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- 1850 Logan Co., Va. Federal census 30th day of August 1850
HHNAMEAGESEXOCCPVPOB
383 Ephraim Hatfield 39 M Farmer $895 VA
Nancy Hatfield 37 F ..VA
Val. Hatfield 16 M ..VA
Elizabeth Hatfield 14 F ..VA
Alderson Hatfield 11 M ..VA
Ellison Hatfield 07 M ..VA
Elias Hatfield 05 M ..VA
Emma Hatfield 02 F ..VA
Bridget Hatfield 9/12 F ..VA
Ephraim Hatfield was one of the quietest men in the county, and was for a long time a Justice of the Peace, yet he was the father and grandfather of the Hatfields who were engaged in the Hatfield-McCoy feud
Ephraim Hatfield, born in 1812, was the father of the active participants in the Hatfield and McCoy feud. Because of his massive size he was best known throughout the region of the hills as "Big Eaf." He was said to have been seven feet tall and to have weighed well over three hundred pounds.
In 1826, when he was only sixteen, Big Eaf married fifteen year old Nancy Vance. Nancy was the granddaughter of Abner Vance, Sr., an Indian scout and spy on the frontier who was with the men who drove the Mingo Indians from the Guyandotte Valley in 1792. Vance was an early pioneer of Logan County. His granddaughter's marriage into the Hatfield family brought about a close and lasting affiliation between the Hatfields and the Vances. Nancy and Big Eaf had a large family of eighteen children, eight of whom died in infancy. They raised ten children including six sons. Valentine (Wall) was the oldest son, and the second boy was Anderson Hatfield, later nicknamed and better known as " Devil Anse." He was born on September 9, 1839. He is buried in the Hatfield Cemetery.
He was said to be seven feet tall and weighed over three hundred pounds.
His wife, Nancy Vance, was sister to the former Governor or North
Carolina, Zeb Vance.
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