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Page 6, Will You Give Him a Chance?
No full textThis is a pamphlet used by Pikeville College for fundraising in the 1920s.[caption] Section of Pikeville. Arrow points to College Buildings
occupancy at the opening of the winter term, January 10.
This building was full the first week of the winter term.
The crying need to take care of the extra students that
are clamoring at their doors for admission is a new college
building costing approximately $100,000, in which can be
trained a large corps of rural teachers who in turn can be
sent into the wilds of the mountains and bring to this region
at least a small portion of the advantages that the youths of
the North, West and East have right at their door-step.
The State is, rightly, demanding higher qualifications of its
teachers and the half-million, and more, population of North-
eastern Kentucky is looking to Pikeville College for the train-
ing of their teachers. Former students and graduates fro
Page 8, Will You Give Him a Chance?
No full textThis is a pamphlet used by Pikeville College for fundraising in the 1920s
Page 12, Now It Can Be Told
No full textA book of collected essays written by students from Pikeville College, with a strong focus on the Hatfield and McCoy feud.- 6-
a place called Road Fork of Blackberry Creek at election
time in the year l882. But I must not get ahead of my
story. During the Civil War when Anderson (Devil Anse)
Hatfield had been fighting on the Confederate side, he
killed, in one of the battles, a Union soldier, Harmon
McCoy. Devil Anse came home as a Captain. This is what
really sparked the feud because it caused some bad
feeling among them.
The feud began much later at election time. There
was some disagreement among the two families and a fight
occurred. To help things alone, mountain moonshine was
flowing freely and everyone was feeling excited.
The fight was between Tob (Tolbert) McCoy and Ellison
Hatfield. They were quarrelling and Tob picked up a
large rock and in vile language declared that he would
kill him. Tob threw the rock, but Ellison dodged it.
Then the fists started flying and before anyone knew
what had happened, Tob McCoy had shot Ellison Hatfield,
with a small pistol, in the hip. Then Tob's younger
brother, Randolph, Jr., who was about sixteen years
old, stabbed Ellison in the back with a little pocket
knife. Phamer McCoy, the other brother, probably threw
in his two-cents worth because all three of them were
taken prisoner by the Hatfields, who took them to a
log school house down at Mate Creek (which Matewan is now
a part of.) In the meantime, before Ellison died, the
mother of the McCoys went by horse back to the school and
pleaded with the Hatfields to release them, but to no
avail. After Ellison died, the Hatfields took the three
McCoy prisoners within a fourth of a mile of the Buskirk
Bridge and tied them on the Kentucky side of the
Tug River to pawpaw trees and shot the two older boys.
Then they asked young Randolph to beg for his life and
he replied, “ Go to hell !” At this, they shot him. As they
walked away, they all agreed that this was the best
action anyway since dead men tell no tales
Page 17, Now It Can Be Told
No full textA book of collected essays written by students from Pikeville College, with a strong focus on the Hatfield and McCoy feud.-11 –
of Devil Anse arrested the three McCoys and was going to
take them to the county seat in Pikeville. That night
Devil Anse and the members of his clan over-powered Floyd
and took the three McCoys as prisoners. Devil Anse took the
boys far from where his brother Ellison was lying in bed
fixing to die. He told the three boys that if Ellison died,
be would kill them. If Ellison lived, he would turn them
over to the law. The Hatfields waited for the word. Then
the word came that Ellison had died.
It has been said that on the next day, the McCoys found
Tolbert, Phamer, and Randolph tied to paw paw bushes just
across the Tug River. The story is told that they were in
kneeling position. This is only one of the many incidents
of the feud, probably the worst that ever came to the
mountains of Kentucky and West Virginia.
HOW THE FEUD ENDED
by Charles Holsinger
For the information which I am about to review, I am
indebted to my friends, to my surroundings, and to a book .*
The Hatfields and McCoys who live in nearby towns are a
peace 1oving people. We have living among us the children
whose forefathers fought in the feud. In studying the
history of the feud, we realize what grudges and hatred
can lead to. My portion of the story involves a review of
the gradual dying out of the feud from 1890-1928.
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*The Hatfields and McCoys, by Virgil Carrington Jones
The University of North Carolina Press, 1948. Chaptcrs 23,
24, 25, and 26 reviewed by permission of the publisher.
Several students and the editor have greatly benefited
by some printed information which Alpheus Hatfield,
a student at Pikeville College, brought for reference.
Mr. Hatfield is an honor student whose home is in Belfry
Page 27, Now It Can Be Told
No full textA book of collected essays written by students from Pikeville College, with a strong focus on the Hatfield and McCoy feud
Now It Can Be Told
No full textA book of collected essays written by students from Pikeville College, with a strong focus on the Hatfield and McCoy feud
Page 4, Will You Give Him a Chance?
No full textThis is a pamphlet used by Pikeville College for fundraising in the 1920s.A Few Facts About Pikeville College –
Pikeville College was established as a mission school to
mountaineers 32 years ago. It has grown into a junior col-
lege and the last year enrolled almost 400 students.
Located as it is, right in the heart of the Kentucky moun-
tains, it is the center of a circle 75 miles in radius with a
population of over half a million, and represents the only
educational institution in that entire territory that can offer
the people of this region the education of which they are so
sorely in need.
[caption] Normal Class in Training For Rural School Teache
Page 7, Now It Can Be Told
No full textA book of collected essays written by students from Pikeville College, with a strong focus on the Hatfield and McCoy feud.-1-
HATFIELDS AND MCCOYS OF TODAY
by Kay Leslie
Some people think it is still going on--the
Hatfield and McCoy feud. Well, it isn't. They are
law abiding citizens living peacefully together
in the hills of Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia.
The feud which started and ended a long time ago
is just like a ballad. It will never be forgotten.
It will be told generation after generation. It has
many beginnings and endings , just like the saying,
“There are two sides to every story.”
Since it is over, they live side by side; they
go to the same schools; they marry each other.
I walked into a class room just recently, and
there I found a Hatfield and a McCoy sitting side by
side having all the fun in the world. They acted as if
nothing wrong had ever been done. I visited a family
of each who lived next door to each other, and asked
them how they liked their neighbors and if they en-
joyed living next to each other. The reply was that
they had never had better neighbors. In Eastern Kentucky,
you find lots of communities with Hatfield and McCoy
families living side by side peacefully. It may sound
strange to you, but it doesn't to us.
Quite often you will find that they fall in love
and marry--no, they don't fight. They are as happy as
you or I might be.
Let’s visit 1with a McCoy family. There are five of
them: Mother, Dad, two boys, and one girl. The children
of the family are in school, not fussing with the one
who sits beside therm, but very much at ease and friendly
with him. They are a model family who obev all law