ItsAmity Sharing Information for Amity Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania and the surrounding areas including the counties of Berks, Chester, and Montgomery, PA.
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.
Interestingly, one of the more persistent. myths that has grown out of these. allegations is the one that John Wilkes. Booth did not die in Garrett'sbarn, but. that someone else was killed in his place. It has been charged that government. officials were aware that Booth was alive.