Alifair McCoy: The Daughter Killed on New Year's Night

Nineteen years of grievance along the Tug Fork came to a head on New Year's night, eighteen eighty-eight, when riders crossed into Kentucky and Alifair McCoy, twenty-nine, was struck down in her father's yard on Blackberry Fork. This is the full story of the Hatfield and McCoy feud and the one case that would not be forgotten. Trace it back to the disputed hog of eighteen seventy-eight, the doomed romance of Roseanna and Johnse, and the loss of Randolph's three sons in eighteen eighty-two, then follow the New Year's raid, the cross-border posse that came for Jim Vance, the kidnappings that carried Mahon against Justice all the way to the Supreme Court, and the Pikeville trials that ended with the one and only legal reckoning of the entire feud, Ellison Mounts. It closes on a quiet Pike County hillside and the woman the record almost forgot. Researched from court records, contemporary newspapers, and historical archives. Archival images are public domain or used for historical commentary; where no photograph survives, imagery is illustrative. Subscribe for more true stories from the Appalachian Mountains. #Appalachia #AppalachianHistory #TrueCrime #AppalachianCases