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- Hatfield and McCoy
The Real McCoys
Starting with my McCoy and Hatfield side of the family tree:
John McCoy was born 1801 in East, TN according to information on his daughter, Louisa’s, death certificate. He was the son of William ‘Billie’ McCoy and Jane Richardson.
Nancy Hatfield became his wife on Feb. 21, 1828 in Wayne County, Kentucky, the ceremony performed by David Duncan. Nancy was the youngest daughter of Elias Ale Hatfield and Milly Gibson, granddaughter of Joseph Hatfield and Mrs. Elizabeth (Deliz) Smith, nee Vance, great granddaughter of George Goff (Abe) Hatfield and Margrett Winans.
John and Nancy moved from Kentucky to Campbell Co. TN about 1836, then to Van Buren County, TN. That is where they lost everything in the Civil War. There are conflicting records about the state of birth for John McCoy. We are not sure if it is Kentucky or Tennessee. These Hatfields’ and McCoys were not the raucous, gun-toting people characterized in song and fiction. John and Nancy lived very pious lives...mostly like Quakers. They would prepare on Saturday enough food to do over Sunday and their home was so huge they had the church services in their home. They fixed food for a crowd for in those days before the Civil War they had, it seemed to today’s standards, a good living. In fact, full handed, as all their children had his own saddle horse. Of course, that was their way of travel then.
For more information about the Hatfield/McCoy feud, visit The Real McCoy's website. They have information about the origins of the feud, some ancestry information and much more.
To John and Nancy were born 15 children…13 lived to be grown.
2 died young. They were girls. Sarena and Permealie
I may not get them as they come. The 13 were, first the sons: Joe, John L, Martin, George, William, Ewell (pronounced UL), Marion, Andy, Nick. The girls were Louisa (my grandmother), Nancy, Millie, and Bettie. At one time I had 6 great uncles, and another one by marriage, fighting in the Civil War. Three never lived to return home. One, Uncle George, was reported killed in the Murfreesboro (Tennessee) battle and supposed to be buried in the national cemetery there.
Lynn Schiller’s official records show that John and Nancy had the following children:
Andrew E. McCoy born Feb. 24, 1829 KY, died Civil War
Spouse Mary Gibson born 1833 TN married July 16, 1854 in Campbell Co. TN.
Milly Ann McCoy born March 23, 1830 KY died May 27, 1902 Barren Co. KY
Spouse Reddin Smith born July 28, 1827 Campbell Co TN. Married August 20, 1848 Campbell Co. TN, died January 28, 1900 both buried at Poplar Springs Church Cemetery, Barren Co. KY.
William R. McCoy born June 03, 1831 KY, died Sept, 23, 1898 Barren Co. KY.
Spouse Martha Hurtt born Feb. 04, 1834 TN, Married Nov. 07, 1856 Scott Co. TN, by James Lay, died May 1897 Barren Co. KY
George W. McCoy born Jan. 28, 1833 KY. Died in the Civil War
Spouse Martha born c1840 TN married c1857
Francis Marion McCoy born April 5, 1835 KY, died Dec. 31, 1918 Pilot Pt. Denton Co. TX.
Elizabeth ‘Bettie’ McCoy born October 19, 1836 Campbell Co. TN. Listed as single, living with sister Nancy Swindle in 1900 White Co. TN. Died after 1916 White Co. TN.
Joseph McCoy born Nov. 13, 1837 Campbell Co. TN, died May 9, 1906 Barren Co. KY.
1st Spouse Selina (Salina/Celina) Adkins born Mar. 12, 1843 Campbell Co. TN, Married July 5, 1862 Campbell Co. TN by C. Huckaby, Justice of Peace, died Oct. 30, 1888 Barren Co. KY. Both buried at Poplar Springs Church Cemetery, Barren Co. KY. Joseph lost four family members in 1888 due to typhoid fever.
2nd Spouse Mrs. Lucy Francis Wilson, nee Wade, born May 23, 1853 Barren Co. KY. Married c1889-1892. Died Apr. 11, 1937 Barren Co. KY. Buried at Wells Cemetery Barren Co. KY.
John L. McCoy born Feb. 20, 1840 Campbell Co. TN. Married Mar. 2, 1869. Died Aug. 10, 1918 Van Buren Co. TN.
Spouse Zarra Ware T. Gibson (Zara T. on tombstone) born Jan. 19, 1850 Scott Co. TN, died Feb. 02, 1928 Van Buren Co. TN. Both buried at Laurel Creek Baptist Church Cemetery.
{Recent information shows Zerraware T. Gibson and family moved to Jackson County NC during/after Civil War. Zerra and John L. McCoy were married there 3/2/1869 by L.G. Ward, JP. She was the daughter of Henry & Elizabeth Gipson/Gibson. They had a son, Martin Wilburn McCoy, who married Maggie L. Templeton. Maggie's sister, Ida, kept a family notebook and recorded Maggie's date of birth as February 7, 1887.}
Martin T. McCoy born July 26, 1842 Campbell Co TN., died 1899 Van Buren Co. TN.
1st Spouse Eva Ann Grissom born 1855 Van Buren Co TN, married Nov. 26, 1870, Van Buren. Died 1877 TN. Their children were:
James William (Willis) McCoy spouse Mary Alice Grissom
Nancy Isabelle McCoy spouse Sam Hitchcock
2nd Spouse Clarinda Grissom Page born 1857 Van Buren Co. TN, died 1906 Van Buren Co. TN. All three buried at Long Cemetery, Van Buren Co. TN. Their children were:
Philip Ramsey ‘Keener’ McCoy 1st wife Rutha Lillian Grissom, 2nd Lyda Pearl Sparkman
Martha Ella ‘ELLIE’ McCoy married Joseph E. Hale
Marcus M. McCoy single
Nancy McCoy born May 27, 1844 Campbell Co. TN, died 1929 White Co. TN.
Spouse Samuel Clark Swindle born Jan 1844 TN, married August 09, 1868 in White Co. TN. Died 1905 White Co. TN. Both buried at Mt. Pisgah Cemetery, White Co. TN
{The McMinnville TN New Era Newspaper dated Thursday, May 28, 1903 states that "Miss Nannie Swindle of Yateston, White County died Thursday, May 14, of a fever, and on Saturday following her father, S.C. Swindle, paid the same debt." More research is being done to see if this is the daughter of our Nancy (McCoy) and Samuel Clark Swindle.}
Louisa McCoy born February 28, 1846 Campbell Co. TN. (in 1850 census they lived in the seventeenth subdivision, by 1860 it was called Jacksboro) died February 16, 1915 Civil District #6, Creek, TN (Death Certificate #483, informant Will McCoy of Creek, TN: father listed as John McCoy, mother unknown. E. T. Mooneyham, M. D. attended)
Spouse John Rhodes Grissom … see Grissom lineage
Sarena McCoy born July 6,1848 and died young. Date unknown.
Euel W. McCoy born Jan. 1, 1850 Campbell Co. TN, died Dec. 26, 1910, buried in an unmarked grave Laurel Creek Cemetery. Van Buren Co. TN. (1910 Carlisle County KY census lists him as Ewel W. McCoy, however cemetery list of Laurel Creek spells it "Euel".)
{Like John Toliver Grissom, Ewel was a "singing instructor". Ewel and Nancy lived for some years in Bardwell KY. They separated prior to his death and he returned to Van Buren. Recent findings show a daughter of Ewel and Nancy, Ada (Adra/Adrah) McCoy, married Calvin Parker in Warren County TN on March 24, 1891.}
Spouse Nancy Halteman on Dec. 30, 1869
Permealie McCoy born February 2, 1852. Died at a young age.
Nicholas P. McCoy born Aug. 28, 1855 Campbell Co. TN, died May 18, 1926 Barren Co. KY. Moved to KY with brother Joseph about 1885
Spouse Ida McCormick born Oct. 11, 1857 TN. Married about 1877, died March 28, 1934 Barren Co. KY. Both buried at Pickett Cemetery Barren Co. KY
An anecdote from Aunt Edith:
When the Yankees came through the farm of my Great-grandfather McCoy, they run them off their big farm. All they got away with was only what they could throw into a farm wagon. They had to leave their beautiful home.. all their stock and crops.. herds of sheep, all those fine horses. There was one or more mother hogs with a bed full of baby pigs. In that day, they really lived off the land. They had to weave their own materials to make their clothing and after the under-garments were made - the material was similar to unbleached muslin, they would boil them out to bleach them, and would hang them to dry in a large empty room of the house. The "Bush Wackers" or highway thieves they would call them today - they would break in and steal the garments. They had to bury their meat or any special food. They would put them under the floor buried in dirt. Grandmother Louisa always did say they steal them poor as poor could be. Think how a wealthy family managed to live on practically nothing after being full handed. She always felt like the entire family of children was cheated out of their birthright. It sure was a blow they never got over. She died in her late 60’s. Granddad, too. Kathleen was a small child when they died..the only great-grandchild they had. I was very fond of them being the first grandchild to them. I stayed with them, through one term of school in that area. We were all a close knit family for my Dad and Mother lived in a house built for them on Granddad’s farm. I was born there. The little house was always called "Johnnie’s House"
Nancy Hatfield McCoy died December 15, 1891 and John McCoy died August 4, 1874, both in Van Buren Co. TN. They are buried in OLD Laurel Creek Cemetery, Van Buren Co. TN.
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mdonnamrtn added this on 7 Sep 2011
Teresa Hunt originally submitted this to Hunt Mayo Hopkins Gray and more branches on 21 Jan 2010
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