Now that's something I've never heard before. We moved to Catlettsburg Kentucky when I was still a kid. My grandma didn't mention about Harman being in C-Bug. Thanks for that information gentleman. I will pass that along to my family. I'm not even halfway through your story and already learning more about my kin. Thank you.
I'm born and raised in Eastern Kentucky. I grew up in and around pike county. Went swimming in the river many times. My grandmother was kin to the McCoy family. All my life I was told stories about the feud. Like I told Grandma nobody really knows everything that happened cause their all gone. But what we do know that Old man Randall I think lost more than anyone in that feud. Yes 3 of his son's killed a Hatfield. They should have been taken to jail not tied to trees and murdered themselves. I've always heard that they shot Bud with a shotgun that took his head off. And left them there. On new years morning The McCoy family was attacked by so many Hatfield's. 2 more of Randall's kids get killed and his wife was beat so bad she was never the same. Rosanna's baby dies with her not far behind. I always wondered what Randall could have done to have so much pain in his life. But even that wasn't enough for this man. After losing everyone and everything in his life he burns to death. Nobody deserves that much pain. Both families lost so much and for what? When I go to other places and folk's hear I'm from Kentucky they always ask about the feud and what I know. Everyone has heard about this feud one way or another. I still walk the trail from time to time and hope they all have finally found peace.
We’re glad you liked the story. We tried to get as many versions of the story in there that we could and, yes, Randall was the one who suffered the most heartache and loss in the feud.
Absolutely love this channel. Respectful, insightful, and colorful stories about the region that we call home. Super well done. Love every single video I've watched.
Absolutely love this. I became infatuated with this feud when the series first came out on history channel how ever many years ago. The series is now on Netflix but seems to have deleted numerous important scenes unfortunately
Thanx for sharing the variations of the stories on each character, place, or story. And the When, where, Why, & How of each one. I've read every book and poured over the photos, then i discovered Google. My idea: Perspective in that time & place, to see how the locals societies functioned, or not.
Admire your work & love your channel, thank you , for some one who wants to know the truth & feel bad for all the fire the media put in to this painful stories, I agree there are so many sides in to the story . Wish you all well . Thanks
New subscriber here from West Tennessee fellers. Steve, I would have put my hand on a bible, and sworn under oath, that you were Eddie Stubbs, the Grand Ole Opry announcer! Until I saw another video and yall were on camera. You sound EXACTLY like Eddie, Bud! Lol. Anybody ever told you that you sound like him? 😄
@@StoriesofAppalachia our family name were originally called De Heathfelda I'm from the Yorkshire Hatfields we descend from one Sir William De Heathfelda (Hatfield) who fought for William the conquerer at Hastings Our family motto is Paulatim by little and little the Hatfields of west Virginia and Kentucky Came from here in North Riding of Yorkshire
My Granny Sally Jude had a brother named Bud and I been wondering if he wasn't named after Bud McCoy that was one of the 3 murdered Boy's 😢 I was told he was only 15yrs old and innocent 😢 All so sad 😞
@@lisalking2476For what it's worth , Bud was actually 18 when he was shot and killed with Tolbert and Pharmer by the Hatfields in retaliation for killing Ellison Hatfield.
In regards to the pigs, it was a matter of honor, good name , & standing I the community. To be called a liar and a pig thief was besmirching one's honor, and that was well worth feuding over!!
The movie Deliverance sets the tone in a lot of brain dead minds in the North still. Michigan here. I knew a gal from the South with an sweet southern accent who was bartending at a place in Grand Rapids. 2 other gals as customers were making fun of the accent, and brought up that movie name as an insult. This media, hollywood, politics and even education now,---has us in pens "groups" full of us roosters, ready to bet on a national cock fight. I would rather respect each other individual liberty, and be civil.
My Grandmother was Sara Delphia Hansford. Her Father was a doctor in Gorman County, West Virginia. He was born in 1828 and was murdered by my Great Aunt Ida's then boyfriend in 1901. Great Aunt Ida married Henry Bradford (as in Mayflower), who was a member of the State Department, pretty high up. My Grandmother (born in 1890) was briefly a teacher, then went to College in southern Ohio on her way to Chicago, where she finished her degree. All of Grandmother's siblings were high achievers who did much to grow this nation. So much for West Virginians being dumb. BTW, Buddy Ebsen refused to play Jed as a dumb character. He insisted that the character be written to be intelligent. "Dumb Doras" and "Dumb Donalds", though, were popular at the time, so Jethro Clampett was born. Remember, though, that "The Beverly Hillbillies" was about a poor country family suddenly becoming rich and moving to the Big City. I would imagine that going from no electricity, plumbing or running water to the big city would be jarring if done all at once. Also, changing your cultural attitudes suddenly might be difficult for an older person. In a lot of ways, I thought Petticoat Junction was the best of the three shows because it accurately portrayed a simple lifestyle in an otherwise real, complex world.
It probably like all disputes has a truth somewhere in the middle like they were pissed off over the temperature and the hog was all the excuse they needed to start something
My Mother being a McCoy, from that Bloodline, I call assure you that each side of the Families have a different story, My Grandfather had a story about the Pig, but it has to do with sending a young McCoy Girl out to find some pigs that got out of the Pin, and when she was out in the Woods looking for them when 3 Hatfields raped her, all hell broke out from there... My Mother left me our Leather Bond, McCoy Family Crest Family Genealogy Book... My Grandfather was born in the 1800s, and his name was the last McCoy entered in the book.... Not all McCoy's are from the Feuding Bloodline... 😉👍👍
related to both sides oddly enough, Joseph Hatfield is my great etc grandpa, and it all boils down to that damn pig lol. Never heard about any rapes but it was literally war between the families. Pot shots being taken against Hatfield's men, ladies and children. Just tough and bad times back then.
This is a awesome podcast thank you and im a descendant of perry cline my grandma nida cline i grew up in Iowa and never got to visit my family thier but i love hearing history about my family although after the history channel movie i talked to my grandma and ahe told me that the story of Perry starting it was not how it happened and while my family did file a lawsuit that is about as big as our family got involved directly and perry cline wasn't even a lawyer till after the feud the family lore goes that he became a lawyer because of him loosing the trial and timber rights of our land
Thank you! The feud is a very complicated bit of history, what with many versions of parts of it being told. It’s most definitely the most well known of the stories of Appalachia!
I want to see somebody do American "Rags To Riches" stories, (no matter what race or sex, to show we all did), and only the ones with proper moral values for business and happy endings, (unless the state ripped them off. Which has happened more often?), starting from the dawn of electricity about 120 or so years ago. We keep saying that the USA is great, at least with us older generations who did agree. It is time we show our population that it was our individual freedom and our free enterprise system that allowed us to be great. Lets show the people who moved to the USA for opportunity, (which means free enterprise participation), and built this place with their work and their brain, trading money instead of blood in 'OUR" free enterprise system. Where are those Hero's!!??? We need to see those HERO's today. Doug in Michigan.
"Moral values for business" means no government help, (Vanderbilt rail road for example), and no dirty play (a crime, that is called) against your competition. Moral business values. Same as ours.
I am a descendant of the same hatfield lineage and I can tell you that all the hatfield men are tall broad shouldered and not to be trifled with. Great video. Thanks
I've watched so many things on this feud it's crazy. But I love history and it's interesting. Everyone that I have watched though seems to agree on one thing. And that is the Hatfield's seem like a bunch of scumbags. Back then anyway.
Today the methamphetamine cooks users and addicts ain't helping much to better peoples idea of Appalachians. That garbage has become a scourge and ought be eradicated with extreme prejudice.
You can avoid this by forwarding movies to the last minute and let it play out until the replay button comes up. Hit replay and it'll play without the commercials.
This goes on your BEST OF lists.
Now that's something I've never heard before. We moved to Catlettsburg Kentucky when I was still a kid. My grandma didn't mention about Harman being in C-Bug. Thanks for that information gentleman. I will pass that along to my family. I'm not even halfway through your story and already learning more about my kin. Thank you.
My great grandmother was a McCoy, my grandmother bless her soul loved to tell about her mothers past
I'm born and raised in Eastern Kentucky. I grew up in and around pike county. Went swimming in the river many times. My grandmother was kin to the McCoy family. All my life I was told stories about the feud. Like I told Grandma nobody really knows everything that happened cause their all gone. But what we do know that Old man Randall I think lost more than anyone in that feud. Yes 3 of his son's killed a Hatfield. They should have been taken to jail not tied to trees and murdered themselves. I've always heard that they shot Bud with a shotgun that took his head off. And left them there. On new years morning The McCoy family was attacked by so many Hatfield's. 2 more of Randall's kids get killed and his wife was beat so bad she was never the same. Rosanna's baby dies with her not far behind. I always wondered what Randall could have done to have so much pain in his life. But even that wasn't enough for this man. After losing everyone and everything in his life he burns to death. Nobody deserves that much pain. Both families lost so much and for what? When I go to other places and folk's hear I'm from Kentucky they always ask about the feud and what I know. Everyone has heard about this feud one way or another. I still walk the trail from time to time and hope they all have finally found peace.
We’re glad you liked the story. We tried to get as many versions of the story in there that we could and, yes, Randall was the one who suffered the most heartache and loss in the feud.
Absolutely love this channel. Respectful, insightful, and colorful stories about the region that we call home. Super well done. Love every single video I've watched.
Thank you very much!
Absolutely love this. I became infatuated with this feud when the series first came out on history channel how ever many years ago. The series is now on Netflix but seems to have deleted numerous important scenes unfortunately
I love your channel...informative and entertaining.
Thank you!
Thanx for sharing the variations of the stories on each character, place, or story. And the When, where, Why, & How of each one. I've read every book and poured over the photos, then i discovered Google. My idea: Perspective in that time & place, to see how the locals societies functioned, or not.
Thanks you for watching/listening!
Admire your work & love your channel, thank you , for some one who wants to know the truth & feel bad for all the fire the media put in to this painful stories, I agree there are so many sides in to the story . Wish you all well . Thanks
Thank you for the kind words, and thanks for listening to our stories...
New subscriber here from West Tennessee fellers. Steve, I would have put my hand on a bible, and sworn under oath, that you were Eddie Stubbs, the Grand Ole Opry announcer! Until I saw another video and yall were on camera. You sound EXACTLY like Eddie, Bud! Lol. Anybody ever told you that you sound like him? 😄
Well, no I haven't ever heard that, but I take that as a great compliment....thank you a bunch!
@@StoriesofAppalachia feet of fines nort riding of Yorkshire Godbless
@@StoriesofAppalachia ar You Hatfield ?
@@StoriesofAppalachia our family name were originally called De Heathfelda I'm from the Yorkshire Hatfields we descend from one Sir William De Heathfelda (Hatfield) who fought for William the conquerer at Hastings Our family motto is Paulatim by little and little the Hatfields of west Virginia and Kentucky Came from here in North Riding of Yorkshire
@@StoriesofAppalachia I'm Jonathan Robert Hatfield
I was always told that Bud was the one who got his head blown off. I've heard that all my life by more than one person.
My Granny Sally Jude had a brother named Bud and I been wondering if he wasn't named after Bud McCoy that was one of the 3 murdered Boy's 😢 I was told he was only 15yrs old and innocent 😢 All so sad 😞
@@lisalking2476For what it's worth , Bud was actually 18 when he was shot and killed with Tolbert and Pharmer by the Hatfields in retaliation for killing Ellison Hatfield.
How do we know? I too have always heard 15 and innocent
I just recently found me Collings, Burch, and Records family married into the Hatfield Family.
In regards to the pigs, it was a matter of honor, good name , & standing I the community. To be called a liar and a pig thief was besmirching one's honor, and that was well worth feuding over!!
The movie Deliverance sets the tone in a lot of brain dead minds in the North still. Michigan here. I knew a gal from the South with an sweet southern accent who was bartending at a place in Grand Rapids. 2 other gals as customers were making fun of the accent, and brought up that movie name as an insult. This media, hollywood, politics and even education now,---has us in pens "groups" full of us roosters, ready to bet on a national cock fight. I would rather respect each other individual liberty, and be civil.
Very well put and so true.
With her being from down here, its a thousand wonders she didnt drag them outside by the hair of their heads, and work them over! Haha
True.
My father was related to the Hatfields.
Then we're distant cousins Ho I'm Jonathan Hatfield
Was told my mothers side is related to the Hatfields
My Grandmother was Sara Delphia Hansford. Her Father was a doctor in Gorman County, West Virginia. He was born in 1828 and was murdered by my Great Aunt Ida's then boyfriend in 1901. Great Aunt Ida married Henry Bradford (as in Mayflower), who was a member of the State Department, pretty high up. My Grandmother (born in 1890) was briefly a teacher, then went to College in southern Ohio on her way to Chicago, where she finished her degree. All of Grandmother's siblings were high achievers who did much to grow this nation. So much for West Virginians being dumb. BTW, Buddy Ebsen refused to play Jed as a dumb character. He insisted that the character be written to be intelligent. "Dumb Doras" and "Dumb Donalds", though, were popular at the time, so Jethro Clampett was born. Remember, though, that "The Beverly Hillbillies" was about a poor country family suddenly becoming rich and moving to the Big City. I would imagine that going from no electricity, plumbing or running water to the big city would be jarring if done all at once. Also, changing your cultural attitudes suddenly might be difficult for an older person. In a lot of ways, I thought Petticoat Junction was the best of the three shows because it accurately portrayed a simple lifestyle in an otherwise real, complex world.
Tell me this where in the world is Gorman County, West Virginia there is no such place lol.
It probably like all disputes has a truth somewhere in the middle like they were pissed off over the temperature and the hog was all the excuse they needed to start something
I come from
THE WRIGHT AND TEMPLETON GANG
My Mother being a McCoy, from that Bloodline, I call assure you that each side of the Families have a different story, My Grandfather had a story about the Pig, but it has to do with sending a young McCoy Girl out to find some pigs that got out of the Pin, and when she was out in the Woods looking for them when 3 Hatfields raped her, all hell broke out from there... My Mother left me our Leather Bond, McCoy Family Crest Family Genealogy Book... My Grandfather was born in the 1800s, and his name was the last McCoy entered in the book....
Not all McCoy's are from the Feuding Bloodline... 😉👍👍
fussin and a feudin I'm Hatfield You're Mc Coy 👉🏼✝️👈🏼🕊
related to both sides oddly enough, Joseph Hatfield is my great etc grandpa, and it all boils down to that damn pig lol. Never heard about any rapes but it was literally war between the families. Pot shots being taken against Hatfield's men, ladies and children. Just tough and bad times back then.
@@andy-sp6os It was hard and sad times back then, people really don't understand what hard times are, nowadays...
Stay Safe Cuz 😅😉✌
Some moved away to avoid the fude 😢 probably saved there life's
This is a awesome podcast thank you and im a descendant of perry cline my grandma nida cline i grew up in Iowa and never got to visit my family thier but i love hearing history about my family although after the history channel movie i talked to my grandma and ahe told me that the story of Perry starting it was not how it happened and while my family did file a lawsuit that is about as big as our family got involved directly and perry cline wasn't even a lawyer till after the feud the family lore goes that he became a lawyer because of him loosing the trial and timber rights of our land
Thank you! The feud is a very complicated bit of history, what with many versions of parts of it being told. It’s most definitely the most well known of the stories of Appalachia!
You should do the Molly MaGuire's from the coalfields of pa and the massacre of the Macalester family
I want to see somebody do American "Rags To Riches" stories, (no matter what race or sex, to show we all did), and only the ones with proper moral values for business and happy endings, (unless the state ripped them off. Which has happened more often?), starting from the dawn of electricity about 120 or so years ago. We keep saying that the USA is great, at least with us older generations who did agree. It is time we show our population that it was our individual freedom and our free enterprise system that allowed us to be great. Lets show the people who moved to the USA for opportunity, (which means free enterprise participation), and built this place with their work and their brain, trading money instead of blood in 'OUR" free enterprise system. Where are those Hero's!!??? We need to see those HERO's today.
Doug in Michigan.
"Moral values for business" means no government help, (Vanderbilt rail road for example), and no dirty play (a crime, that is called) against your competition.
Moral business values. Same as ours.
I'm Jonathan Hatfield
Hello Jonathan Hatfield
I am a descendant of the same hatfield lineage and I can tell you that all the hatfield men are tall broad shouldered and not to be trifled with. Great video. Thanks
I will not argue with you...thanks!
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I've watched so many things on this feud it's crazy. But I love history and it's interesting. Everyone that I have watched though seems to agree on one thing. And that is the Hatfield's seem like a bunch of scumbags. Back then anyway.
Today the methamphetamine cooks users and addicts ain't helping much to better peoples idea of Appalachians. That garbage has become a scourge and ought be eradicated with extreme prejudice.
The three H's...Hicks, Hayseeds and Hillbillies.
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To many comercials to enjoy. TH-cam sucks!
You can avoid this by forwarding movies to the last minute and let it play out until the replay button comes up. Hit replay and it'll play without the commercials.
@@Nrvsmum73 I did that to no avail.
Too many fuckin ads...
I m related to the mccoys.and if they call you devil Anse there's a reason for