: 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.
The True Story of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud. Altina L. Waller is the author of Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900.. The famous family feud was the subject of the recent History Channel miniseries âHatfields and McCoysâ. Waller was interviewed extensively for the accompanying documentary to the miniseries.