09/04/2024
PISTOL PACKIN’ JOHNSE HATFIELD: This tattered news clipping is from The Evening Standard (Ogden City, Utah), Dec. 31st, 1910. The individual identified in the photo is Johnson “Johnse” Hatfield, but spelled "Jonce” in the news feature. He is shown wearing western attire and gripping to two pistols — with other revolvers tucked under his belt. Johnse was the oldest and maybe the most unpredictable of the children of feud family patriarch, Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield, and his wife, Levicy Hatfield.
The image, likely taken in Logan County, WV, was included along with other photographs of Cap and Devil Anse Hatfield, Cottontop Mounts (identified as Ellison Hatfield in the news cutline), French Ellis, and Charles Gillispie.
The headline on the accompanying article was "The Feud Man and the Feud Woman" and included an interview with Cap, second child of Devil Anse.
The article was soon picked up in The Evening Standard, but was originally published in the New York Herald. By this period, the Hatfield McCoy Feud story was receiving national coverage as readers became fascinated with the accounts of two mountain families and their struggles.
— Repost by request
