Where is randolph mccoy buried

Later Col. Dils sold the property excluding the cemetery from the deed. The property, previously owned by the Syck family, already contained the graves of this family.

Dils cemetery is more than the resting place of the McCoys, but is also the first integrated cemetery in Eastern Kentucky. Dils allowed his freed slaves and their descendants be buried in the cemetery. Skip to content. Historic Dils Cemetery.

Attraction Spotlight. American History is at rest here. Find Dils Cemetery. Need a brochure? We can mail you one! Click the link below, and fill out your name and mailing address. Request a brochure. Randolph McCoy was a poor man and he and his family worked and lived on a small farm.

Randolph and his family lived on the Kentucky side of the Tug Fork. Some of his kinsmen worked for the Hatfields, a fact that would further complicate some events during the feud.

The first direct act of violence and what many consider the true start of the feud occurred at a local election in The McCoy brothers stabbed him 26 times and then shot him in the back.

Devil Anse told the McCoy boys that if Ellison died, they would be killed. The Hatfields took the McCoy boys into the woods and tied them to papaw bushes where they were shot at a total of 50 times.

All three boys were dead within five minutes. While the Hatfields viewed this as justice, their vigilante style revenge was still very illegal. Many of the men involved immediately had indictments against them, including Devil Anse and his sons. The Hatfields alluded arrest for an extended period of time and the governor of Kentucky requested that efforts be made for the removal of the Hatfields from West Virginia to Kentucky for trial.

Governor E. Willis Wilson from West Virginia refused this request and created tension between the states, but allowed the Hatfields to avoid arrest.

The attackers burned the cabin to force the occupants out. There was nothing of value left of the house, so the McCoy family relocated to Pikeville to avoid the reach of Hatfield raiders. Randolph McCoy was never the same after losing so many of his children and family members to the feud. He became a ferryman on the Tug and he faded into obscurity while the legend of the Hatfield-McCoy feud lived on. McCoy died on March 28, at the age of 88 while tending a fire. Close Drawer.

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