: 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.
Randal McCoy accused Floyd Hatfield of stealing his pig not because he was still angry about his brotherâs death thirteen years before but because Floyd worked on Devil Anseâs timber crew. In fact, Floyd lived on the Kentucky side of the river and was related to the McCoys as much as to the Hatfields.