The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-18
IROYSDOINGSN A FEUD
O YEARS OLD, BUT WELL
O'- .p1E TO USE a KNIFE

War = ssrio,s Case of Mistaken
Identity v,.S ,u
TIA arrest and imorlsonment Oh AieA"n
he - one of tie Hatfield faction not
DEL u for q murder committed IN the
0ns 19 If the Hatfh}d-McCo feud. recalls
eoui,' - that the cdrne which Messer COM
led was due mistake lii'u -
NJ ,-.in officers il arrestlng boy OF 10
nnou'l - dome b. a boy of 9. The part
10 10 tbis bov-Brdd McCoy-took IN the
VI -Ibos never beef told in print.
ECU -. a. Mccoy was 9 years old at the time
-h;on referenoe is made in this story,
70 W., %---I ho,na wa, on the Blackberry branch
~ PoDd creek, in Pike county, Ken
- II ought TO be SAID no" unat LUIS -
III Ny ~. forotherwise the reader might
true s'ot mo writer. in an attempt to be
tnin h.i el had drawn the long bow;
SeI S.1,tT03 family was large one budl
ING -t,ht brothers and six sisters, all
nsu - -, we're older than he, some OF
o. ~ ing m rried and having children
lAeH - ia as their uncle Budd Besides
qulvo S.,tbars and sisters. Budd had So
lneso o',,sins living In Pike county that he
nlAi3 fr the life Of him remember hall
go -snes. thong he generally saw them
IN f-Cn two to three times year, When
a. on III went to the outdoor church
.a-Ie~ncs which in the mountains OF
4 fTs1furky and West Virginia are called
a'l o. the state line in West Virginia was
49, bat consisted of no end Of broth
~. and sisters. with cousins, also, just like
80 VrC,y,. whose name was Hatfield.
4 ,ndsrs.r Hatfield was the name of the
ta+far of this family, and Randolph Mccoy
4 was the fateeT u Bud!. Between the
a 1TcCoys aid the Hatlields there was
4 5sad,y fend As thew say down there, the two
4 fo,"-Iss we're at war, and that means that
rbaneyer three or four McCoys caught
A Hatfield ou- by himself, they would hide
81 jntue brush on the mountain sldH ana
sboo- him in the back, while the HattieldS
were lust as ANXIOUS u Kill McCoys, and
inst n, cowardly III their way of doing 1t.
In 1SS3, tie year that Budd was years
M old but one man had been actually killed
IA in his WAY His name was Bill S ayton,
n and he was one Of the cousins Of the Hat
81 fields lie ha been Vaylait by two OF
IA RuddlS Cousins and shot to death because he
H hid once thrown a stone at Bud1's father
NJ and knocked him down, and thus openly
arraved himself with the Hatfields. Little
" Bnld knew all about tie feud from tAe time
i began, when his 1ather sued one of the
Hattieds fer the value of two long
Fl nosed hogs and got beaten. He
Fl had listened to his father and
81 older brothers as they discussed the
chances Of meeting the Hatfield, and shoe
3, ing trem and getting shot by them, and the
one thing that worried him most was that
his father said he was too young yet to learn
81 TO shoot and so he must wait an awful
n ii e, it seemed to him-two whole years
81 before he could hope To kill a Hatfield.
"A How eyer, he got a chance at one of them
NJ much quicker than he anticipated, and the
revenge taaen for the blood t1at he helped
& to shed was horrifyIAg.
On TIE first Monday in August. 1882,
M there was a general election in Pike county,
e ard among otGe- candida es before the
III people was an elderly cousin of budd, who
wanted to be justice Of the peaCe. Now it
e happened at this man, whoe name was
II Thomas Stafford, had married one of the
hatfield girls, and SO was considered a
& member OF that family, also He was
discreet man, who bad kept friendly with
Il hotl families, and the consequence was that
act only Budu's father and older brothers
b turned out Oh election day to help MIR. stat
icfd get elected, but the Hatfields, vino
iYed IN West Virginia, aud who could not,
Il Of course vote il Re lucky, also came owe
% the polls to work for the same e ID.
Fl Little Bldd and his next older brother.
Randolph, Jr, a lad of Is, both went TO the
election ground to play with the other
d TOYS sure to be there.
Up there in the mountains the elections
n are held in the open air. This time the
f Judges Of election had table placed on
the grass under big beech tree over on
Il Blackberry creek too the branch Budd lived
on a d the ballot box stood on the table
before them. With the two families there
4 httreS ed III obtaining a common end, what
easier than for discreet man like Stafford
70 get them together, 70 shake ha IDS
Il ana become friends again. 1t was
doie but unfortunately there was no law
against selling whisky there then, and IN
VAer eqces of good feeling the Hatiields
ana McCoys AL drank heartily from the
same Jug OF moonshine whisky. All whisky
y 0ad at such gatherings, but moonshine
- ine worst sort, aud to make matters
s'il verse, when the Jug of clrn whisky
was empty jug full Of mountain-made ap-
PeJack took lis place. The mixture made
the men ugly.
n. alter emptying the jug of applejack
ttaIooO Mccoy, one of Budd's grown.up
noIhers, Waa anxious for more, but had no
iiIIoney TO buy 1t. Then he met one of the
1-aVAeiqs who Tad borrowed 81 10 of him q
ohg while before Talbot asked for the
money, and the next thing ANYBODY noticed
was the two men fiyhting. Immediately
t I,efe was rush made by the men about
.lg pol'S' ana the fighters were separated
s4u arrested by two coast bles.
n DHV TIE hight was destained TO go on. A
+t1oOot Had MT Hatfield, and all the ill
ieellng That had existed between the famil-
n A.
"Llcn Stafford h d brought about was for
cS',eH; Deacon Ellison Hatfield. a brother
g. a. anuerSoh Hatfield, chief of the Hatfield
b's ~ was the one to pick up the fight for
oe SUI Inc deacon, iii spite of his church
80 hau taken too much moonshine
TnnIsky and was anxious for a tipht
Having big pocket knit, he opened-tbe
T T.1ie' ana with many hard words called
a 1@lo ns .McCoy coward for pitching into
NJ me- vi uhe smallest of the Hatfields, The
+oo ~ ne talked the angrier he got. and So
W. VII ulu talbot, until finally the constable
p 20, "aS Holulng Talbot, saw that the dea-
conc %os gong TO cut Talbot anyhow, and so
IN leiuueo TO get out Of the way and LEFT
'DT ~ Two men fight it out.
Snra,ee. Instant he was released, Talbot
mos mos 9ack two steps, and with a Quick
bIada new nv "a pocket knife and opened the
inmr1aa ne both men stopped a bit and
Laar}PSs i, Tor each other with murderi their
ahon+ .. nile the ri gof eager mountaineers
strovs 't tS aged to and fro as each O q
who ~ 20 see every move made. Tabor
his tnif as me younger and quicker. drove
= fataI iie INTO the deacOu's left side missing
knit t.a' @ound only because the point OF The
dea [1 s3tr4ck rib and glanced off The
sIse E?1S knife descended on Talbot's head
cjes r'is through the soft black hat and
the scs us rs the top of his head, laying pen