John McCoy Family Genealogy

Earl E. McCoy

earlemmonsmccoy@comcast.net

With the coming of retirement age one reflects upon oneself, as it is now apparent that each person is the sum of his ancestors. Like many people, I knew almost nothing particular about even my grandparents, and essentially nothing further back. Until recently, finding one's genealogy was difficult and expensive, but with the coming of the internet a vast amount of genealogy documentation is online and so easily accessible.

Consequently, slowly over years, I have researched my ancestry, and with each new discovered my interest waxed. I took notes, so to speak, in the form of text documents on my computer. These became the foundation of this website. It now includes my direct ancestry and additionally much documentation of other New England area McCoys, possibly related, that I may subsequently discover are indeed related. If not, such documentation may at least benefit other genealogy researchers.

I recognize that anyone's ancestry is equally impacted by both one's male and female lines. However, ancestry grows geometrically going backward in time, so becomes intractable quickly. Thus, like must necessarily be the norm, I have restricted my documentation primarily to my direct male McCoy surname line.

This leads with certainty to a John McCoy, married to Lucy Marble, having three children, living in South Hero, Grand Isle, VT, circa 1805-1810. Finding details concerning this John McCoy, birth date and parentage not stipulated, and death date only inferred by Lucy marrying, has been my ultimate challenge.

Now, I believe new documentation have emerged back to this John's parents, Alexander Enoch McCoy and wife Lydia Spaulding, in the Nottingham County region in southeast present day New Hampshire, in the Colonial Era. A family tree on Ancestry.com stipulates this connection and it makes logical and geographical sense.

In the Colonial Era censuses don't exist, but tombstones do. Sites like FindAGrave are a great resource. So are genealogy sites like Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org. My experiences show it is very important to ascertain married partner surnames, as that often is a strong indication as to location. Many times McCoys have married multiple times within the same nearby family.

History books concerning particular families or particular towns are a good source of early genealogy. For example, the 1883 book The History of Windham in New Hampshire (Rockingham County) 1719-1883 by Leonard Morrison; almost 1000 pages, has many references to the Alexander McCoy family starting in 1730, and Thomas and John and William and Jane McCoy and more. Over two and a half pages are devoted to the McCoy Family exclusively.

Another good reference is provided by the 1922 book History of the Town of Goffstown 1733-1920 v1 by George Plummer Hadley. Still another source for early McCoys is the book History of the Town of Antrim, New Hampshire From its Earliest Settlement to June 27, 1877 with a Brief Genealogical Record of all the Antrim Families, by Rev. W. R. Cochrane.

These histories suggest it is likely that our McCoys came over from Ulster in the 1718-1720 immigration to the Boston area, and subsequently to the Nutfield area in present day southern New Hampshire. Nutfield was renamed Windham. Sources for this claim are in the Narrative Page.

Non-McCoy surnames included are:

Married “in” surnames: Barnum, Caldwell, Kelly, King, Lord, Marble, Martin, McCollum, McLaughlin, Pendleton, Shea, Spaulding, Whipple, Wilson, and Zirndars.

Married “out” surnames: Bailey, Brankman, Bundo, Eaton, Fitch, Gile, Higbee, Hines, Holt, Lytle, McCargar, Minogue, Rich, and Wood.

There are probably at least a hundred living direct descendants of John and Lucy McCoy, but of those probably only about ten of my son's generation have the surname McCoy. In addition to my son I know of several McCoy distant cousins in Southern California. I suspect living McCoy distant cousins also live in the Buffalo, NY region. Such persons are urged to email me at earlemmonsmccoy@comcast.net.

According to ancestry.com the McCoy name means this in Irish: "Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Aodha ‘son of Aodh’, an ancient personal name meaning ‘fire’, originally the name of a pagan god. Thus it has the same origin as McGee, McKay and McKee."

The Layout

The main factual component of this website is our McCoy Family Tree on this page.

Additionall, below, are links to ten tabbed subpages are provided that qualify and expound upon our McCoy Family Tree.

The first of these is a McCoy narrative written to flesh out the actual names and dates of the various persons listed in the family tree. While the family tree is factual (as I can make it so!) some of this narrative is necessarily speculative. From time line analysis and information from newspaper clippings and photographs I have derived what I believe is an accurate interpretation of our McCoy family history, albeit with gaps and no doubt omissions.

Additionally there are links to old maps, panorama views, and land plots which I think place our family in spacial perspective. The land plots are from Beer's 1876 Maps of Franklin County: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~clinton/franklin.htm.

Other links to family related historic newspaper clippings, to family photographs or images of McCoy family, to historic documents, and finally to McCoy family tombstones. My mother's direct McCollum ancestry is provided on a separate page.

Finally there is a link to a Miscellaneous page having sections on Which McCoy Families Not?, Self Imposed Limitations, and Observations About Internet Genealogical Search.

These web pages are dated as they are work in progress; please check back to determine if a revised version exists.

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Historic Documentation

Speculation About Earlier McCoys

McCollum Ancestry

Canadian McCoys

Which McCoys Not

Blodface names of children are direct surname ancestors

Earlier Generations

Alexander McCae b1525 having son

Alexander McCae b1541 having son

Alexander McCay (1580-1630) from Argyleshire, Scotland; had son

Gilbert McCay (1625-1691) born Kirkinriolla, County Antrim, Ireland, died Tyrone, Ireland) married 1645

Alexander McCoy (1695-1750) born Bann River Valley, Ulster, emigrated to America in 1718, married

Mrs. Alexander McCoy (1689-?) having two children

John McCoy (1726-1783), married about 1744 in Windham, Rockingham, NH to

Janet Caldwell McCoy (1713-3/1790) b Ballymena, County Antrim, died Windham, NH; having nine children

Note: Caldwells are from Ballycastle, Ireland

Alexander Enoch McCoy (11/16/1744-5/24/1832) of Windham, Rockingham, NH married 1774 to

Lydia Spaulding McCoy (11/19/1743-?) Note: this line continued below

James McCoy (7/24/1746-10/21/1841)

William McCoy (3/25/1748-3/25/1838?)married

Mary Douglas Gregg McCoy (1758-?) had daughter

Elizabeth McCoy (5/13/1755-?)

John McCoy (7/14/1750-1/9/1823) served 5 years in Revolutionary War; married

Margaret Boyd McCoy (1760-1817) having four children (2nd wife Mary Hutchins Hartwell)

Hannah McCoy (3/10/1752-1790?) probably married Robert Douglass

Susanna McCoy (1752-?) married Alexander Caldwell (maybe "Susannah") having two children

Thomas McCoy (1756-?)

Janet McCoy (4/13/1760-1790?) Janet and sister Elizabeth lived together; no children

Elizabeth McCoy (7/4/1763-1790?)

Jane McCoy (1724-8/20/1780) died in Windham, NH

Note: This Alexander Enoch McCoy supposedly had a second wife Sarah "Sallie" Border McCoy (1754-1/1841) born Virginia died Tennessee; I believe this is mistaken.

Note: the above doesn't expose the family drama of our "Scot-Irish" heritage; many generations in the Bann River valley area of Ulster, then subsequent emigration in about 1718 to the Massachusetts Colony, finally residing in the southeastern area of today's New Hampshire.

Note: Even in colonial America many Alexander Enoch McCoys and John McCoys existed; much online genealogy mistakenly convolute these. The McCoys referenced here emigrated from Scotland but through many generations in Ulster, are confined to the New England area, and are not to be confused with others of the same names in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

Note: An alternative "John McCoy" possiblity is Daniel John McCoy b1784 in Windham NH; father Alexander John McCoy b1765.

First Generation

Alexander Enoch McCoy (11/16/1744-5/24/1832) born and died Windham NH; married in 1764 to

Lydia Spaulding McCoy (1743-?) born Hudson, NH, died in Windham CT [sic]

Janet Jane McCoy (6/9/1775-?)

Mary Polly McCoy Melvin (9/3/1776-?) married Hudson NH 3/24/1801 to James Melvin (1772-?)

Hannah McCoy Marshall (3/1/1778-?) married Hudson NH to Snow Marshall (1774-?)

Lydia McCoy (3/18/1780-1839) died Hudson NH married Phillip Marshall (1776-?)

Sarah McCoy Page (9/9/1781-3/1812) aka Sally; died Antrim NH

John McCoy (11/5/1784-1809) born in Windham NH; came to the Grand Isle area, married Lucy Marble.

Alexander Enoch McCoy (11/5/1786-4/4/1822) married 1810 to Rachael Robinson in Windham

note: also James Alexander McCoy these dates

James McCoy (1790-7/14/1873?) died in Windham NH; married C. Marshall (1789-?)

Note: Sarah McCoy (4/13/1784- 6/16/1864), daughter of Alexander Enoch McCoy and his 2nd wife Jane; never married (second Alexander Enoch and James too?)

Noted on rationale: In the 1790 Goffstown NH census a Joshua Martin is adjacent to Alexander McCoy. In the 1800 Nottingham NH census Charles McCoy lives near Giles and Lords. In the 1800 Goffstown NH census a Jane McCoy is listed as a Head of Household with five other persons. In the 1800 Goffstown census a John McCoy, Charles McCoy, and Thomas McCoy live among John Morrill and Joshua Martin and Samuel Martin.

Note: the only reference found to John McCoy's 1809 death comes from the Van Ancestry tree on Ancestry.com; there he is named Daniel John McCoy.

Note: In 1800 Vermont census, a John McCoy is living in Johnson VT (Franklin County, near Grand Isle), aged 26-44, with unknown wife and three children. This John is not the son of Alexander Enoch McCoy (mentioned above), and known to have died in 1809. Note: in the 1790 New Hampshire census there are two Alexander McCoys, one in Antrim, the other in Goffstown and Antrim NH. In the Goffstown census a Charles McCoy lives nearby. In Antrim a William McCoy also resides.

Note: In the 1800 New Hampshire census there is an Alexander McCoy in Windham having one son under 16 (son John being age 4); this is Alexander Enoch McCoy, of Windham, who married Lydia Spaulding. Another Alexander McCoy in Antrim, has 4 sons under 16. Additionally, the 1800 Vermont census shows a neighbor Jonah Whipple (10/22/1761-1/6/1843), born in Glocester RI but then living in Johnson VT, subsequently moved west as did the McCoy family to Franklin County NY. In particular, the granddaughter of this Jonah Whipple, Mary Ann Whipple, married the grandson of this John McCoy (that is, the son of John Carlos McCoy), Esek McCoy.

Note: Jonah Whipple and wife Hepsibeth Melvin Whipple had seven children, including son Nathan (who fathered Mary Ann Whipple McCoy) and daughter Cynthia Whipple Morrill (1797-2/10/1863) (husband Gilman Morrill 1794-3/15/1875). That daughter had a daughter Cynthia Morrill (1819-11/6/1848) who married Alphonso McCoy (1821-1895) by which produced daughter Hespia McCoy Bailey (1844-2/8/1898) and son Edwin McCoy (1846-2/9/1913). Additionally, when widowed, Alphonso McCoy married his sister-in-law Rachel Morrill (1834-11/8/1882) and had five additional children: John Gilman McCoy, Mary Emmaline McCoy, Lillian McCoy, Hattie S McCoy, Ulysses McCoy. Additionally Cynthia Whipple Morrill had another daughter Clarissa Morrill (1821-3/10/1895) who married Harrison McCoy and had sons Daniel McCoy and Gilman "Kid" McCoy.

Also John Gilman McCoy (1855-?) and wife Ida had daughter Hattie Jane McCoy (1882-?) who married 8/24/1897 Horace B. Achilles (1864-?) (both born in Potton QC); Gilmans and Achilles are both found in our McCoy ancestry.

Second Generation

John McCoy (11/5/1784-1809) lived in the vicinity Grand Isle, VT; no explicit death documentation has been found; married in 1805 to

Lucy W. Marble McCoy (1/12/1787-10/12/1859) subsequently widowed in 1809; then married Caleb Martin in 1810; died in Clinton County, NY

Sarah Sally Jane McCoy Hines (3/9/1806-1854)

Catherine McCoy Pease (1/27/1808-1/27/1829) born and died in South Hero, VT

John Carlos McCoy (8/10/1809-10/26/1893)

Note: Caleb Martin had an unknown first wife, married about 1796, had children Ruby Martin Rockwell (b1798) and another unknown daughter; Ruby likely had daughter Mariah E Rockwell Corbin (1823-1896), buried in South Hero Cemetery

Note: Lucy and Caleb married about 1810 and subsequently had the following children:

Theodorus (aka Dorus Martin, born 1810)

Walker Martin (born 1813)

Duel Martin (born 10/16/1812-2/28/1878)

Allen Martin (born 1819)

Thomas McDonough Martin (born 1821

Hester Ann Martin (born 1823)

Note on Caleb Martin's ancestry: father Caleb Martin and mother Hester Martin, in Lanesborough MA had children:

Jonah b2/25/1766

Walker b2/11/1768

Caleb (10/11/1769-7/1/1840) buried with Lucy in Clinton, NY; husband of Lucy Marble McCoy Martin born about 1785

Olive b3/28/1771

Third Generation

Sarah Sally Jane McCoy Hines (3/9/1806-1854)

Rev. Esek Hines (1799-3/4/1833) married on June 9, 1825 in South Hero, VT; no children; was a Methodist-Episcopal minister; born in Providence RI; died in Prescott, ON

Note: many Hines came from Rhode Island to found Hinsburg, Charlotte County, VT (may be relatives of Esek Hines who married Sally Jane McCoy)

Note: in 1800 census an Abel Hines (1739-1810) lived in South Hero; this may be Esek Hines' grandfather and so Esek lived within grandfather's household

Note: from Vermont Vital Statistics: Sally Hines, Death Date: 1854, Essex, Vermont, just southeast of Grand Isle; no details given

Catherine McCoy Pease (1808-1/27/1829) a.k.a "Katharine Peas" born and buried in South Hero, VT; no children; on 12/21/1826 married in Franklin VT to

Rev. Ebenezer Pease Jr. (9/9/1802-12/1/1873) Methodist-Episcopal minister; had no children but married twice more and three children on December 31, 1829 widowed Ebenezer married Sally T. Kinney in Franklin VT and subsequently married Nancy Healy

Note: Rev. Ebenezer Pease Jr, born Longmeadow, MA, is the son of Ebenezer Pease (1777-1830) and Abigail Kibbe (1771-1840) who had nine children

Note: in 1800 census Ebenezer and Ebenezer Jr lived in Georgia VT, as did two "Himes" who may actually be "Hines"

John Carlos McCoy (8/10/1809-10/26/1893) buried with second wife Mary in North Bangor Cemetery

First wife: Almira Hinds [sic] McCoy (1814-1841) burial thought Ogdensburg; likely a relative of Esek Hines [sic] but undocumented

Esek McCoy (2/1832-9/12/1889) probably named after his Aunt Sally's husband Esek

Sarah Jane McCoy Higbee (1834-8/28/1887)

James McCoy (12/17/1836-2/21/1890)

John Carlos McCoy (4/24/1841-3/23/1875) called Carlos; his speculative mother Almira Hines McCoy died on 8/8/1841 (another John Carlos)

Second wife: Mary Lord McCoy (12/1829-8/9/1882) born Quebec; married in 1847; in 1870 in Fort Covington; in 1880 in Bangor, NY

Almira Serena McCoy (7/11/1848-6/23/1882) called Serena; named after first wife

Charles S. McCoy (12/26/1852-10/29/1889)

William Esek McCoy (1854-5/9/1913) death certificate lists mother as "Mary Lord" of Quebec Canada

Clara Maud McCoy Rich (5/19/1859-1934) in the 1860s name changed from Mary Ellen McCoy as shown in 1870 federal and 1875 state censuses

Mary Louise McCoy Lytle (1866-12/31/1923) called Louise; may also be “Louisa” or “Tina”

Fourth Generation

Esek McCoy (2/1832-9/12/1889) hardware store and tinsmith in Ogdensburg, NY and Prescott, ON

Postmaster Frontier, NY from 9/20/1865 to 3/19/1867; Postmaster, Athol, Spink County, SD 2/27/1882 to 11/21/1882; in 1884 and again in 1888 purchased 1/4 sections of land in Spink County, Dakota Territory; accompanied only by sister Almira Serena and son Melvin; died in Ogdensburg

Mary Ann Whipple McCoy (10/13/1838-2/2/1923) both buried Ogdensburg NY; married about 1860; said to be born in Chataqua, NY; at death lived at 2523 Burling, Chicago with niece Martha Whipple

John McCoy (5/3/1862-5/1/1913) born Prescott, ON

Esek McCoy Jr. (7/7/1864-11/19/1918) unmarried; born Prescott ON

Louisa McCoy Gile (9/1867-3/24/1889) born in and died-buried in Ogdensburg NY

Henry McCoy (1872) died same day born

Melvin McCoy (4/10/1875-4/2/1921) born Prescott ON; died in Denver CO; buried unmarked in Fairmount Cemetery, Denver

Note on Mary Ann Whipple's family:

Nathan Melvin Whipple (b. Abt. 1797, Gilmanton, Belknap, New Hampshire; d. 2/22/1871, Chateaugay, NY)

Rachel Farquhar, his wife, b. Abt 1815, Scotland, d. 8/1/1875, Chateaugay, NY

Mary Ann Whipple McCoy, b. 1838, Chateaugay, NY, d. 1923, Chicago; Esek McCoy's wife

Robert Farquhar Whipple, Reverend, b. 2 Apr 1840, Chateaugay, NY, d. 10 Jan 1914, Brockport, NY

Jonah Abner Whipple, b. 28 Jan 1842, Chateaugay, NY, d. 10 Mar 1922, Leeds, Ontario, Canada

George Whipple, b. Abt 1842, Chateaugay, NY, d. Aft 22 Jun 1870, Chateaugay, NY

Nathan Melvin Whipple, b. 1844, Chateaugay, NY, d. 1890, Malone, NY

William Wallace Whipple, b. Abt 1846, Chateaugay, NY, d. 23 Feb 1923, Niagara, NY

Rachel M. Whipple, b. Jul 1848, Chateaugay, NY, d. May 1927, Long Beach, CA

Sarah Jane McCoy Higbee (1834-8/28/1887) all buried in Ogdensburg Cemetery; firm of Higbee & McCoy dissolved by mutual consent March 6, 1871; born Clinton, NY; married

in Prescott, ON in 1856 to; died in Ogdensburg of Phthisis (meaning "wasted away")

Stephen H. Higbee (2/1832-1903) lived in Oswegatchie, then Ogdensburg, NY

Henrietta J. Higbee (7/11/1857-1/19/1874) aged 16 yrs, 8 mos, 8 days

Allie Higbee (5/5/1861-10/11/1861) aged 5 mos, 6 days

John H. Higbee (1868-7/8/1898) never married, buried Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto; also may be "Henry E. J. Higbee"

James McCoy (12/17/1836–2/21/1890) Most of these people are buried in Old Mooers Cemetery

Isabelle Wilson McCoy (3/1/1828-12/17/1915 born Scotland; married 6/7/185

Isabella McCoy Brankman (3/19/1859-10/6/1904) in 1883 married

William D. Brankman (1853-?) her husband, and children

Bella Louise Brankman Spinks (1884-1966) born in Canada; supposedly buried in Mooers, NY; married

Charles Spinks (1885-5/15/1919) a widower; married on 1/4/1917 in Plattsburgh, NY, RC ceremony; salesman

Maggie May Brankman (5/15/1885-1906) born in Ontario

Hazel Almira Brankman Cook (7/17/1887-12/17/1979) in 1940 census divorced; stenographer with law office; living with Aunt Louise

Marion Francis Cook (1890-?) married on 11/14/1918 to "Almyra Hazel Brankman"; he a "intelligence officer USA"

Almira "Mira" McCoy Fitch (1864-1940)

Carlos McCoy (1866-9/29/1897) of McCoy & Fitch store (1880 census implies born 1866; tombstone implies born 1876)

Margaret “Maggie” McCoy (1868-10/27/1877) buried Hillside Cemetery, Hinchinbrooke, Quebec

John Carlos McCoy (4/24/1841-3/23/1875) called Carlos; lived Oswegatchie, NY; of Higbee & McCoy firm; also McCoy & Fay boots and shoes

Margaret Shea McCoy (1845-12/17/1919) called "Maggie"; married 8/1862 born in Port Elmsley, North Leeds County, ON; parents from Ireland

Minnie Alice McCoy Minogue (1865-1943) died Schenectady, NY

Sarah Jane McCoy Wood (8/1868-5/19/1949) sometimes called Sadie

Anna May McCoy McCargar (9/5/1870-10/31/1937) sometimes called May

James Carlos McCoy (5/2/1873-8/26/1952)

Note on Margaret Shea's family: Margaret is one of six children of John and Mary Shea, of Port Elmsley, just west of Smith Falls, Ontario CA.

Almira Serena McCoy (7/11/1848-6/23/1882) died in Dakota Territory but buried in Ogdensburg Cemetery

Apparently lived with the Stephen Higbee family; went to SD with brother Esek and his son Melvin

Charles S. McCoy (12/26/1852-10/29/1889) Buried alongside parents; died in Canon City CO while enroute from Leadsville, CO, of Brights Disease. Railroad Station Agent; never married.

William Esek McCoy (1854–5/9/1913) A station agent for the NY, NH & H railroad; buried North Bangor Cemetery, Franklin County NY; in 1887 they lived in Vernon, CT; in 1900 census lived in Franklin, NY; in 1910 census they lived in Suffolk MA; died in Boston, 229 W. Seldon St

first wife Hattie M. King McCoy (1859-5/29/1885) married 2/17/1879

Hazel M. McCoy (3/25/1885-9/3/1885) Aged 5 Mos. 7 Days

second wife Hannah Barnum McCoy (1855–10/1/1907) died in Boston of TB

Edith L. McCoy Holt (1/1889-?) born in North Bangor, NY

Charles William McCoy (5/17/1890-1942

third wife Hattie E. Rich McCoy (1866-?) married 10/24/1911 in Malone, NY; likely widow of Byron Rich of Malone; in 1920 census shown widowed again and living with cousin in Malone

Clara Maud McCoy Rich (5/19/1859-1934) originally Ellen Mary McCoy; in 1880/1900 census in Bangor without children; married 1879; died Springfield MA

Franklin D. Rich (11/23/1855-6/6/1915) born in Bangor, NY; died of Brights Disease in Springfield MA; buried in Bangor NY; occupation is chef; in 1880 and 1900 census lived in North Bangor, NY as insurance agent; in 1930 census Clara lived in Springfield MA with Belle Lytle (age 37); never a newspaper or census indication of any children

Mary Louise McCoy Lytle (1866-12/31/1923) Called Louise; moved to Springfield MA July 1904; married in October 1887

Frederick D. Lytle (6/8/1862-1897) buried North Bangor Cemetery; of Lytle Brothers store of North Bangor, NY

Belle Lytle (5/4/1891-12/12/1970) lived in Franklin NY; in 1940 census 199 Belmont Ave Springfield, MA unmarried; in 1920 census living in Springfield with mother Mary L. Lytle and Aunt Clara Rich; in 1900 census living with mother in Bangor, NY

Fifth Generation

Minnie Alice McCoy Minogue (1865-10/16/1941) Schenectady, NY, married 7/15/1896 to

Michael Torpey Minogue (1861-7/24/1923) her husband; merchant grocer; both buried in Park View Cemetery

Edith Minogue daughter died in infancy

Blanche Minogue Camp (7/3/1897-about 1959) their daughter; married Joseph Camp

Maggie Minogue (1/23/1899-?)

Carlos Edward Minogue (10/31/1900-1966) their son; died in San Diego

Vera Iverson Minogue (1900-?) Carlos Minogue's wife

Caroll Minogue (1929-living)

Marylyn Minogue (1933-living)

Muriel Minogue Vail (1939-living) married to

Jessie Vail (1935-living)

Debbie Vail Schneiderwind (1959-living) Jessie's daughter

Sarah Jane McCoy Wood (8/1868-5/19/1949) sometimes called Sadie; married 10/3/1890 to

Charles A. Wood (4/1870-8/20/1950) records clerk; lived at 18 Turner Place, Albany in 1940 and Yonkers, NY

Stanley M. Wood (2/3/1893-2/10/1916) their son; all three buried in Graceland Cemetery, Albany

Anna May McCoy McCargar (9/5/1870-10/31/1937) 112 Isabella St. Ogdensburg; called May; married 8/16/1893 to

Delbert C. McCargar (6/17/1867-11/1932); buried Ogdensburg, NY

Rhoda M. McCargar Burton (9/17/1910-6/4/1995) married and buried with

Charles A. Burton (6/26/1906-6/20/1992) of Huntington, L.I.; 1940 census in Sea Cliff, NY; buried East Hillside Cemetery, Glen Head, NY

Helen M. McCargar Ryan (1914-?) school teacher in Sea Cliff, L.I. married

Frank H. Ryan (1911-?)

James Carlos McCoy (5/2/1873-8/26/1952) lived in Rensselaer, NY bookkeeper, in 1920 at 210 S Pearl St, Albany a widow; on 10/14/1894 married

Grace May Pendleton McCoy (4/30/1878-?) his wife (died between 1910 and 1918); born in MA

Margaret May McCoy (8/9/1895-2/29/1984) apparently never married

Carlos James McCoy (7/24/1897-5/20/1906) drowned in Erie Canal at age 8, buried in Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, NY

Jessie Cornelia McCoy Synder (7/5/1899-12/31/1985) died in Broward County FL; prior to 1920 married

William Curtis Synder (1898-?) having three children

Frederick Jewett McCoy (12/20/1902-3/1/1980) social security death index has his birth on 12/24/1902

Note: James and daughter Margaret buried in Graceland Cemetery, Albany. Grace Pendelton McCoy's parents were Harry L. Pendelton and Jessie Jones.

Almira "Mira" McCoy Fitch (2/24/1864-12/23/1940) of McCoy & Fitch store/business; buried in Mooers Village Cemetery (New)

George Lucias Fitch (1866-1944) born in Michigan; married 5/7/1890 in Mooers, NY; was mail carrier

Isabella Daily Fitch Wilson (12/7/1892-3/1/1973) married on June 21, 1919 in Mooers, NY, to

Walter Gilbert Wilson (four years younger) was insurance salesman

Helen Joyce Wilson Sellers (1921-living) was information clerk at hospital

Marjorie Ann Wilson Norcross (1927-?)

Roger Fitch Wilson (1/2/1929-6/1983)

Craig Wilson (?-living)

Allen Baxter Wilson (1934-?

James Carlos Fitch (4/30/1895-7/1986) said to be an aviator in AEF WWI; married in 1923 to

Marguerite Francois Fitch (4/20/1904-11/22/1995) in 1940 lived in Schenectady

Sandra M. Fitch (1937-?) twice married; second to Sherman Kent; one son

Helen Almira Fitch (5/02/1899-8/04/1899) infant daughter buried in Old Mooers Cemetery

Katherine Ellen Fitch Watson (1905-1999) In 1940 census a clerk/typist at Physicians Hospital, Plattsburgh, NY; married 1953 to

Rev. William C. Watson (1890-?) of Cold Springs, ON

Carlos McCoy (1866-9/29/1897) of McCoy & Fitch store in Mooers, NY; son of James McCoy; never married; died of pneumonia

Carlos had polio as a child and was confined to a wheelchair; he became a tinsmith and later took over the family plumbing business when his father died.

John McCoy (5/3/1862-5/1/1913) apparently lived in Chicago from 1889; 542 E. Division St; also 102 Delaware St; bought land in Baldwin County from Chicago man apparently to farm, then moved to Fairhope AL, commuted weekly to Mobile to metal worker job, died in industrial accident

Sarah Ellen Kelly McCoy (5/6/1864-10/27/1945) both buried in Fairhope Colony Cemetery, Fairhope AL, married 12/19/1894 in Mount Pleasant, Isabella County, Michigan

John McCoy Jr. (1/10/1896-1/15/1896) buried Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum

Clarence McCoy (3/16/1897-2/11/1990) born Chicago (added middle name “Earl”)

Mary McCoy (9/6/1902-9/1978) born Chicago, buried Fairhope AL; never married

Note on Sarah E. Kelly's family:

William John Kelly (1833 in Ireland-before 1910) had two wives; died in DePeyster, St. Lawrence County, NY

Catherine Coons Kelly (1840-1874) first wife

William John Kelly (1861-1933) married Nellie V. Decker (1887-1952)

Nancy Jane Kelly McIntosh (1862-1953) married Hugh McIntosh (1855-1918)

Sarah Ellen Kelly McCoy (5/6/1864-10/27/1945) John McCoy's wife

Mary E. Kelly (1867-?) married Thomas Townsend

Josephine Kelly Townsend (9/1869-1937) married Alonzo Townsend (1859-1915)

Lydia Thompson Kelly (1835-?) second wife

R. James Kelly (1876-1/25/1895)

Fanny L. Kelly (2/1878-1918) married Monroe Almon Russell (11/22/1877-8/1972)

Esek McCoy Jr. (7/7/1864-11/19/1918) unmarried; censuses list him as elevator operator/janitor; had Brights Disease

Melvin McCoy (4/10/1875-4/2/1921) Lived mostly in northern Wyoming; salesman; Postmaster in Nahant, SD from 11/10/1905-1/22/1910; 1910 in Ranchester, Sheridan County, WY; 1920 Fremont, WY; died in Denver CO; married June 6, 1900 in Newcastle, Weston County, WY to

first wife: Ethel May McLauglin McCoy (7/29/1880-3/17/1968) of Kansas City MO; born Rooks, KS; she divorced Melvin in April 1913 on grounds of desertion; when widowed she lived near Rockford, IL and subsequently in Chula Vista, CA.

Viola Rae McCoy (1/4/1900-5/4/1972) called Rae

Leola Grace McCoy (1902-1903)

William Esek McCoy (1/23/1903-9/28/1962) called Esek

Delbert Leroy Scott McCoy (11/25/1915-4/27/1970) called Leroy; mother was Fern Bray Scot

second wife: Fern Bray Scott McCoy (5/1899-10/9/1918) married on 6/7/1918; Fern Bray had previously married Charles R. Scott; was mother of Delbert Leroy Scott McCoy born earlier; she used name Ethel Scott; note she died four months into her marriage to Melvin. “The wedding of Mrs. Ethel Scott and Mr. Melvin McCoy took place on Thursday evening immediately following the ceremony which united Viola Rae McCoy and William Arthur Eaton” in Riverton Chronicle Friday, June 7, 1918.

Louisa McCoy Gile (9/1867-3/24/1889) born, died and buried in Ogdensburg, NY; in 1885 SD territorial census lived with husband at John Gile residence

Amos Curtis Gile (3/6/1865-2/27/1956) of Leeds County, ON; subsequently married again; what role he played in daughter Grace's life unknown; (their early married life was in Sioux City, IA or Sioux Falls SD)

Grace Eva Gile Bundo (7/31/1885-2/8/1929) born in Athol, SD; died in Lake Villa, IL; raised in Chicago by grandmother Mary Ann Whipple McCoy; married

Theodore H. Bundo (10/26/1884-1/1/1934) had daughter (Grace's death certificate states 11/2/1884-9/2/1929; buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Alsip, IL

Florence M. Bundo Wetmore (5/2/1906-2/21/1993) their daughter, who married

Dale Wetmore (they had children Robert and Muriel)

Note: Amos Curtis Gile married Lulu Redell (1879-?) in Chicago on Jan 14, 1907; lived in Chicago in 1920; lived at 6701 Sunset Blvd LA in 1930; died in Los Angles CA in 1956. Lulu's first husband's surname was Riedel.

Charles William McCoy (5/17/1890-1942) in 1920 lived in Suffolk, MA with father and sister Edith; in 1930 living at 752 Laurel St, Southport, Chemung County, NY with wife; listed as Draftsman of Fire Apparatus; in 1940 living in 2009 Hertel Ave, Buffalo, Erie County, NY. Buried in Elmlawn Cemetery, Kenmore, Erie County, NY; in 1917 lived at 162 Allen St Buffalo; born in N. Bangor

Helen R. Colton McCoy (2/17/1903-1/1975) born in Pennsylvania

Jean McCoy Coon (1926-1982) daughter; 1953 graduate of Syracuse Univ Law; was Asst. State Solicitor General; died in Ballston Spa, NY; a Howard Coon (3/7/1904-3/1973) also died Ballston Spa, NY

Alfred C. McCoy (5/23/1929-7/1979) died in Buffalo, NY

William McCoy (1931-?) a William B. McCoy was born on August 24, 1931 and passed away in Rifton NY on Thursday, February 20, 2003; Social Security number indicates New York

Nancy McCoy (1936-?) maybe this is Nancy McCoy Duncan, State University of New York; School: North High School Syracuse, NY, 1951-1955; husband James Duncan

Edith L. McCoy Holt (1/1889-1997?) was a school teacher; married 5/21/1913 in Boston to

John B. Holt (1889-10/29/1979?) of Weld, ME; lived in Wayland, MA in 1940; was a lawyer

Betty Bartlett Holt Doremus (10/13/1916-?) married 5/28/1941

Robert Bernard Doremus (5/19/1915-8/1/1982) died Madison County, WS

John B. Holt Jr. (1929-?)

Sixth Generation

Clarence Earl McCoy (3/16/1897-2/11/1990) born in Chicago; ashes scattered

Bess Irene McCollum McCoy (9/25/1903-3/3/1989) born La Crosse, Wisconsin; ashes scattered

Joan McCoy Brown (10/20/1932-living) born Hinsdale IL, married

Bruce Marrs Brown (11/23/1930-living); have four children; divorced, subsequently Joan married L. Stanley Crane

John Bruce McCoy (11/23/1938-living) born Hinsdale IL fraternal twin of Earl; one daughter

Earl Emmons McCoy (11/23/1938-living) born Hinsdale, IL fraternal twin of John; one son

Note on Bess Irene McCollum's family: see the separate page link on the main page.

Viola Rae McCoy Cannon (1/4/1900-5/4/1972) called Rae

first husband: William Arthur Eaton (11/4/1896-?) married 6/7/1918; truck driver in 1920 census; divorced in Denver CO on 10/29/1923 no children

second husband: Bert B. Bailey (1903-1971) married 11/1/1923 in Littleton CO; Viola Rae divorced Bert in 1925

third husband: Alfred Tertius Wisdom (1/23/1885-10/25/1943) born Woodchurch, Kent, England, immigrated 4/9/1892; married 5/13/1926; lived in NYC; in 1930 and 1940 census without children; was Village Inn Cafeteria manager; in 1940 lived at 65 Park Terrace, NYC with "Rae" as Food Supervisor; WWI Draft Registration has him working in Chicago

fourth husband: Lewis Edward Soldan (7/31/1886-6/14/1956) married Rae prior to 1948; buried in Santa Barbara Cemetery

fifth husband: Grover Cleveland Cannon (2/9/1894-9/8/1978) born Oklahoma; married Jan 4, 1964; Viola Rae buried in Santa Barbara Cemetery CA

Note: For all Viola Rae's marriages she had no children

William Esek McCoy (1/23/1903-9/28/1962) born in Spearfish, SD. Both buried in San Diego, CA; owned McCoy's Ready Mix Concrete Company, El Cajon, CA

Bessie Zirndars McCoy (4/7/1900-10/4/1962) from Wisconsin; married 9/6/1923 in Littleton CO; both buried in San Diego County, CA

Shirley Mae McCoy Kelly (8/10/1931-?) born in Illinois; married 8/10/1962 and divorced in 3/1973

Albert Joseph Kelly (3/19/1931-2/8/2005) no children with his first wife Shirley

Delbert Leroy Scott McCoy (11/25/1915-4/27/1970) called Leroy; born Greeley, CO; died Los Angeles; draftsman, milling machine factory; married

Florence Louise Reynolds McCoy (2/10/1923-3/9/2005) having sons

John Scott McCoy (6/21/1945-9/19/2009) buried in Glen Abbey

Thomas Eden McCoy (4/23/1954-6/8/2003) born in Bryn Mawr, PA; died in San Dimas, CA; ham radio KN6KK; buried in Glen Abbey Memorial Park

Alfred C. "Bud" McCoy (5/23/1929-7/1979) died in Buffalo, NY

Lorraine M. Uhl McCoy (12/5/1930-7/31/2011) Alfred's wife, both in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Kenmore, Erie County, NY

Michael McCoy (wife Jill)

Daniel E. McCoy (12/7/1952-11/24/2014) buried in Lancaster Rural Cemetery,

Judith Cherven McCoy, (1/24/1954-living) Daniel's wife

Michael Ryan McCoy (6/15/1977-living)

Julie Pikcilingis McCoy (12/17/1981-living) Michael's wife- 2 children

Matthew McCoy (12/13/78-living)

Nicole Kryman McCoy (2/19/1981-living) Matthew's wife- 3 children

Susan McCoy Hoyt (husband Jeffrey)

Barbara McCoy Shea (husband Thomas)

Carol McCoy Kirby (husband Kevin)

Sally McCoy Brunetto (husband Louis)

Frederick Jewett McCoy (12/20/1902-3/1/1980) might have died in Boonton, NJ; in 1920 census on board USS Galveston as Seaman; he is in no subsequent census; parents at 210 S. Pearl St, Albany, NY.

Note: In 1940 census there is a Fred McCoy b1901/1902 construction laborer living in Rome, Oneida County, NY wife Mary and daughter Mildred

Note: in year 2000 a Fred J McCoy, 653 Lisbon Ave, Buffalo, NY 14228; likely a son

Seventh Generation

Joan McCoy (10/20/1932-living) reverted to maiden name; has sons Douglas and Steven and daughters Melissa and Sharon; numerous grandchildren

John Bruce McCoy (11/23/1938-living) has daughter Johna and two grandchildren (wife Suad)

Earl Emmons McCoy (11/23/1938-living) has son Earl Spencer McCoy (wife Anita)

John Scott McCoy (6/21/1945-9/19/2009) buried in Glen Abbey; sixth grade school teacher for 32 years in San Diego; died of pancreatic cancer

first wife Loreen Gaye Sheggeby McCoy (7/28/1945-living) married 6/14/1969; children

Kristen J. McCoy b1971

Korin J. McCoy b1972

Michael Lynn McCoy b1973

second wife Gale A. Swan McCoy (1953-living) married 12/4/1982; children

Jennifer Ann McCoy b1984

John Patrick McCoy b1985

Randall K. McCoy b1992

Alfred C. McCoy (5/23/1929-7/1979) (son of Charles William McCoy) has living children or grandchildren

William McCoy (1931-?) (son of Charles William McCoy) might have living children or grandchildren

Frederick Jewett McCoy (12/20/1902-3/1/1980) (son of James Carlos McCoy) might having living children or grandchildren