Ran’l McCoy was 64 years old when Ellison Mounts was hanged in February, 1890. He lived another twenty-four years, but most of the feud writers cover that quarter century in a paragraph or less. None of the writers has a single word about one of the most significant phases of Ran’l’s life—his 1899 marriage to an eighteen-year-old girl, the child of that marriage and the bitter divorce that ended the marriage. Also missing is his testimony in the 1899 murder trial of Johnse Hatfield.
This essay, in its entirety, can be read in my book, “Lies, Damned Lies, and Feud Tales.” https://www.amazon.com/dp/1977716814/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511238586&sr=1-1&keywords=Lies%2C+Damned+Lies%2C+and+Feud+Tales