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James Monroe “Jim” Vance
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James Monroe “Jim” Vance VVETERAN
BIRTH 1832 Virginia, USA
DEATH 8 Jan 1888 (aged 55-56)
Logan County, West Virginia, USA
BURIAL James Vance Family Cemetery
Thacker, Mingo County, West Virginia, USA
MEMORIAL ID130035907 ·
PHOTOS 8
FLOWERS 22

Added by Contributor: Terry Vance (50638863) 30OCT2023
James Vance was never a part of the feud until he was killed trying to keep Cap safe from an illegal posse from KY that had crossed into WV. William Ferrell was forced from his home by the posse to lead them to the area where Cap was hiding. On the way there they met James and Cap coming down the mountain. The posse opened fire killing James and wounding Cap. Cap was wounded and ran. James was lied on at caps trial. He was dead and could defend himself so the tales began.
He didn't kill Asa McCoy. He was in Narrows , VA with the 34th Batt. Va Cav with Col Vincent Witcher. James was also a businessman employing 70 people. He was a constable for Perry Cline in Pike County Ky. A magistrate, and a soldier during the Civil War and a POW at the end of it. His grandfather Abner killed a Horton man because Horton threatened him in court a few day earlier. Abner never ran to WV. There was no state of WV. He spent the whole time in jail and hanged in Abington, VA. James never listed in any indictments for any of the fued. All kinds of records to prove he had nothing to do with it.
Added by Contributor: Terry Vance (50638863) 30OCT2023
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Added by Contributor: Frank A.Westgate (46807399) added before 2022
Feudist James ''Jim'' Vance, born about 1832, was the grandson of Tug Valley pioneer Abner Vance and the uncle of William Anderson ''Devil Anse'' Hatfield. Jim Vance was a leading protagonist in the Hatfield-McCoy Feud. Described by historian Otis K. Rice as a ruthless, vindictive man, he helped to keep the conflict going and took part in some of its bloodiest episodes. Vance, like Devil Anse a Confederate guerrilla during the Civil War, was suspected in the 1865 murder of Union veteran Harmon McCoy, one of the feud's precipitating events.
Vance led the 1888 New Year's Day arson attack on the McCoy family cabin, resulting in the death of Calvin and Alifair McCoy, the grown children of patriarch Randall McCoy. In this incident, Vance bludgeoned Randall's wife Sarah McCoy with a rifle butt as she tried to reach her dying daughter. A week later, on January 8, 1888, Vance and Cap Hatfield, Devil Anse's son, were surprised by a larger party of Kentuckians near Vance's Logan (now Mingo) County home. Vance was wounded in the shootout, then killed in cold blood and at close range by McCoy partisan Frank Phillips.
Added by Contributor: Frank A.Westgate (46807399) added before 2022
Family Members
Parents
Elizabeth Vance Vance
1794-1850

Spouse
Mary "Polly" Collins Vance
1831-1894

Siblings
Phoeba E. Vance Hatfield
1818-1880

Children
Jane "Jennie" Vance Ferrell
1849-1894

John Vance
1850-1894

Elizabeth "Bettie" Vance Nichols
1855-1894

James M. Vance Jr
1857-1892

Amy Vance Flynn
1860-1944

Flowers • 22

Plant Memorial Trees

Left by Andrew Roozeboom on 16 Feb 2024

U are 191 yrs old....REST IN ETERNAL PEACE

Left by Barry Kaiser on 10 Nov 2023

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