James H. McCoy, the oldest son of Randall and Sarah, was the last living McCoy feudist before his death in 1929. He was a peacemaker in the feud and tried to talk Frank Phillips out of killing Jim Vance and Bill Dempsey. In 1928, James and Tennis Hatfield, the youngest son of Devil Anse, met in Pikeville, Kentucky, and called a formal truce between the families. Floyd McCoy, a son of Randall and Sarah, had dinner with his brothers Tolbert, Pharmer, and Randolph Jr. after their arrest for stabbing and shooting Ellison Hatfield in 1882. The next day, Floyd witnessed his brothers being captured by Wall Hatfield and taken to West Virginia. Wall said that if Ellison died, the McCoy brothers would be killed.