Ellison "Cottontop" Mounts hanging

ID: 3416 ~ Date: 1890
This file appears in: Feudists on Trial
Courtesy of the Pike County Museum
This file appears in: Feudists on Trial

By The ExploreKYHistory team
Historical Marker #1913 commemorates one of the last incidents in the Hatfield-McCoy feud. Ellison Mounts, a poor twenty-five-year-old who took part in the raid of the McCoy’s home in 1888, was found…