The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-31

hard note 10 her voice There's aIlus ben trouble
with him. Men folks IS hard TO get on with"
Weren't YOU afraid all alone muchT' for 1t
was plain there had been no chlvalry In her life.
She held her head high. Law, Amt notbln
10 he afcarln cf folks dies they dies, and that's all
there IS on H. plenty Of folks too with nil this
trouble of an Of they goes why they goes you
can't help IL nohow.
And with this piece OF philosophy she settled back
into a stond silence which gave one again the I'M
preston Of years spent waiting II may have been
those years OF waiting and watching. and never
knowing which gave 10 the mountain women a cour-
age their men have not The men hght from cover
and run they choose 10 meet the enemy face 10
face. But the women have braved any danger TO
help their folks" In thc history OF the Hatfield
Mccoy reud there are plenty Of women who went to
fight and went unarmed
Early IN the history OF the fcud there appears the
mother Of Randolph Mccoy. thirteen years old. who
was captured by the BatGelds- The boy was held
prisoner In lonely cabin, and yon may believe well
guarded. But bis mother went In the middle OF the
night tramping for miles the mountains 10 reach
her hoy. her knees she begged Bad Anse Hatfield.
whose name was well earned. to Kill her and spare
boy. II rather SpOils the story Of the feuds 10
know that he literally kicked her out of the cabin
door on another occasion some brave Mccoy women
notified their clnnSmen that trouble was ahead. And
result the trouble came 10 them. for the Hat
fields rode up their cnJn in the night. killed their
men. dragged them out of doors and horscwhpped
them until their ribs were broken
And auuther time when the cabin OF "Old RaudI'
Mccoy was surrounded by the enemy iu the night. 1t
Mrs Mccoy who opened the cabin door and
walked out Into the mob 10 reach her girls who had
been sleeping In Il cabin at hand. One Of tho
Hanelds. thinking her worth shooting struck her
with the butt OF his gun. She fell to the ground,
badly hurt hut dragged herself along on hands and
knees. st bent saving her children. and Cnp Hat
field. one Of his tribe kicked her and killed her.
That all right TO their minds for what
woman but 10 do rs man told her? In the Hargis
CocBrlll feud there was woman named Mrs. George
Johnson. Mrs. johnson, without gun any killing
OF the enemy her part, fought through the years
while her uncle brother and son were shot and her
husband driven into exile Her brother
afraid o appear in the street because lie knew
Sins were following him And FOR years he walked
with his sister between him and the possible enemy
Once when he going to the railway station n ss-
ter walked on each side Of him and he carried his
baby I'm his arms. II murder had been attempted one
other than himself must have been sacrificed
1t never seemed Ia occur TO the that there was
anything uumanly I'm that sort of thing Cap Hatfield
would treat his woman we'll as he would treat his
horse and consider himself kind enough in so doing
His woman Is undoubtedly brnvcr than he. She may
not shoot straight but she has fought and she does
not fear the open.