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The Hatfield-McCoy Feud Historical Marker
Located at the mouth of Chloe Creek
The Dils Cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud Historic District. Colonel John Dils Jr. bought the property which included the Dils Cemetery in 1871. In addition to members of his own family, other members of the community, including the freed slaves of the Dils family, were buried there. The Dils Cemetery is believed by some to be the first integrated cemetery in Eastern Kentucky. More than 500 graves rest on the two-acre site, located at the mouth of Chloe Creek on a hill overlooking Pikeville, the county seat of Pike County. The site is currently leased from the John Dils heirs by the City of Pikeville. The cemetery is the final resting place of Randolph and Sarah McCoy and their daughter Rosanna McCoy. Frank Waller, a black man who was an aide to Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson and had served Jackson his last meal migrated to Pike County after the Civil War. He and his wife Alvindia are both buried in the cemetery. They were the parents of the noted poet Effie Waller Smith.
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