Compare And Contrast The Hatfield And Montgomery

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Hatfield and McCoys The Hatfields and McCoys are famous for their family feud, they are the Montague and Capulets of America. The two families lived by the Tug Fork of Big Sandy River, which went around the boundary of Kentucky and West Virginia. The official start of the feud started when Randolph McCoy accused Floyd Hatfield of stealing one of his pigs. The charges were cleared because the witness Staton married a Hatfield, causing Staton to be murdered two years later by the nephews of the angry Randolph. The real turning point in the feud was when three McCoy boys got into a fight with two Hatfield boys, the bloody fight ended when one of the Hatfields was stabbed multiple times and then shot in the back. The Hatfields too revenge