Our McCoy Family Land
Campbell County Tennessee
Not long after their marriage in Wayne County Kentucky, John and Nancy Hatfield McCoy moved
with thier young family to Campbell County Tennessee.
It was here that the family grew and flourished until the coming of the Civil War.
The family built a home suitable for Sunday church services and the McCoy boys rode and explored the
surrounding hills, coming to know thier homeland well. According to letters written by a granddaughter, one day
Union troops arrived and forcebly removed the McCoy family from their precious home and land. The family
was able to take with them only what they could load onto a single wagon. Abandoned not only was their home,
but their livestock and fields, sources for the provisions of daily life and living.
Bereft of all they had built, the now large family of John and Nancy Hatfield McCoy
removed from East Tennessee to
Van Buren County
in Middle Tennessee.
Below is a brief record shown in
land transactions of the McCoy home and eventual loss of that way of life so laboriously and loviningly established.
Records research and transcriptions by Lois Cordova.
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