Sarah "Aunt Sallie" McCoy
b.1829 - KY
d.1900 -
----- Parents -----
Samuel McCoy
Elizabeth Davis
----- Siblings -----
Hiram McCoy
Rebecca McCoy
John McCoy
Asa McCoy
William McCoy
Eleanor McCoy
Lucinda McCoy
Allen McCoy
Uriah McCoy
Pyrris McCoy
Ulissis McCoy
Sarah "Aunt Sallie" McCoy
Jane McCoy
----- Marriages -----
m01. 1849 09 Dec - Pike Co., KY + Randolph/Randall McCoy (16 Children)
----- Children -----
Josephine McCoy
James McCoy
Tolbert McCoy
Floyd McCoy
Lilburn McCoy
Sam McCoy
? McCoy
Allifair McCoy
Roseanna McCoy [A1527]
Calvin McCoy
Pharmer McCoy
Randolph McCoy, Jr
William McCoy
Twinville McCoy
Adelaide McCoy
Fanny McCoy
Jerry Hatfield Have I got this straight? Bill Staton who testified was a
"junior" and the son of Nancy McCoy who was a sister of Randolph McCoy's
wife?
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Ryan Hardesty Close. Bill was a junior and the son of Nancy McCoy, but
Nancy and Randolph's wife Sally were not sisters but first cousins.
Sally's father was Samuel's brother John.
# SARAH "SALLY" McCOY F 1829 in Pike Co., Kentucky. She married her first
cousin, RANDOLPH "OLD RANDALL" McCOY, the leader of the clan in the
Hatfield/McCoy feud (b: 30 Oct 1825 in Pike Co., Ky.). They were married
on 9 Dec 1849 in Pike Co., Ky., and had the following children:
# Joseph McCoy b: Abt 1848;
# James H. McCoy b: Mar 1849;
# Floyd McCoy b: 4 May 1853 in Pike Co., Ky.;
# Tolbert McCoy b: 16 Jun 1854 in Pike Co., Ky.;
# Samuel McCoy b: 10 Dec 1855 in Pike Co., Ky.;
# Lilburn McCoy b: Abt 1856 in Pike Co., Ky.;
# Female unnamed McCoy b: 1 Feb 1857 in Pike Co., Ky.;
# Allifair McCoy b: 10 Jun 1858 in Pike Co., Ky.;
# Rosanna McCoy b: 21 Mar 1859 in Pike Co., Ky.;
# Calvin McCoy b: Abt 1862 in Pike Co., Ky.;
# Pharmer McCoy b: Abt 1863 in Pike Co., Ky.;
# Randolph "Bud" McCoy b: Abt 1864 in Pike Co., Ky.;
# William McCoy b: Abt 1866 in Pike Co., Ky.;
# Trinvilla "Trinnie" McCoy b: Abt 1868 in Pike Co., Ky.;
# Adelaide McCoy b: Abt 1870; and
# Fanny McCoy b: Abt 1873 in Pike Co., Ky.
#
# Note: THE HATFIELDS AND THE McCOYS by Otis K. Rice, 1982, Univ. of KY
Press, p. 4; pp. 62-63 describes the slaughter of the McCoy family and
the beating of Sarah by the Hatfields on 1 Jan 1888. Sarah begged to be
allowed to tend her dying daughter Alifair (pictured at right), and was
beaten severely in the head with a gun butt by Johnse Hatfield. Her skull
was crushed and her arm and hip broken. She is buried in Dills Cemetery,
Pike County, Kentucky.
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Testimony of Sarah McCoy
Sarah McCoy:
"I am the mother of Farmer, Tolbert, & Randolph McCoy. They are dead.
They were killed on the night of Aug 9th, 1882. I saw them on the morning
before that, at Floyd McCoy's while they were under arrest. I did not see
Wall Hatfield there. He was not there. I next saw them on Mate Creek in
Logan County, W.VA., at a school house. Wall had a double barrel shot
lying across his lap. I was talking praying and crying for my boys.
While over at the mouth of Mate, I heard Wall say, that of Ellison
Hatfield died he would shoot the boys as full of holes as a sifter
bottom."
Barbara Vance Cherep
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I wish I knew enough about the women to write a book on them. Here's a
little of what I say about one of them in my upcoming book: Sarah (Sally)
McCoy, Ran'l's wife is the feud's most tragic figure. How she held up as
well as she did is a mystery to me. I haven't cried much in the last
several decades, but I come close every time I read her testimony in the
trial:
"I am the mother of Tolbert, Farmer (sic) and Randolph McCoy. They are
dead.Wall had a double barrel shot gun laying across his lap.I was
talking, praying and crying for my boys.I heard Wall say that if Ellison
Hatfield died, he would shoot the boys as full of holes as a sifter
bottom..I fell on my knees and began praying, begging and crying for my
children."
Feud writers search in vain for a hero in the feud story, but their
efforts always fall short of the mark. There were no heroes, but there
was a heroine-Sally McCoy. Sally McCoy at the schoolhouse on Mate Creek,
pleading for the lives of her sons; Sally McCoy dragging her battered
body through the snow in an effort to reach her dying daughter on January
1, 1888; and Sally McCoy giving her powerful testimony on the witness
stand in 1889; These all leap out to me as heroic actions.
Thomas Dotson
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