

[@user-uz9gc5tk1h]

Happy birthday Heather. Leo is climbing the mountain again. Lol. Love your videos.

[@julievanzant13]

Happy Birthday Heather!! Thank you for this video. It was beautiful. Funny that you found a Tackett married to a Mullins. My sister in laws maiden name was Tackett and her family comes from KY and WV. My maiden name is Mullin and my dad's family is from around VA and KY. At some point they dropped the s from our last name. Thanks again!!

[@bethgiesey9405]

Beautiful place. Happy Birthday, Heather

[@sandrahunter5749]

Hi Leo and Heather 😊 Happy Birthday Heather 🎂

[@user-vs3vu6ws5q]

Thank you guy's for sharing I really enjoyed it. NOTES FROM A NASHVILLIAN GOD BLESS

[@scampbell3363]

Hey from Memphis. Happy Birthday Heather. Glad you’re doing a video today.

[@karenravi773]

I would love to sell my house in Michigan and move down to pikesville after all that's where my family is from besides Harlan county Kentucky I could do so much with so little to that thank you guys for showing as well as being so respectful God bless