Roseanna McCoy

Roseanna McCoy was a daughter of Randolph McCoy whose relationship with Johnse Hatfield became one of the best-known personal stories attached to the Hatfield–McCoy feud. The surviving record places this person within the historical events represented in Ann Rinaldi’s fiction.

Historical fiction may reconstruct private conversations, motives and emotional responses that sources do not preserve. The relationship is included because the person is portrayed under a real historical identity, while invented details should not be treated as documentary biography.