If they want a statue, fine and dandy, but let them have it in the cemetery." Tourists frequently visit the Pikeville, Ky., graves of Randolph and Sarah McCoy of the famous feuding family.

No one knows exactly how the feud began. It could have been related to the Civil War, because of a razorback hog, or due to a doomed romance between two young lovers. It may have been all three or ...

Randolph McCoy hides in a pigpen, but son Calvin and daughter Alifair are killed, and wife Sarah is beaten. Within days, bounty hunter Phillips kills Jim Vance and captures nine Hatfields.

Sup where Old Ranel once slept. Chirico’s Ristorante occupies the former McCoy House, where Randolph, wife Sarah (also known as Sally) and their family settled when their Pike County home was ...

In 1878, Randolph McCoy accused Floyd Hatfield of stealing ... a McCoy daughter who was caught in the crossfire. Her mother, Sarah, was badly beaten when she tried to help her dying daughter.

Waiting in ambush outside the home, Randolph McCoy escaped the melee but his wife Sarah was nearly beaten to death and two of ...

The feud was led by patriarchs William “Devil Anse” Hatfield and Randolph McCoy. Here are some key events in the feud: The Civil War: Oddly enough, both William “Devil Anse” Hatfield and ...

The leader of the dig says they have pinpointed the place where Randolph McCoy’s home was set ablaze in the woods of eastern Kentucky during a murderous New Year’s attack by the Hatfield clan.

But Asa Harmon McCoy ran off to join the Union Army. A few nights after he returned home in 1865 he was found murdered in a cave. Hatfields were suspected. In 1873, Floyd Hatfield and Randolph ...

many gathered at the McCoy Well site. Travis Williams carved a statue of Randolph McCoy out of cedar with a chainsaw. Starting with an 8-foot blank log, it took Williams more than one month to ...