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Frank M. Allara Library
No full textAllara Library was constructed using a renovated section of the old Pikeville Methodist Hospital
Rediford Damron
No full textAmong other positions, Rediford Damron served as President of Pikeville College from 1965 to 1967
Page 6, 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 13, 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.- 7-
Shortly after on New Years Eve, the Hatfields, led by
Devil Anse, rode boldly up to Randolph McCoy’s house in
Kentucky and tried to get him to come out. Upon his refusal,
they promptly set fire to his house. This forced him out
of the house and he was shot. Allifair McCoy, upon emerging
from the house, quickly hid one of the smaller children
under a wash tub, thereby saving his life. After several
minutes had passed, she was struck by Cap Hatfield; but
before she died, she told who struck her. Later a large re-
ward was offered for him dead or alive, but no one, to the
best of my knowledge, ever collected that reward.
Some time later, Jim McCoy was going across Stringtown
Mountain (You turn off at the right in Hardy at the school
house on the way to Stringtown Mountain) he suddenly met
five Hatfields. Devil Anse was with them. They told Jim to
get down on his knees and beg for mercy. His reply was,
“Boys, the only way you’ll ever get me down on my knees is
to kill me.” Devil Anse walked up and said, “I admire you
for your courage,” and they let Jim McCoy continue on his
way.
After this, the feud quieted down, but there was still
a bitter grudge between them.
Several years later during late summer, a drought was on
and a creek that divided some McCoy and Hatfield’s property
got low with the Hatfie1ds having a garden on one side and
the McCoys keeping pigs on the other side. Naturally, with
the water low, the pigs started crossing over and eating
the corn in the Hatfield garden. The feud started up again
because every time the Hatfields caught a McCoy pig in their
garden, they killed it. Another cause of the feud’s starting
up again was that booth families were making moonshine and
selling it. They began to compete fo
Page 1, Will You Give Him a Chance?
No full textThis is a pamphlet used by Pikeville College for fundraising in the 1920s
Page 2, Will You Give Him a Chance?
No full textThis is a pamphlet used by Pikeville College for fundraising in the 1920s.His name is John Doe. He was born in the mountain
fastness of Kentucky. The vaulted blue of the sky
was his roof-the sighing of the winds thru the lonesome
pines, his lullaby. Ignorance, jealousy, squalor and
vice were his hopes of patrimony.
But in his veins ran the blood of a Daniel Boone – a
David Crockett, the sterling courage, the indomitable will,
the rare Americanism of those hardy pioneers who seized
the wilderness from itself and reclaimed it for posterity.
John Doe was the eldest of ten children and years before
your son and mine came to long-trouser days he was head-
ing, as best he could, a family made fatherless by a feudist
neighbor. John's philosophy of life was, "get the other
fellow or he will get you".
And so he struggled in his simple way until that day –
That day when life dawned anew for him and back to which
he now dates everything. It was the day when he came to
Pikeville and met a friend. This friend was just about
•to graduate from Pikeville College preparatory to teach-
ing school back in the mountains where "larnin" was so
"powerful scarce".
John couldn't get over the change in his friend's appear-
ance couldn't quite grasp the significance of his language.
But they talked long and seriously, and as an outcome John
found the big desire himself to develop mentally and morally
--to get from " larnin" all or more than it had given his pal.
So John too, went to Pikeville and because he had the right
stuff in him and the very definite desire to make something of
himself, no matter how great the effort or sacrifice, he finally
succeeded in securing the coveted diploma of his dreams
Page 8, 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.-2-
The plans for the children of the family are
not complete yet, but all of them hope to go to
college and get a degree. Their ambitions are just
like those of any other persons. Dreams of a huge
success in the future are in their minds also. When
asked who won the feud between their family and the
Hatfields, they hesitated and then told their story.
When I asked them what it meant to them today, they
said they would never forget it and would tell it to
their grandchildren just as it was told to them. It
was a tradition that would be handed down generation
after generation, but as for today--it was an affair
of the past.
The reaction you got when you ask them questions
about the feud is most interesting. Right off, they
want to say, “We won it," but after a few minutes,
they begin to tell their story.
THE MEANING OF THE FEUD--PRESENT AND PAST
by Emma Ruth Cornette
The people of Eastern Kentucky have for some time
been portrayed as a continuation of the Hatfield-
McCoy feud. I have known and gone to school with several
Hatfields and McCoys. Let me give you a living example
of the typical people in this section.
On Pond Creek in Pike County (where part of the
feud took place) there is one of the finest high schools
in Eastern Kentucky. The children of this school are
good students with a wonderful record in basketball and
football. They are particularly noted at Pikeville
College for their outstanding work in speech and in
music, both vocal and instrumental. It is true that
the people in Eastern Kentucky like string music. This
is not a degrading quality, but an Anglo-Saxon heritage