1. Thompson/Mary Hatfield

Thompson Hatfield b. 1844
Mary (McCoy) b. 1848

Minnie (dau) b. 1877
Tolbert (son) b. 1877
Ella (dau) b. 1882

Thompson and Mary had 7 children, 6 of whom were still living in 1900, 3 at home. Both Thompson and Mary could read and write.

Thompson was the son of Ephraim Hatfield and Phoebe Esther Vance, who lived on the river at Lover's Lane. Phoebe was the daughter of Elizabeth Vance and the sister of Jim Vance of feud legend. She was also the sister of Nancy Vance, the mother of Devil Anse Hatfield.

Thompson also seems to have joined the 39th Kentucky infantry, Union army, along with other Hatfields from Blackberry. See Rosters, Company H. He is listed as having deserted in 1865.

Mary McCoy, I think, was the daughter of Asa McCoy and Eleanor "Nellie" Burress of Logan County. Asa McCoy was the brother of Sally McCoy, wife of Randall McCoy. Mary's brother, Selkirk McCoy, worked for Devil Anse on his timbering operations and was the "traitor" McCoy who voted for Floyd Hatfield and against Randall in the case of the pigs.

According to a story in the NYT, Thompson and his son Ephraim were killed in a shootout with Henry Watts and detective John Rutherford on Blackberry Creek in 1902, when Watts and Rutherford attempted to subdue and arrest Ephraim, who was wanted on charges of some sort in South Carolina.

Other children of Thompson and Mary not at home in 1900:

James B. (son) b. 1868
Ephraim (son) b. 1872
Asa (son) b. 1875