The Hatfield-McCoy feud may have started with a mysterious wartime murder. But it deepened because of a razorback hog. In 1878 — 13 years after Asa’s death — his brother Randolph McCoy ...
At the center of the of the conflict were the two family patriarchs: William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield and Randolph McCoy. As legend has it, two neighboring families in the backwoods of ...
In 1882, Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield's brother was murdered by three sons of Randolph McCoy. Within a matter of days, Devil Anse and his ad hoc militia executed the three McCoys.