Comments on: Tumors May Have Fueled Hatfield-McCoy Feud

By: Regina M. Terry

Regina M. Terry — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:50:24 +0000

My father, Charley Franklin McCoy died of adrenal glad cancer. We have common ancestry with the feuding McCoys. If you are a McCoy descendent, it does not hurt to allert your family physician about the possibility of you having this disorder.

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 27 May 2011 16:36:51 +0000

Note: genetic testing for VHL is available at the request of your doctor (testing cost $313) via the Molecular Genetics Laboratory at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (formerly the Genetic Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine):

http://www.vhl.org/press/mccdna.php

By: Sally Decker

Sally Decker — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:39:54 +0000

As far as I know I’m not a relative of the McCoys, or Hatfields for that matter, however, I too have had this tumor. I had it for 10 years with no doctor in Indiana finding the problem but blaming all kinds of other things, including saying it as all in my head. When I moved to Florida in 2005 I was in the hosptial dying when they found the tumor and then later removed it at Shands Hospital. The doc. that had found it had only seen it once before and that person died. However, I never know when it will return and now knowing the symptoms I’m sure that my father and grandfather also had this tumor and no one found them in those days. Good luck to all who have it, it changes your personality and life completely. I’m now a diabetic because of this tumor.

By: Nichole McRoberts

Nichole McRoberts — Sat, 29 May 2010 21:17:20 +0000

My grandfather told me last summer that we are related to the hatfields and the mcCoys and reading about the tumors and it gave me chills. I have all of those symptoms,feels like i’m going to pass out sometimes. I get angry for know real reason. Now i see my 6yr old showing the signs. I will be checking on that.

By: maryjane howes kimball

maryjane howes kimball — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:19:57 +0000

Devil Anse Hatfield is my grand grand grandfather I was name after my great grandmother Mary Jane Hatfield Howes. My dad was
John E. Howes and he was from Sarah Ann, W.Va.

By: Elizabeth Meggs Browning, MA’54 (Nashville)

Elizabeth Meggs Browning, MA’54 (Nashville) — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:47:44 +0000

Imagine my surprise when I turned to page 24 of the Fall 2007 issue to see a picture of my husband’s grandmother and great-grandfather.

My husband, U. Grant Browning, MDiv’58, is the grandson of Betty Hatfield Caldwell and the great-grandson of [Hatfield clan patriarch] William Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield. Our daughter, Barbara Browning, BA’78, is the great-great-granddaughter of “Devil Anse.” The feud is an interesting part of our family history, but I never expected to see a connection to Vanderbilt.
Thank you for an informative article.

By: Marlene Cochran

Marlene Cochran — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:24:35 +0000

My grandmother was from the McCoy clan. I am 68 yrs. old and grew up near the K.Y. border where the fight took place. In 1963 I had a tumor removed as well as the adrenal gland. Until reading this, did not know anything about the McCoy decendants having tumors.. It almost killed me before finding out what my problem was. Surger at Duke. They had only seen 13 cases there. If you need any more information regarding this please feel free to email me. I am informing my relatives of this McCoy curse. Marlene Cochran