: 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.
Not long after Johnseâs romantic entanglements another pivotal event in the feud occurred. Devil Anseâs brother Ellison Hatfield got into a fight with three of Randle McCoyâs sons at an election day celebration. One of the McCoys pulled a knife and Ellison was stabbed 27 times and then shot in the back.