Three McCoy boys killing site and cemetery location - Hatfield McCoy Feud

[@gilbertespino6744]

Thank you for bringing the history of hatfields and the McCoy family s am a huge fan of the history of the West now you get more clear of the story s

[@rebeccamccoy9769]

My family. My grandparents moved away from their way before I was thought of. I don’t know why they moved from there but I do know that they were born and raised there including my grandpa. My family here says he wouldn’t talk about our family there but he passed so I couldn’t ask him anything. To bad lance family won’t give us back our family that they buried on their land. It’s sad. I’m still putting everything together. Thank you for sharing and merry Christmas from a real true McCoy. Yes our cemetery is private for good reason

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Not talking about it is a common theme from both sides Im finding

[@angelatoler4269]

My grandma is a MCcoy her father is Jake MCcoy his father is Larkin MCcoy his father is Asa MCcoy which makes Randell my Great Great Great uncle

[@BuckCommander8]

I don’t know a lot about the feud, but I’m learning more from videos like these. Maybe it’s just the way I interpret things, but it seems like the Hatfield’s we’re usually in the wrong and continually escalated the feud. It seems like the feud could’ve died several times, but the Hatfield’s always seemed to do something to reignite it. I could be wrong, but if you had to label good vs bad…the McCoy’s would be the good guys. I’m not saying the McCoy’s never did anything wrong, but the Hatfield’s always seemed to do worse. Do most people feel that way or am I wrong?

[@ironbutterfly6835]

@@BuckCommander8 I feel just the opposite. For instance the Mccoys attacked Ansa brother , he fought them alone and was winning. Two other Mcoys jumped in with knives and stabbed Ellison multiple times. One boy stepped on and shot him. He lived several days and Ansa tracked the boys down and held them saying if Ellison lived he’d let them go. Ellison died Ansa allowed the boys mother see them but denied Randol. The boys were tied to Paw Paw trees and shot. Hillbillie Justice. McCoys hired bounty hunters and. Bad Frank Phillips and his posse illegally pursued Hatfields and murdered them. To me it’s understandable why both families took things in theirs due to lack of legal justice at that time

[@chrismancini5645]

​@angelatoler4269 your great great great grandfather was murdered in cold blood.

[@firefly6027]

A woman I worked with made a trip to West Virginia, after the Kevin Costner miniseries came out, to visit some of the sites. After she returned she had nothing but good things to say about the locals. I myself, accompanied a friend to her Grandmother's funeral in West Virginia 1990. I had the same experience. Some of the friendliest, most down to earth people I have ever met.

[@RonSmith-w8l]

Thanks so much for the videos appreciate the knowledge and humor and so wonderful that Leo and Heather are doing this together .I am a decendant of The Great State Of West Virginia , my Father was born in Hur West Virginia in 1935 , His Father was Everett And Grandfather Amos , I'm related to the Starchers , with were big families, just wanted to put them in there , Great Work , God Bless . From Smith 22-204

[@loriebriarton2285]

Thanks for 'taking one for the team' and getting out in that cold to bring us another enjoyable video! Take care and keep warm all!

[@thehillbillyfiles]

thank you!

[@Doglady58]

Doesn't seem right that you have to get permission to visit your ancestors. And that they "own" your family's cemetery. Sad

[@bobbyjones8752]

Hi I just came across some of your videos yesterday and today,been sick and laying around the house which is not me. I’ve enjoyed the info and the sights of those areas. Beautiful scenery and would like to visit sometime soon. Take care and good to hear from what I gather from the videos that Devil Anse Hatfield accepted Jesus in his later part of life.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Yes, he did.

[@homerwiggins3965]

I just discovered your channel and have watched two so far but will be binge watching more! I subscribed!! I appreciate y’all getting out on Christmas Eve in freezing weather to make this one! I am 5th cousin to Randall McCoy so really excited to see and hear all the history of the feud and other stuff! Keep up the good work! I’m in Virginia.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@Teeganlilhillbilly]

I love the work y’all do!!!!

[@jessiemerritt9147]

Love your alls videos . Bet I’ve watch at least 7 off and on today. God bless you and your family. I keep forgetting to leave comments. Watching older ones ty

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thanks so much! We appreciate that.

[@assassin1148]

I’ve been learning all I can about this feud I’m a direct descendent from both sides McCoy on my moms side and hat field on my dads I find that to be so awesome

[@thehillbillyfiles]

I'm related to both sides as well

[@polly-katytx8432]

New to the channel!! Love the content and the way the stories are told! Huge fan now!! Thx from Houston!

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Glad you like them! thanks for joining

[@charlespruett9066]

My new favorite channel love what you two are doing. I know I been commenting on a lot of your videos but I want you to know how great I think you are. Keep it up!!!!

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Awesome! Thank you! It's appreciated trust me 🙂

[@cathymcglasson6947]

Great video enjoyed listening to you on Christmas Eve.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you Cathy!

[@nathanalmond8280]

Merry Christmas to y'all. Thanks for sharing the video. Always enjoy the history.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Merry christmas!

[@garymanuel4710]

Merry Christmas back to you

[@erinikeuchi6447]

Another great video. Thank you for sharing.

[@marlenataylor8758]

Merry Christmas and thank you for giving us the history

[@botoepfer8588]

really love your work !

[@lauradougherty8426]

Thanks for sharing and merry Christmas 🎅🎄

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Merry Christmas Laura!

[@justinsheesley6378]

I love these videos. Thank you for making them

[@steveball1339]

Enjoyed the video, thank you, Merry Christmas!

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Merry Christmas 🎄

[@brendashaw2035]

Great video! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you! Merry Christmas Laura!

[@sherricassady779]

Celebration day, Memorial Day, was the 1 day a year our families would meet. Everyone would have a bite to eat and then break off to go clean up the cemeteries. Moving fallen trees and what not. My family was one of the first 5 families to settle in Mingo county. My great aunt Alta Cassady married Prior McCoy. My family also married into the hatfields as well. I’m proud to be part of both families. Daddy never talked about any of this but my DNA & documents gave me all I needed to know. I am of Appalachian decent and I’m proud of it! ❤

[@sherricassady779]

Daddy was born in Chattaroy. The Murphy Cemetery in Kermit is MINE!

[@robertcates4066]

Great video. You have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Merry Christmas ⛄🎄

[@daves2552]

Born and raised TN woods so we were taught to always respect others property but if you buy property with an historic site on it you gotta expect some traffic for visitors

[@jerryhoschouer5131]

Awesome video get warm stay safe Merry Christmas my Friends. 🌲

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Merry Christmas Jerry!

[@debdewitt4779]

Merry Christmas. LEO and Heather Leo hope you don't freeze thank for all the history I love your videos You and Heather are having a very cold and beautiful white Christmas 🎄 ❤️ it's cold here in Florida 22 degrees last night and 27 today suppose to get colder tonight and tomorrow I'm freezing 🥶

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you so much! Heather was born in Key west. Merry Christmas!

[@jenniferwaddell4418]

Thank for sharing this I been looking for this info

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Glad I could help

[@marlenegreiner747]

I truly enjoy watching your documentary on the Hatfield s and mcoys

[@brendahaverfield6035]

Hi, thank you for doing the videos. I was just wondering if you ever did go to the cemetery where the McCoy boys are and did you do a video on that. I’ve not yet seen that video and I’ve been keeping an eye out.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Not yet

[@David-Air-Force-Vet]

Merry Christmas to you and yours

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Merry Christmas ⛄🎄

[@creolelady182]

This feud started way back in Scotland and carried over to the new world of the United States. One has to ask oneself were those clans really that dangerous and the answer is yes

[@corahester9138]

Hatfield came England, not Scotland.

[@securityconsultant9036]

Celtics clans were dangerous we have family history that a relative had been killed by another family. So our family sailed to where these folks were and killed everyone.

[@belindaturnersmith5610]

My family both sides come from Jellico Tn. since latter 1700’s before that Virginia. Heather you have a wonderful narrator voice. And Leo, every time you laugh, I crack up. Keep your entertaining videos coming, I enjoy watching them.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you Belinda! Happy New year

[@connierichards9121]

Lol. My father from highcliff area in Jellico. Lived right across from the Baptist church.

[@belindaturnersmith5610]

@@connierichards9121 we might quite possibly be related.

[@connierichards9121]

@@belindaturnersmith5610 maybe. Small world. My dad was a Baker. 4 brothers and 4 sisters.

[@belindaturnersmith5610]

@@connierichards9121 my relatives are Smith, Douglas, Huddleston, Bowlin, Lay, and Creekmore, just to name a few.

[@aaronrodriquez3815]

It’s great having all this recent history available and yet a damn shame my State of Texas allowed condo builders to tear down Henry Barrows gas station in Dallas

[@srb2591]

I'm assuming he was related to Clyde? That sucks they would tear something down that has any historical meaning. What was the reason why they didn't want to preserve it ?

[@shannonVwalker]

If I would have been related to either side I would have moved far enough where nether side would have found me plus I would have changed my last name to something they never heard of and forgot them. Hatifeild or Mccoy I don't care who started it or what it was that caused the fight both sides are equally guilty of stupidity. There's a saying takes two to tango.

[@iamthepapi6251]

This story is so crazy. Could you imagine how many things that aren't in it?? All these guys did was find eachother beat each lother kill each other hurt eachother steal from eachother etc. The evil things and the Savage things that they did are just sooo crazy... The emotions were so strong... Its not normal.

[@gilbertespino6744]

Do y'all have a merch store website

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Not really. Sorry.

[@gilbertespino6744]

Oh ok no worries if you did I would love to bought some merch

[@garymanuel4710]

Merry Christmas Everyone from Newfoundland & Labrador, & Thank you Hillbilly Files for all the great interesting video"s & hope you keep them coming in 2023,, God Bless everyone & remember just a smile & hello can brighten up anyone"s day

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you! Happy new year!

[@wingrider687]

Are there any of the pawpaw trees left they were tied to?

[@thehillbillyfiles]

No, they are long gone now.

[@wingrider687]

Thank-you! I found your channel a few days ago and really enjoy your content!

[@judypierce7028]

This is the most awesome video I have seen today. So very interesting!! Where is this marker?

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Buskirk Kentucky and hardy KY, very close to each other, and thanks 🙏

[@kitchiesmom]

It's so sad that those families resorted to that type of violence when they really didn't need to. Killing someone else is so wrong.

[@Rick-bi9fw]

Well sometimes eye for an eye is the only justice people have. Wrong as it sounds its true. Wasn't a Mccoy killed first for fighting with the north and no justice was served? Especially weird considered devil Anse deserted the confederates?

[@kathyowens2456]

You can see the cemetery on Google Earth....neat little rectangular patch.....not close enough for minute details, but, it's there, all right.....very cool.....

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Awesome 👍

[@kimberleyannedemong5621]

Merry Christmas ⛄🎄

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Merry Christmas ⛄🎄

[@michaelbedinger4121]

Hello Heather and Leo. I do apologize for being this late in watching this video, but for the last month, I have been either sick or flat out busy! Interesting video. Thank you for braving the weather to film it. Leo, you are a very brave man to walk 🚶‍♂️ along a narrow side of the road with traffic being what it was. And in icey conditions no less. Good luck visiting the cemetery this spring. Have a great 2023.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you as always Michael, we sure appreciate you!

[@michaelbedinger4121]

@@thehillbillyfiles Thank you very much, you are appreciated as well. May I ask a question? I may have asked it before, if I have please 🙏 excuse me. The well at Randall McCoy's house, would the water 💧 still be safe to drink?

[@thehillbillyfiles]

@@michaelbedinger4121 Yes, as far as I know. A local distillery uses water from it to make Randal McCoy's secret recipe shine from time to time.

[@michaelbedinger4121]

@@thehillbillyfiles Thank you 😊 very much for getting back to me, and for the information. Is this " shine " any good?

[@cynthiacarter514]

🥶❄️☃️⛄️ great video

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you 🤗

[@marvingriffin3692]

Researching my ancestry came to Great-grandfather 4 Alexander Messer one of Devil Anse posse. reading newspaper coverage of the trials the judge gave Alex life in prison with hard labor Alex was quoted as saying "Jege i ant fit to no work".the Court room broke out in laughter, he was the one that went back after the others didn't want to kill the youngest Hatfield him being 14 so Alex told the others that "dead men tell no tales" then went back and shot him in the head blowing his head off. My family lives in Kermit.

[@edwardcash1082]

That was awesome Jim Vance next

[@thehillbillyfiles]

He is happening this week, weather messed it up because we need the side by side to get to the killing site

[@edwardcash1082]

That's wassup y'all just do y'all I can wait merry Christmas to y'all.

[@sidneydaugherty4895]

At the beginning of your video you caught a ghost in the top right window of the cabin. I slowed it down and zoomed in on it. It shows someone without features moving very quickly and looking out the window.

[@FluffyMatt]

At the Paw Paw Site, Were they shot on the Kentucky or West Virginia Side? I have heard they were tied to the trees on the Kentucky side and shot at from the West Virginia side.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

They were shot on the Kentucky side far as we know. Never heard about the wv side aspect. Wouldn't make much sense to me, but who knows

[@martychristian5991]

That is Buskirk, Ky

[@thehillbillyfiles]

right

[@outdoorlife5396]

I think it would have cooled things down a lot to let the law handle the murder.

[@shirleymarchand5800]

It makes perfect sense for these families to guard their properties

[@1980bwc]

You mentioned RIP to the McCoy kids who were killed. Why not mention a RIP for Ellison? I'm not choosing a side by any means, but had they not killed Ellison, their deaths would not have happened. Not at that time, and in that way I mean. What happened to those boys, and their sister before that, was brutal. But, 3 people jumping on one man, and killing him in that fashion, was just as brutal. By the way, I enjoy yalls videos. Keep them coming. 🙂

[@thehillbillyfiles]

I should have mentioned him

[@Mr_badjoke]

The boys were held for a long time. I think they had time to think about this and the viciousness of the crime outweighed Mercy I don't know if there was any confusion as long as they were held

[@mikedickson6362]

My grandmother Betty Varney was a cousin of the Hatfield s

[@Wardaddy1124]

I’m supposed to be some kin to the Hatfields I use to live in Mingo county I was raised there I’m some kin to Johnny Hatfield and Ance Hatfield from ballfork in stone Ky.

[@jimbo1959]

So " Bud's" real name was Randolph Jr.?

[@wandamiller3181]

My 2nd Great Grandmother is Martha Mary An McCoy.

[@larryhead9947]

My kids are direct decendants of Ellison Hatfield

[@jenkat339]

Directly inbred, oh fun.

[@shawnhanns4893]

I need to use a drone and you can see the cemetery

[@thehillbillyfiles]

I plan to get one!

[@lesheath6216]

I'm kind of confused, I was told the McCoys lived on the KY side of the river

[@thehillbillyfiles]

They do, not sure what was said that made it sound like they didn't, I'd have to rewatch the video so I could answer. But yes they lived on Kentucky side

[@connierichards9121]

My ex MIL was a Hatfield and swore she was related to devil Anse. His name was Jake Hatfield. They made their home in the Frakes Ky area before comming on into Eastern Tennessee.

[@kerrydennison7947]

Do you think it was wise to reveal the information that an innocent person was executed? Considering the traditions and hierarchy of the Scottish Irish traditional system of revenge that spans across generations similar to the sins of the father,

[@thehillbillyfiles]

It's not exactly a secret

[@rebeccamccoy9769]

My cousin will let you if you are family of us

[@thehillbillyfiles]

What do you mean

[@kimmy3469]

There are close to 800 descendants of both Devil Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy. That’s just counting direct descendants. I’m not sure just one ☝️ distant relative holds the keys to hundreds of descendants wanting to visit their kin. God bless y’all

[@melindaschluter1669]

Proud to be a hillbilly!!! 😂

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Amen!

[@connierichards9121]

*father name.

[@kentbeery4941]

😂