: a small religious house dependent on a monastery or convent. : a one-room dwelling occupied by a solitary person (as a hermit) : a single room (as in a convent or prison) usually for one person.
Making the world better, one answer at a time. The Hatefield-McCoy feud began with the murder of Asa Harmon McCoy on January 7, 1865. Jim Vance, the uncle of Devil Anse Hatfield, despised Harmon because he had joined the Union Army during the American Civil War.
After that, tensions remained high among the two families, but not for Johnse Hatfield and Roseanne McCoy. Despite their family feud, the oldest son of Devil Anse and the daughter of Randolf Mccoy fell in love. Roseanne, too afraid to go home, moved in with the Hatfields and became pregnant.