Feudists display three of their dead

ID: 3426 ~ Source: Kentucky Historical Society, Hatfield and McCoy photographs, SC 1345
This file appears in: McCoy Graves Here
Feudists display three of their dead
Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society

The identification of the people and events in this photograph is uncertain. The image may be of the McCoys laying out their deceased family members. Violence erupted through the 1880s between the McCoy clan of Pike County, Ky. and the Hatfield clan of Logan County (later Mingo County), West Virginia.

This file appears in: McCoy Graves Here

By The ExploreKYHistory team
Historical Marker #1728 marks Dils Cemetery in Pikeville. Dils Cemetery is the resting place of Randolph and Sarah McCoy, as well as their daughter, Roseanna, son, Sam, and Sam’s wife, Martha.  Each of these McCoys had their lives shaped by the feud…