Word: pawpaws
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...knifing of a Hatfield. The youngest McCoy began to cry. Said Wall Hatfield gruffly, "I'm not going to hurt you." But next day the wounded Hatfield died. His kinsmen turned on the hostages. The bodies of Tolbert, Phamer and young Randolph McCoy were found tied to pawpaw bushes. Another time, Hatfields surrounded Old Randolph and his family in a cabin. The leader shouted: "Come out, you McCoys, an' surrender as prisoners o' war." The besieged refused; the besiegers set the cabin on fire, killed two McCoys, gave up shooting only when they found that Old Randolph...
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