Tony
2nd July 2003, 09:15 AM
http://www.news-leader.com/_archive/0615-Hatfields,-80163.html ..full article
Hatfields, McCoys close old feud by signing public proclamation
Pikeville, Ky. — A pen and ink sealed the end of Appalachia's most infamous bloody feud instead of a shotgun and bullets.
Descendants of the Hatfield and McCoy families gathered Saturday in Pikeville to sign the truce, making a largely symbolic and official end to a feud that had claimed at least a dozen lives from the two mountain families.
"We ask by God's grace and love that we be forever remembered as those that bound together the hearts of two families to form a family of freedom in America," says the truce, signed by more than 60 descendants.
Reo Hatfield of Waynesboro, Va., came up with the idea as a proclamation of peace.
The broader message it sends to the world, he said, is that when national security is at risk, Americans put their differences aside and stand united. If these two feuding families can come together, anyone can, he said.
I think I read in Psalms that this was a sign of the end times. Surely, the end is near :D
Hatfields, McCoys close old feud by signing public proclamation
Pikeville, Ky. — A pen and ink sealed the end of Appalachia's most infamous bloody feud instead of a shotgun and bullets.
Descendants of the Hatfield and McCoy families gathered Saturday in Pikeville to sign the truce, making a largely symbolic and official end to a feud that had claimed at least a dozen lives from the two mountain families.
"We ask by God's grace and love that we be forever remembered as those that bound together the hearts of two families to form a family of freedom in America," says the truce, signed by more than 60 descendants.
Reo Hatfield of Waynesboro, Va., came up with the idea as a proclamation of peace.
The broader message it sends to the world, he said, is that when national security is at risk, Americans put their differences aside and stand united. If these two feuding families can come together, anyone can, he said.
I think I read in Psalms that this was a sign of the end times. Surely, the end is near :D