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.
Booth was tracked down by Union soldiers and was shot and killed by Sergeant Boston Corbett on April 26, 1865. Booth apparently believed that killing Lincoln would radically change U.S. policy toward the South. Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward were targeted in the same plot.