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Page 25, 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 26, 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 7, Will You Give Him a Chance?
No full textThis is a pamphlet used by Pikeville College for fundraising in the 1920s.the training department of Pikeville had between 9000 and
10,000 of these mountain youth under their tuition in the
rural schools during the school year closing December
31, 1921.
Pikeville College is now one of the State's accredited
schools for the certification of teachers. These prospective
mountain teachers are coming to the college in greater
numbers than it can care for.
Here is a Christian institution, Christian in its organi-
zation, Christian in its ecclesiastical control, Christian in
the personnel of its teaching force with an opportunity be-
fore it such as is given to but few institutions. But it must
have equipment to meet the demands made upon it.
What 2,000 will endow such a scholarship.
A comparison of these figures with the amount of money
spent by the average boy in college in some of the large
institutions in the North, West and East, conclusively shows
how a small sum of money can work great good for this
wonderful work.
Will you support it
Page 14, 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.- 8-
customers, and then to report each other to the law.
This led to more gun smoke and blood shed. But the
disturbances soon quieted down and they were relatively
peaceful again. But they did not associate with each
other.
Some time later Jonse Hatfield, Devil Anse's
oldest son, and Randolph McCoy's daughter, Rose Anne
began dating. They fell in love and one day, after a
big picnic, Jonse took her home; but Devil Anse would
not permit their marriage. Like any normal young couple,
they began seeing each other on the sly. This started
the feud again. Then Rose Anne became pregnant. The
families decided to make the best of it and stopped
fighting, but the grudge remained.
Devil Anse, before he died, ordered a $3,000 marble
statue of himself carved in Italy and had it hauled
by mules up a mountain side to a spot he picked because
it was “ nice and dry.” The statue now stands on a spot
near Island Creek, which is near Matewan, West Virginia.
Before he died, he had been converted, baptized, and
was living respectably on money from his coal lands.
By the time of his death, he was fairly well off
financially.
His son Joe was at one time a peace officer. Joe is
still living and is liked and respected by the members
of the community.
I am indebted to my grandfather for his assistance
in writing this story. I believe his account to be
true because his grandfather was Bill McCoy, who played
an active part in the feud and was usually referred
to by old timers as Uncle Billy McCoy.
The modern descendants of the Hatfields and McCoys
lead normal lives. This is clearly shown on our Pike
Page 5, Will You Give Him a Chance?
No full textThis is a pamphlet used by Pikeville College for fundraising in the 1920s.It is a well know fact that in no other section of the
United States can one find a larger percentage of native-
born Americans. The people in this territory are largely
of Scotch-Irish ancestry. They have been isolated in these
mountains for a period of 150 years and have not kept pace
with the progress of modern civilization.
But they have maintained their own integrity – their
own faith in God – and now as opportunity for education
presents itself, they are eager for it.
Pikeville College property is now valued at 35,000.
A temporary building, with three class rooms and bar-
racks for boys, was erected in. the late fall and ready for
[caption] Preparatory Classes and Freshman College Clas
Page 3, Will You Give Him a Chance?
No full textThis is a pamphlet used by Pikeville College for fundraising in the 1920s.Today John is a respected citizen-a man with fine moral
fibre, wielding an influence over a large community and with
it all, instilling into the people of that section such rare and
sterling qualities of true
Americanism as you and I
would wish for our boys.
There are many John
Does in Kentucky –
embryo rail splitters
whose life story is still to
be carved in granite, and
who if history repeats
itself may still make their
masterpiece another key-
stone in the arch of our
nation's progress.
Pikeville College is
doing its noblest to take
care of them all – to fill
their needs, but Pikeville
is lacking – lacking in
equipment and lacking
in buildings.
[caption] Today John is a respected citizen
The John Does of Kentucky
are calling to Pikeville
and Pikeville is calling to
YOU. They need our help –
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT.
Will you give some John
Doe his chance
Page 1, 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
BY
The Modern Mountaineers of
Pikeville College
Pikeville, Kentucky Year 195
Page 4, 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.Copyright applied for
April 195
Page 19, 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.-13-
accept money from any lodger.
Occasionally a detective would be sent out to round
up one of the Hatfields on a moonshine charge. The detec-
tive always got to stay all night, but he would always
return without his prisoner.
Devil Anse became a common figure around the Logan
Court House at this period. He would frequently come to
town with some of the clan, but never came unarmed. When
he came into town the people would gather around to listen
to his tall tales of the mountains and he always mixed
his tales with jokes. People rushed to shake hands with
him, but when his back was turned, they talked about him.
Warrants were issued for the arrest of the feudal leader,
but no one could be found to serve and bring him into
court.
In 1892 the newspapers were confident that the feud
was a thing of the past. A major reason for the disapearance
of the feud was the removal of its leaders. Cap Hat-
field had been an invalid for the past six months from a
wound that he received while he was a small boy. Before this,
he had professed faith in the Methodist Church.
In 1893 a circus came to town. One of its famed
actors was Buffalo Bill Cody. Devil Anse, knowing Cody was
a good shot, asked for the pleasure of matching pistols
with him. After the match, Cody said, “I certainly would
hate to engage in a pistol duel with him."
Nothing much followed in the year 1894 except
that people were seeing the unbelievable happen. W. E.
McCoy got a license to marry M. V. Hatfield. Twice in the
newspapers this year was the item that the feud had
begun again, but to the Hatfields and McCoys, this was
news
Page 22, 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.-16
This was the end of the feud . It really ended
in 1888, but until all of the leaders were in their
graves, it was not certainly believed to be over.
On January 8, 1921, Anderson Hatfield (Devil Anse)
died of pneumonia in his bed at the family home at
Island Creek, Logan County. He was in his 86th year.
During the years before World War I, Randolph
McCoy, who had retired from his ferry boat service
had died from the effect of severe burns suffered in
an accident at his home in Pikeville.
Labor troubles and conflicts between law officers
and arrested wrong doers occurred in later years. These
incidents sometimes involved Hatfields and McCoys on
opposite sides of the law or on conflicting sides of
capital and labor. Although the children of the feu-
dists regard the feud as part of the past, the Ameri-
can public is too ready to believe that the feud has
revived if any arrest includes persons bearing the
name of Hatfield or McCoy.
In the late summer of 1928, Tennis Hatfield,
Sheriff of Logan County, the youngest of Devil Anse's
children, invited Jim McCoy to have his picture taken
with him and some friends. The invitation was accepted.
The picture has been published in The Hatfields and
the McCoys by Virgil Carrington Jones, on page 241