Notes for JOHNSE HATFIELD:
Virginia Murdered Caught
Publishers Press Dispatch
Williamson, WV, July 20, Deputy United States Marshall Dan Cunningham, with two detective aids, late on Monday night, on Poplar Creek, in this county, captured the notorious Johnson Hatfield. Hatfield was taken by surprise and surrendered. He was hurried to Kentucky. Hatfield was wanted for the part played by him at the time the McCoy home was burned and a defenseless woman, Alafair McCoy, and a male member of the McCoy function (sic faction) were killed by the Hatfields in the time of the vendetta on News Year’s night, nine years ago. Since then a charge of murder has stood against him, and a large reward has been offered for his arrest. He had outwitted the constables time and again. It was reported here this morning that deputies were after Hatfield’s father, Devil Anse, and others of the clan, and that serious trouble seemed imminent.

New York Times March 12, 1900
Hatfield Must Go To Prison
Murderer of a Woman in a Feud to Serve Life Sentence
Special to the New York Times
Frankfort, KY, March 11 – After ten years Johnson Hatfield must go to prison for life for the murder of Alifair McCoy. This marks another step in the Hatfield-McCoy feud, which created a reign of terror in Kentucky until ten years ago, and has broken out at intervals since, but only in the way of individual killings. Most of the leaders have either been convicted or have been shot to death. The case of Johnson Hatfield was affirmed by the Court of Appeals yesterday. His victim was a woman. He was convicted in Pike County, and given a life sentence and has fought the case desperately to the end. Hatfield was indicted in Pike County for the murder of Alifair McCoy in August 1888 and also was indicted for having previously conspired with others to kill her. Hatfield had ten years of freedom before he was finally apprehended. He was arraigned for trail the first time in September, 1898, when he obtained a change of venue to Floyd County on the ground of prejudice. Hatfield then appealed from the life sentence of the Floyd Circuit court on the ground of errors in instruction. The Court of Appeals in a decision by Judge Burnam sustains the verdict. The case is notable as being one of the few successful convictions in the feud, yet of all the men accused of murder not one has ever been hanged.

Note: Ellison Mounts was hung for the murder of Alifair February 18, 1889.

Washington Post, April 22, 1922
“Devil Anse’s” Son Dead
Johnst Hatfield Served Term for Killing McCoy Clan Member
Williamson, WV, April 21 – Johnst Hatfield, son of the late “Devil Anse” Hatfield, and an active participant in the Hatfield – McCoy feud of years ago, died in his mountain cabin at Wharncliffe, near here, late last night. When the feud was at its height Johnst, who was known as “Devil Anse’s” right-hand man in the war on the McCoys, was captured by Kentucky authorities in West Virginia and hurried across the Tug River. He was convicted in Kentucky of the murder of a member of the McCoy clan and served thirteen years of a life sentence.

More About JOHNSE HATFIELD:
Alternate/Nickname: Johnse/Johnson
Cause of Death: Heart attack while riding a horse

Notes for WILLIAM ANDERSON HATFIELD, JR.:
Wayne County News - February 24, 1891 a letter from Cap Hatfield was printed that read: "I ask your valuable paper for these few lines. A general amnesty has been declared in the famous Hatfield & McCoy feud, and I wish to say something of the old and the new. I do not wish to keep the old feud alive and I suppose that everybody, like myself, is tired of the names of Hatfield and McCoy, and the "Border Warfare" in time of peace. The war spirit in me has abated and I sincerely rejoice at the prospect of peace. I have devoted my life to arms. We have undergone a fearful loss of noble lives and valuable property in the struggle. We being, like adam, not the first transgressors. Now I propose to rest in a spirit of peace."

Feudist’s Illness Is Giving Concern
“Cap” Hatfield is Seriously Ill at Family Home on Island Creek
Logan, Aug. 1 – Concern is felt for William Anderson “Cap” Hatfield, most famous living figure in the famed Hatfield-McCoy feud of the last century, who is ill at his home on Main Island Creek. He is suffering stomach malady and complications, according to physicians. Among those visiting his bedside during the week were Senator Henry D. Hatfield, of Huntington, United States senator and cousin of the sick man. He will likely visit here again during the week-end. “Cap” Hatfield is the oldest son of “Devil Anse” Hatfield, outstanding figure in the feud. He is an elder brother of Sheriff Joe Hatfield of this county and Tennis S. Hatfield, former Logan sheriff, and the father of Police Judge Coleman Hatfield, Magistrate L. W. Hatfield and Deputy Sheriff Bob Hatfield, all of this county.

Special to the New York Times Associated Press Photo
New York Times - August 23, 1930, Page 8
“Cap” Hatfield Dies; Famed as Feudist
Was Leader in Kentucky – West Virginia Clan Fights That Lasted Half Century
More Than 100 Lives Lost
Central Figure in Mountain Wars
Spent Last Years In Peace – Succumbs in Baltimore
Baltimore, MD, Aug. 22 – “Cap” William Anderson Hatfield of Loan, WV, who with others of the Hatfield family figured in the notorious Hatfield - McCoy mountaineers’ feud which raged in Southwestern West Virginia for half a century, died today at the age of 68 at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from a brain ailment. Accompanied by his wife, a son and a daughter, the mountaineer arrived in Baltimore Sunday and was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, for he had been ill for two months at home. In more recent years the younger members of the family came out of the mountains, forgot their interfamily troubles and attended Southern schools. “Cap Hatfield was called the most dangerous of his clan.” Born in 1862, the year after the famous McCoy-Hatfield vendetta commenced, he was the eldest of the thirteen children of Anderson (Devil Anse) Hatfield, chief of the clan and its leader throughout the forty-eight years of the feud. More than 100 men, women and children of the two families were slain in the battles, which raged in Logan and Mingo Counties, West Virginia, and Pike County, Kentucky. It was said in those days that whenever a McCoy head showed out of a window a Hatfield gun would bark; whenever a Hatfield gazed from his home at the surrounding hill country a McCoy gun would bark. Before the Civil War the two families, large landowners – the McCoys in Kentucky and the Hatfields in West Virginia – were friendly. They had been brought together by business and intermarriage. The sons of both families joined the home guards and took part in raids into the bordering States. Thus their relations became strained.

Trouble Began Over Stolen Hogs.
In 1863, the year of the Battle of Gettysburg, according to the McCoy story, the McCoys turned loose some hogs which were stolen by the Hatfields. The Hatfields indignantly denied the allegation and a trial followed. Whatever its outcome, it was unsatisfactory to both sides. The first bloodshed occurred soon after, when Devil Anse killed Harmon McCoy. Occasional killings followed, and in 1882 began a romance which fanned the quiescent embers of the feudists’ hates. Jonce Hatfield and Rosanna McCoy fell in love! She was a daughter of Randolph McCoy; the chieftain of the McCoy clan, and Jonce had already been married. They lived together and their families became increasingly embittered, so that killings recurred with new vigor. Rosanna returned to her family in Pike County during the height of the fray, but Jonce, like a true lover, continued to visit her. He was finally captured by the men of her family, who turned him over to Sheriff’s men to be arrested for carrying a concealed gun, although they themselves were always armed. Fearing her relatives would murder Jonce, Rosanna hastened to the Hatfields and aroused them.

Three Brothers Killed at Once
“Devil Anse” and his son “Cap” headed a band which rescued Jonce and renewed warfare which followed resulted in the stabbing of Ellison Hatfield, one of “Devil Anse’s” sons, by four McCoys. As Ellison lay dying Elias and Val Hatfield arrived and, finding what had happened, headed a troop of kinsmen who seized Tolbert, Pharmer and Randolph McCoy. The Hatfields took the McCoys back to Logan County and there decided that if Ellison died their prisoners must. Ellison died and the Hatfields killed the three brothers. A Hatfield, sitting as coroner, pronounced the murders to have been committed by unidentified persons and the Pike County grand jury indicted twenty-three Hatfields. No one, however would serve the warrants. The enmity that followed resulted in an expedition to the McCoy homestead led by “Cap” Hatfield. The home was set afire. As Mrs. McCoy, wife of Randolph, ran out, she was knocked senseless. Her 16-year-old daughter was shot dead and Randolph shot his way to freedom. Calvin McCoy also was killed and victory belonged to the Hatfields. Reprisals followed, with more deaths on both sides, and at last “Cap” and his step-son were lodged in the Mingo County jail. “Devil Anse” tried to effect a jail delivery but failed. Soon afterward “Cat,” with the aid of a smuggled hatchet, chopped his way out.

The Fight of “Devil’s Backbone.”
There was fight left in the Hatfields. A dozen of the clan, herded together, were pursued by a posse headed by Randolph McCoy and the battle which followed ended the lives of half dozen on each side, but the Hatfields, led by the valiant “Cap,” fled into the heart of their own country, where they took refuge in the “Devil’s Backbone,” a hugh crag. The deputies closed in and opened fire, finally bringing up dynamite to blast the crag. The blast went off and the handful of Hatfields charged their greatly outnumbered enemy. Down toppled the “Devil’s Backbone” with a second blast but “Cap” and a few of his followers escaped. After 1887 the feud died down. In 1898 many of the youths of both sides went to the Spanish-American War and returned with the knowledge that the world was a larger place than they had thought.

“Cap” Hatfield Becomes Peaceful.
“Cap,” once described as “six feet of devil and 180 pounds of hell,” became peaceful, later serving as a deputy she5riff of Logan County under J. D. Hatfield, present sheriff, his brother, and Tennis Hatfield, another brother. “Cap,” who studied law by correspondence in his middle age, and had been an indefatigable reader, even in the early fighting days, was admitted to the bar. He did not practice, however. He never indulged much in reminiscence and could not be persuaded to recount his early experiences. He once did confide to friends that many of his old-time foes believed he had a charmed life. He said he “guessed” he was shot at about 300 times during the mountain warfare and was wounded but once.

NOTE: It wasn’t Cap Hatfield that was called “six feet of devil and 180 pounds of hell”, it was his father, Devil Anse.

More About WILLIAM ANDERSON HATFIELD, JR.:
Alternate/Nickname: Cap Hatfield
Burial: 1930, Island Creek, Logan Co., WV
Cause of Death: Brain tumor - but autopsy indicated it was the result of an old bullet wound
Miscellaneous: Very active participant in the feud. Said to have killed between 18-25 men in his lifetime

Newspaper Article - The Thompson Killing
The killing of James Thompson by John T. Vance is one of those unfortunate affairs which has grown out of the prevalent disregard of private rights and the habit of carrying the deadly Winchester. Whether Vance is justifiable or not is for a jury of his peers to say, and we would in no wise assume a duty which is entirely theirs, but the fact still remains that one man is dead, leaving a large family to the mercies of the world, and the other is forced to an expense which at best is hard to meet in the present depression. This might have been prevented had mutual friends interfered in time. Both were good citizens and useful to the community, and had earnest effort been made to settle the dispute between them, Jim Thompson would have been alive and John Vance a free man. We have too few men who are peace-makers and too many ready to encourage trouble.

ELIAS M. HATFIELD:
Stevens Point Journal, July 22, 1899
Hatfield Surrenders
Louisville, KY, July 12 – Elias Hatfield, the noted desperado and son of “Devil Anse” Hatfield, leader of the Hatfield-McCoy feud that cost 141 lives, surrendered to Gov. Atkinson of West Virginia, in person Tuesday at Gray.  Hatfield shot Sheriff Ellis a week ago and has been holding off a posse in the Kentucky Mountains.  Hatfield looks for acquittal on the grounds of self-defense.

Washington Post, October 17, 1911
Two Hatfields Slain
Lying Dying, They Kill the Man Who Shot Them
Special to the Washington Post
Charleston, WV, Oct. 17 – Elias Hatfield, aged 40, and Troy Hatfield, aged 36, brothers, and Octavo Gerone, an Italian, were almost instantly killed at Hartwood, near Montgomery, this afternoon in a pistol battle resulting from a dispute over the division of saloon territory in Fayette County. The Hatfields were sons of “Devil Anse” Hatfield, formerly leader of the West Virginia faction in the Hatfield - McCoy feud, which was waged for a dozen years along the West Virginia - Kentucky border.

Charleston Daily Mail, February 15, 1952
Hatfield Brothers Killed in Shootout
Recalls Slaying Of Hatfield Boys
By Charles Connor
Those of you who read Don Seagle's interesting story on "Devil Anse" Hatfield in last Sunday's Daily Mail probably remember the statement that not one of his 11 children died in the blazing Hatfield - McCoy feud of the late 1800's.

Going further than that, only two of the famed chieftain's 11 children have died anything other than natural deaths thus far. Those two - Elias and Troy - met death violently some 30 miles upriver from Charleston outside a little house at Harewood. The man who supplies this information is 79-year-old Enoch Shamblin of Pocataligo, who was tending bar for the Hatfield boys at Boomer in 1911 when they were shot and killed by an immigrant Italian laborer.

"I closed the bar, which was the longest in the state at that time," said Shamblin the other day while sunning himself outside Goff's grocery. "Within 10 minutes, I was at the side of Troy who told me, 'Enoch, I won't be here long.' The shooting occurred at 11 o'clock that morning. Troy died at 4 p. m. His brother lay dead in the yard, as did the Italian who shot them.

"The Italian was a big man, 240 pounds I reckon, and he had been hauling beer into Boomer from Kanawha County. The Hatfield boys considered this an infringement on their territory and took him out and whipped him one time. He told them that wouldn't stop him, and it didn't.

"He fetched up another load of beer a few days later to sell to all the Italians living up Boomer hollow. The Hatfield boys heard about it and tracked him up there. He made it to this house at Harewood, though. They followed him there, and he shot both of them.

"He must have figured he had killed them, because he left the house and was going out the gate when Troy, who was laying beside the house, raised up and shot him in the back of the head. He dropped and filled up the gate - he was that big."

Enoch, a Kanawha farm boy who went to Smithers to become stable boss for a mining company, took a job as bartender when he found he could make $100 a month. He had been making only $65 at the stable.
"They paid well because they could hardly get anyone to tend bar," he said. "In the six years I worked there, I had 57 fights. I weighed about 190 pounds then, was 6-1 in height, and strong as a bull because of the farm work I had done before going there.

The Sims boys owned the bar when I started work, but Troy and Elias bought into it later and came over from Logan County. Joe and Tennis, two of Devil Anse's other sons, helped run it from time to time, too.
"Even then, the Hatfield boys didn't want to talk about the feud in which their father had been a leader. I remember a lot of the men who came into our place asked them about it, but they shrugged it off and went about their business. "Both Troy and Elias were the best fellows you'd want to meet, mister. Good as I ever saw. They respected me and I respected them."

In those rip-roaring days before the state adopted its prohibition amendment in 1912, Enoch recalls it was nothing for the bar to take in $3,000 on a pay day. Business through the week never fell below $300 a day either.
"I guess there were some of the meanest fellows alive living around there in those days," he said, "and a lot of them came there to whip me. They used to take bets on who could whip the bartender. I soon learned them, though. I never fought any of them more than once.

"One big 200-pound fellow standing 6-4 came down from Gauley Bridge one Saturday night. I remember the showboat was tied up at the river bank and Elias told me to stay and tend bar and that I could go see the show Monday night. This big man came in and tried to chase people out of the bar, just aiming for a fight. It was about 8 o'clock. We squared off and I hauled back and hit him so hard he was killed for five hours. Yessir, Elias Hatfield came back from the showboat to find him lying in the floor. He finally came to about 1 a. m. when we tossed a bucket of beer over him."

Shamblin says he also had to whip a man named "Fighting Bill" from Montgomery who had whipped everyone in that town and was looking for new fields to conquer.
"The boys warned me he was coming and I told them that 'I ain't gonna bother anyone but I ain't gonna be bothered, either.' Sure enough, he stormed through the door, turned over some tables, and I had to come around the bar and kill him for an hour or two." When the state went dry, Enoch came back to Kanawha with his hard-earned cash and bought a 100- acre farm near Pocataligo where he still lives.

Strange, though is the fact that "Devil Anse" and all his sons successfully dodged the hail of bullets which erupted periodically on the West Virginia-Kentucky border during their feuding with the McCoys, and then, in "peaceful" Kanawha valley, two of them met violent death at the business end of a blazing pistol.
"I saw them ship the bodies of Troy and Elias back to Logan county," said Shamblin. "It was a sad day at Boomer and we closed the bar out of respect. The Hatfield boys were well-liked."

"Devil Anse," who said he always felt he would die a natural death, passed away Jan. 8, 1921. To the right of his grave are those of his sons, Troy and Elias.

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Notes for DETROIT W. HATFIELD:
Ft. Wayne Gazette, December 7, 1895
A Fourteen-Year Old Murderer
Huntington, WV, Dec. 6 – Near Williamson, Toy [sic Troy] Hatfield, the 14-year old son of “Devil” Anse Hatfield of Hatfield-McCoy fame, last night fired four Winchester balls into Dan Craig, killing him instantly.

Hatfield Brothers Killed in Shootout
Montgomery News
October 20, 1911
A Triangular Shooting
Results in the Death of All Participants at Harewood, Near Montgomery, Tuesday, Shortly Before Noon
Elias And Troy Hatfield Dead
Octtavio Jerome, Italian Who Fired the Fatal Shots Into the Bodies of the Hatfield Brothers is Also Dead as a Result of Troy Hatfield's Effective Return Fire

The first break, or death in a family of thirteen children, sons and daughters of Anderson and Levisa Hatfield, occurred Tuesday shortly after the noon hour when Elias and Troy Hatfield succumbed to bullet wounds inflicted upon them by Octavio Jerome, an Italian who resides here in Montgomery with his family and who was also killed by Troy Hatfield, after he had received his death wounds.
The shooting occurred at Harewood a short distance below Boomer, and about three miles from Montgomery on the Kanawha & Michigan railroad, in the house of another Italian by the name of Angeline with whom Jerome was transacting business matters when the Hatfields arrived.
The killing is the outcome, it is said, of the violation by Jerome of an agreement that existed between Carl Hanson, who conducts a saloon at Boomer. It is said that at the time the Cannelton saloon was established, an agreement was made between Hatfield and Hanson that neither would encroach upon the others territory in the sale of beers and liquors and that a certain boundary was defined which was mutually satisfactory. Jerome was employed by Hanson to solicit orders from Italians and others along the K. & M., for liquors and beer and that he made regular deliveries of the goods sold in this manner. On several occasions, it is said Jerome violated the agreement and on these occasions, he was warned by Hatfield not to repeat them. The warnings had no effect and recently Jerome was taken severely to task, and it is alleged was given a thrashing. Still Jerome continued to solicit orders at will where-ever he pleased and on Tuesday he boarded the 11:10 train at Cannelton and went to Boomer, it being his intention to meorgia Ref">t face="Georgia Ref">eet a wagon at Boomer that he had started in that direction from Cannelton loaded with beers and liquors. It is further stated, that Elias Hatfield learned of this, and in company with his brother, Troy, started down the railroad track to see Jerome about the matter. On the road they met the wagon and caused the driver to turn and go back, toward Cannelton and then they proceeded to the house of Angeline where Jerome was.
The two brothers walked upon the front porch of the house and knocked on the door, and the door was opened to them by Angeline, who occupied the house with his wife and children. Elias knew Angeline well and shaking hands with him, asked if Jerome was there. Angeline responded in the affirmative, stating that he was in one of the back rooms. Elias, started into the house while Angeline stepped out on the porch, and just as he stepped within the room a pistol shot rang out. Turning slightly he stepped farther into the room and two more shots were fired and the elder of the two brothers fell to the floor, with three bullets in his body, Troy stepped over his brother's body and in quick succession three more shots were fired by the Italian all of them striking Troy. Troy ran out of the house in pursuit of the Italian who had jumped out of the back door into the back yard, and with his life blood took deadly aim and in a flash flowing freely from the wounds, had sent four bullets into Jerome. The first bullet fired by Troy struck the Italian in the right side of the head and came out through the left eye causing instant death. Upon being hit by the first bullet the Italian turned fell front to Troy, who was supporting himself by leaning against the house and as the foreigner was falling forward three more bullets pierced his body. These bulletts [sic] entered the breast, one below each nipple and the other midway between these two.
Another story of the affair is to the effect that the entire trouble arose because of the objection of Hatfield to Jerome supplying trade formerly supplied by him, and that recently an argument with reference to the matter ensued between Elias Hatfield and Jerome in which the latter came out pretty badly used. It is said by persons at Boomer that Jerome had been warned, that the Hatfields were on their way to Harewood on the day of the shooting, and he was prepared to meet them. It was stated that Jerome was on the porch of the house and he saw the Hatfields coming, and remarked that he had better be going, and went into the house leaving his friend sitting on the porch. The brother then arrived at the house and following incidents were about as stated in the beginning of the account of this affair.
Elias Hatfield lived but a minute or two, and managed before life left his body to crawl to the back yard. He said something to his brother and indicated on his body the location of the wounded Troy, lived forty-seven minutes and was conscious up to the last.
Another brother of the Hatfields, Joseph, who was at Boomer arrived at the scene of the trouble within a few minutes and conversed with his brother, Troy. The dying man told his brother that no one but Jerome, Elias and himself were mixed up in the affaira [sic], and that it was his desire that no further trouble be raised about it. His exact words are said to have been "Let no further trouble come of this, as only we three are concerned, and we will all be dead."
News of the affair was received in Montgomery within a few minutes after it occurred and caused no little excitement, as details were lacking.
Constable Parry, policeman Warren and other officers went immediately to Harewood in Judge Simms automobile but their services were not needed. When they arrived Angeline had been placed under arrest by an officer, but was released when Troy Hatfield told the officer that he had nothing to do with the shooting or the trouble that led up to it.
While the account of the affair as given above is generally thought to be as nearly true as it will be possible to ascertain, many other reports have been circulated differing somewhat as to just how the shooting was done, and as to the causes leading up to it, but all of these stories have as a basis alleged encroachment of Jerome, upon territory that he should not have gone on. It is also said that Elias Hatfield fired at least one of the shots that struck Jerome, but this is not thought to be true. His pistols were found lying on the floor of the room in which the shooting started, but the authorities or others have been unable to find the persons who picked up the revolvers, neither have they been able to locate the weapons. Troy Hatfield's pistol contained four empty shells, and those who are familiar with his ability to shoot, are reasonably certain that only he and Jerome did any shooting. Jerome used a 32 Colt's Special, and fired the six bullets, dividing them evenly, three at Elias and three at Troy, all of them taking effect. The bullet which caused the almost instant death of Elias entered the back just below the right shoulder and passed through the body coming out at the left breast. One other bullet struck him in the left side and one in the right side. Troy was shot through the left wrist, the muscle of the right arm and in the stomach. The fact that one of the bullets passed through the muscle of his right arm renders his shooting remarkable in no small degree for every shot he fired found lodgement in Jerome[']s body at a point where either would have caused his death.
Troy Hatfield was considered, one of the best marksmen with a revolver in the country. Stories of his wonderful marksmanship have been related often in this city, and many persons here have been witnesses to feats of marksmanship performed by him that would hardly be believed by other than an eye witness. One of his favorite stunts with the revolver was to shoot half dollar coins pitched in the air by friends who were willing to sacrifice the value of the coin just to witness the marksmanship of young Hatfield. Many donated their coins not fearing they would be hit, but in all such cases these "Doubting Thomasses," came up short fifty cents.
Troy Hatfield and his brother, Elias were both well known here in Montgomery and those who knew them can not say that they ever met more pleasant gentlemen than they. Elias Hatfield had been engaged in the saloon business at Boomer for a number of years and his business affairs brought him to Montgomery almost daily. Upon these frequent visits he was met by a large number of Montgomery people, as was his brother who also visited the city frequently. They were always pleasant in manner and because of their pleasant attitude toward all with whom they came in contact, they became extremely popular here, and the news of their untimely end caused much regret among their friends in this city. They were quiet and unassuming men, who had the reputation for tending to their own business.
They were both married, Elias, having married the daughter of J. Holland, a well known coal man of Keeney's Creek. To this union one child was born, and Mrs. Hatfield with this child are among the surviving relatives.
Troy Hatfield was also married, but no children were born to the union. He had been at Boomer in the employ of his brother for several months.
Octavio Jerome the Italian has been a resident of Montgomery for about two years, during a greater part of which time he was employed in the restaurant which is conducted in the Mammoth Cave saloon. Four months ago when the saloon at Cannelton was opened, his services were transferred from the local saloon to that at Cannelton. He continued his residence in this city, however, having rooms in the old hotel Montgomery building. His daughter was recently married to Mr. Sam Nicastro, one of the best known young men of Montgomery, who is engaged with his father in the grocery business.
He was extremely popular among his countrymen and Americans who had become acquainted with him, in this city liked him very much. He was unusually well informed on American customs, and by close application had gained an excellent knowledge of our language, being called upon often as interpreter in the local courts and in business transactions between Americans and Italians.
The funeral of Jerome was held Thursday afternoon at two o'clock from the Catholic church, of this city, Rev. Father T. H. Collins, officiating. Interment was in the Montgomery cemetery.
Troy and Elias Hatfield were sons of Anderson and Louvisa Hatfield, who have been life long residents of Logan County. Elias was born in Logan County, near Williamson now in Mingo county November 4th, 1877, and lacked but eighteen days of being 34 years of age when he met his death. Troy was born in the year 1879, at the same place as his brother, and where both of them resided with their parents until they had grown to be sturdy youths, when the family moved to a point near Logan Court House.
To Anderson and Lovisa Hatfield who are now 71 and 60 years old, respectively, thirteen children were born, nine boys and four grils [sic]. The family has been bound together, as it were, by cords impossible to sever, and at no time were any of the brothers separated by such distance as to render it impossible for them to get together within a few hours. Such love and devotion as existed between the members of this family is probably unparalelled [sic] in the history of time, and the death of Elias and Troy, is the first break that has ever occurred in the family. All of the surviving brothers arrived in this city within a few hours after the death of their brothers and remained here until Wednesday noon when they left to accompany the remains to Logan County.
The remains of the two Hatfields were brought to this city and placed in charge of the Davis Undertaking company Tuesday afternoon and the bodies were viewed at the undertaking establishment Wednesday morning by hundreds of friends and acquaintances and ma[n]y who went out of curiosity.
Likewise the body of Jerome, was viewed at the J. W. Montgomery Undertaking establishment, where it was taken Tuesday afaternoon [sic] to be prepared for burial.
Elias and Troy Hatfield are survived by their parents, now residing on the old Hatfield home place twelve miles out of Logan, the county seat of Logan county, and seven brothers and four sisters, as follows: Johnson and Robert, of Warren Cliff; W. A., of War Eagle, Joseph D., of Boomer; Dr. E. R., of Eventon; Willis, of Herberton and Tennyson, also of Herberton, he being the youngest of the seven surviving brothers. The sisters surviving are Mrs. Nancy Vance, Mrs. Mary House, Mrs. Bettie Caldwell and Mrs. Rosie Browning, all residing near Oilville, Logan County.
Two caskets, laden with many floral designs, were placed on train No. 3 at noon Wednesday and taken to Huntington and from there to the old home place at Oilville, and today, Friday, will be interred in one grave.