The History Channels episode about The Hatfield Farm (above)
The cast of "Hatfields & Mc Coys" (above)
From the mini series: Roseanna's death (above) ...Hmmm... Did anyone else catch this???... Roseanna was sent off by her "Poppy" (Dad) and mother, after her Poppy said, --- "You're no longer my daughter!," to live with her Aunt Betty. We see that Aunt Betty is working in her garden... I have a feeling she's an herbwoman, a folk healer. (What can heal, --- herbs, can also in stronger amounts, often kill. Did her parents send her off to be slowly poisoned by Aunt Betty because Roseanna was carrying a bastard in her belly, fathered by a hated Hatfield???... That's what I think, especially since both Roseanna and her baby girl were sickly after living all through Roseanna's pregnancy with Aunt Betty and Rosanna's baby was born sickly. Roseanna fades too, and eventually just dies.)
The real Roseanna Mc Coy (above), she was considered to be a beauty. The real Randall Mc Coy and his wife had 16 children. In real life Roseanna's baby supposedly died of the measles.
The lovers in the mini series, (above), --- Roseanna Mc Coy & Johnse Hatfield
His mother, Levicy Hatfield says, --- "Johnse is not a careful person, especially with women." His Uncle Wall says, --- "He's too handsome for his own good." The real Johnse Hatfield was married 5 times.
Theme Song: From The mini series "Hatfields & Mc Coys," - -- "I Know These Hills," sung by Sara Beck, her beautiful, haunting voice, (above), series starring Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton, Tom Berenger, Mare Winningham, Matt Bauer... Wonderfully acted, well-written, accurate to the true story, shot through brown and gray filters, so it looks old timey, --- very artistic.
Hatfields and McCoys, two American Appalachian mountaineer families who, with their kinfolk and neighbors, engaged in a legendary feud that attracted nationwide attention in the 1880s and ’90s and prompted judicial and police actions, one of which drew an appeal up to the U.S. Supreme Court (1888).
The real Anse or Anderson Hatfield (above)
Some of the real Hatfields (above)
After the mini series became popular tourism increased greatly in the area of the Tug River, which flows between West Virginia and Kentucky. In 2003, 60 surviving members of the Hatfield and Mc Coy families came together to sign a symbolic peace treaty to end forever the taint of feuding.
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