sheriff's office. However, the day before the shooting at Mohawk, Sheriff Hatfield left the county for Craig Healing Springs in Virginia. (p 67, Howard B. Lee, Bloodletting in Appalachia) Both men arrived in Welch on August 1, 1921, unarmed and accompanied by their wives. Several Baldwin–Felts men shot them on the McDowell County Courthouse steps. Hit in the arm, and three or four times in the chest, Hatfield died instantly. Chambers was shot several more times, as his wife tried to defend him, and finished off with a bullet in the head by Charles Lively. None of the Baldwin-Felts detectives was ever convicted of Hatfield's assassination: they claimed they had acted "in self-defense". To this day, the bullet marks from the assassins are visible on the sandstone stairs of the courthouse. There was an outpouring of grief for the fallen local heroes at the funeral, which was attended by at least 3,000 people, and conducted with full honors from the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Redmen (he was a member of all of these organizations). Legacy Director John Sayles' Academy Award-nominated 1987 film Matewan starred David Strathairn in the role of Hatfield. West Virginia: A Film History mistakenly identifies him as Albert Sidney Hatfield, as well as claiming that he was not related to "Devil Anse" Hatfield. This may be because of rumours that he was illegitimate, and so possibly not of Hatfield descent. See also Charles Lively (labor spy) List of worker deaths in United States labor disputes References Further reading David Alan Corbin (ed.), Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars, PM Press, Oakland CA, 2011, Desmond Kilkeary, The Hatfields and the Baldwin-Felts Joe Roxby, '"Two Gun" Sid Hatfield' Lon Savage, Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920–21, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 1990, West Virginia Archives & History, On This Day in West Virginia History...: The Matewan Massacre Matewan at the Internet Movie Database External links West Virginia Mine Wars Museum independent history museum covering the Mine Wars Era in Matewan, WV. Building was Chambers Hardware in 1920, site of the Battle of Matewan. West Virginia: A Film History, including archive film footage of Sid Hatfield 1900 Census for Pike Co., KY, 0104 Magisterial District 5, Blackberry Precinct, listing family of Jacob and Rebecca Hatfield People from Pike County, Kentucky People from Matewan, West Virginia 1890s