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Tom Chafin recalls history about the killing of his grandfather Ellison Hatfield (1989) #HatfieldsandMcCoys #HatfieldMcCoyFeud #history #WV #Appalachia #feuds

On June 21, 1989, John Hennen interviewed Tom Chafin (1911-1997) of Williamson, West Virginia. What follows here is an excerpt of Mr. Chafin’s story about the death of his grandfather Ellison Hatfield in 1882 and other general memories of the Hatfield family. JH: Okay, let’s go ahead and just follow that line. Tell me about Ellison Hatfield. And of course Ellison Hatfield was one of the…