Cache tribute to America's most recognized "Family Feud" Randolph McCoy
Randolph "Randall" or "Ole Ran'l" McCoy (October 30, 1825 – March 28, 1914) was an American pioneer and the patriarch of the McCoy clan involved in the infamous American Hatfield–McCoy feud. He was born the fourth child (of thirteen) of Daniel McCoy (1790 - 1885) and Margaret Taylor McCoy (1800 - 1868) and lived mostly on the Kentucky side of Tug Fork, a tributary of the Big Sandy River.[citation needed]
During the almost thirty-year feud with the Hatfield clan under their patriarch William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield, Randolph would lose five of his children to the violence and another to what most considered "a broken heart."
Randolph McCoy married his first cousin, Sarah "Sally" McCoy (born 1829; died in the 1890s), daughter of Samuel McCoy and Elizabeth Davis, on December 9, 1849 in Pike County, Kentucky. They had 16 children together. Their children were as follows:
Josephine McCoy, daughter (1848 –) James H. "Uncle Jim" McCoy, son (1849 – 1929) Floyd McCoy, son (1853 – 1928) Tolbert McCoy, son (1854 – 1882) Lilburn McCoy, son (1855 –) Samuel McCoy, son (1856 – 1921) unnamed infant daughter (1857 – 1857) Alifair McCoy, daughter (1858 – 1888) Roseanna McCoy, daughter (1859 – 1888) Calvin McCoy, son (1862 – 1888) Pharmer McCoy, son (1863 – 1882) Randolph "Bud" McCoy, son (1864 – 1882) William McCoy, son (1866 –) Trinvilla "Trinnie" McCoy, daughter (1868 –) Adelaide McCoy, daughter (1870 –) Fannie McCoy, daughter (1873 – 1943)
The family settled on a farm of 300 acres of land in what is now Pike County, Kentucky, and it was here that the seeds of the future feud were sown.
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