: 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.
Even today, more than a century later, her life and that of her kinsmen form the compelling center for books and films. It is one in a horde of retellings . . . from major movies and love songs to old texts, many with widely varying version of dates, names, times and what occurred. Yet one fact remains: Nothing like the Hatfield-McCoy feud has ever happened in American life. Nor could it happen today. First, there are the people ...