“Preacher Anse” Hatfield. Unsurprisingly, the Hatfield clan won the day. The case hinged on the witness testimony of a man named Bill Staton, a McCoy relative who was married to a ...

At the center of the of the conflict were the two family patriarchs: William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield and Randolph McCoy. As legend has it, two neighboring families in the backwoods of ...