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A section of the floodwall along the Tug Fork in Matawan, West Virginia, constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, depicts the HatfieldâMcCoy feud. 1865: Former Union soldier Asa Harman McCoy killed January 7, 1865, probably by the Logan Wildcats led by Jim Vance. 1878: Bill Staton (nephew of Randolph McCoy â not shown on family tree) was killed in 1878 as revenge for testifying on behalf of Floyd Hatfield in his trial for stealing a McCoy hog.
Frightened, Harmon hid in a nearby cave, but the Wildcats discovered Harmon and shot him fatally. Further violence occurred between the two families throughout the following years. 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.