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Newspaper
Shepherd Argus
Location
Shepherd, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1964
Page
4
A minor debt over a fiddle ignited a feud that led to a pistol and knife clash at a Tug River election ground in Kentucky. The Hatfields and McCoys, including Elias and Ellison Hatfield and Tolbert, Randall, and Agrippa McCoy, escalated into violence ending with Ellison's wounding and the McCoy brothers' arrest and murder not long after, deepening a thirty year feud.
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Hatfield faction abducted prisoners to the West Virginia side. Devil Anse Hatfield, later a Confederate Army captain, earned his name from Yankee soldiers. Ellison Hatfield, his brother, was killed along with the McCoys after a bitter feud. Bodies found lashed to pawpaw trees on the Kentucky bank. The conflict, sparked by a fifty cent fiddle debt, became legendary in U.S. history.
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