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Tom Wallace

Thomas "Skunkhair Tom" Wallace (died 1887) was a resident of Mingo County, West Virginia who sided with the Hatfield family during the Hatfield-McCoy feud. A family friend of the Hatfields, he helped murder Jefferson McCoy before being arrested by Jake McCoy and Larkin McCoy. He managed to escape from jail before being murdered by the McCoy-affiliated Pinkerton agent Frank Phillips in 1887.

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