Devil Anse Hatfield Family and Friends, Logan County, W. Va
Date:
1897
Description:
Back Row Standing L to R: Ock Damron, hired hand; Elias Hatfield; Detroit (Troy) Hatfield; Joe Hatfield; Cap Hatfield; Bill Borden, friend. Front, sitting L to R: Tennyson (Tennis) Hatfield; Devil Anse Hatfield; Willis Hatfield. In the background, Levicy Hatfield, wife if Devil Anse (sitting) and daughter Mary, (standing). Information included with the photograph:"In August of 1950 Isaac Newton Ballard says: 45th Virginia Regiment camped at Muddy Water Cave and Devil Anse Hatfield was a lieutenant in the Regiment. He was baptized into the Primitive Baptist Church before he died."
Henry D. Hatfield is pictured as senator-elect from West Virginia. He previously served a term as West Virginia's governor and was a nephew of Devil Anse Hatfield, patriarch of the Hatfield clan.
Albert Sidney Hatfield was the Matewan Police Chief at the time of the "Matewan Massacre" in which he became a folk hero to the Tug Valley coal miners.