6) Fill in the blanks based on what you listen:
Shortly after the Civil War and up until about the turn of the century these mountains along the West Virginia Kentucky border were home to the most famous feuding family of all times the Hatfields and McCoys. The leader of the Hatfield clan, “Devil Anse” is my great-great-great uncle and this is where our story begins.
“They were men who matched the mountains, they were Hatfields and McCoys. They were men who matched the mountains; they were men when they were boys.”
I recently met with singer-songwriter Jimmy Wofford at his home in Kentucky. Although many books have been written on the feud, Wolford a local legend and great nephew to Randolph McCoy, the __________________ of the McCoy clan was the first to write an entire album of songs on the feud. I asked him how my uncle William Anderson Hatfield, got his nickname, “Devil Anse”.
“One they said when he was a kid he was devilish, you know like to carry on and play pretty ________________ at times, then others say that during the Civil War he had a nickname, they nicknamed him “Devil Anse” because he was a pretty tough character”.
“Devil Anse” Hatfield was born in a log cabin in 1839, one of 11 children. His playground, the _______________ Appalachian Mountains of southern West Virginia. He loved to hunt and was known as one of the best horsemen and _______________ in the valley. Although he often hunted black bear, this photo shows in later years he also kept some as pets. He was illiterate but “Devil Anse” owned considerable land and ran a successful timber business. He and his wife, Levicy, were busy raising 13 children - life was good, until one day in the fall of 1878, Randolph McCoy who lived on the Kentucky side of the Tug Fork River accused Floyd Hatfield, “Devil Anse”s cousin of stealing some of his _________. The case went to trial and a jury of six Hatfields and six McCoy's found Floyd Hatfield innocent.
“They gave the hog back to the Hatfields all ‘hell broke loose’.”
