: 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.
Joseph G. McCoy Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest (1874) In 1867 Joseph McCoy organized cattle drives out of Texas to Abilene, Kansas.