: a small religious house dependent on a monastery or convent. : a one-room dwelling occupied by a solitary person (as a hermit) : a single room (as in a convent or prison) usually for one person.
Making the world better, one answer at a time. The Hatefield-McCoy feud began with the murder of Asa Harmon McCoy on January 7, 1865. Jim Vance, the uncle of Devil Anse Hatfield, despised Harmon because he had joined the Union Army during the American Civil War.
McCoy Pottery Company - Its History. In 1910, Nelson McCoy established the Nelson McCoy Sanitary Stoneware Co. in Roseville, OH. This area of Ohio provided a good source for natural clay and the McCoy firm used this clay to manufacture decorative stoneware.