Devil anse hatfield biography of nancy
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When Nancy Arabella Hatfield was born on 13 August 1869, in Sarah Ann, Logan, West Virginia, United States, her father, William Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield, was 29 and her mother, Levicy Chafin, was 26. She married John Totten Vance on 16 May 1889, in Logan, Logan, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Big Harts Creek, Lincoln, West Virginia, United States in 1900 and Triadelphia District, Logan, West Virginia, United States for about 10 years. She died on 30 April 1939, in Monaville, Logan, Virginia, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Hatfield Family Cemetery, Sarah Ann, Logan, West Virginia, United States.
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When Nancy A. Vance was born on 2 May 1813, in Russell, Virginia, United States, her father, John Ferrell, was 7 and her mother, Elizabeth Susannah Vance, was 19. She married Ephraim Prater Hatfield on 28 August 1828, in Pike, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Logan, Logan, Virginia, United States in 1850 and Magnolia, Morgan, West Virginia, United States in 1880. She died on 16 July 1895, in Newtown, Mingo, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Hatfield Cemetery, Newtown, Mingo, West Virginia, United States.
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Devil Anse Hatfield
American patriarch of the Hatfield clan (1839–1921)
William Anderson "Devil Anse" or “Uncle Anse” Hatfield (; September 9, 1839 – January 6, 1921) was the patriarch of the West Virginian Hatfield family who led the family during the Hatfield–McCoy feud.
Biography
[edit]Hatfield was born September 9, 1839, in western Virginia (now Logan, West Virginia), the son of Ephraim and Nancy (Vance) Hatfield.[1] His nickname "Devil Anse" has a variety of supposed origins. Among these are that it was given to him by his mother; that he was named it by Randolph McCoy; that he earned the nickname from his bravery during battle in the American Civil War; or because it contrasted to his good-tempered cousin, Anderson "Preacher Anse" Hatfield.[2]
A supporter of the Confederacy, Hatfield enlisted in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He was commissioned a First Lieutenant of Cavalry in the Virginia State Line in 1862, a gr