Which McCoys Not

Our McCoys have no relation to the famous boxer “Kid McCoy” (a professional stage name) nor to the McCoys of “Hatfield & McCoys” fame. Nor to any of the several “Real McCoys” of rum running fame. Nor of the McCoys of Pitcairn Island resulting from the mutiny on the HMS Bounty.

To my knowledge our McCoys have no relation to any historic or contemporary McCoy families of Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, or elsewhere in the Confederate South. To my knowledge none of our McCoys owned slaves.

The reference to the discussion in the Narrative section as to the Henry Lord family daughter not being John Carlos' second wife Mary is http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/d/i/n/Michael-J-Dini-PA/GENE1-0002.html.

There is a McCoy family centered in Leeds County, ON, Canada which has a St. Lawrence County NY branch. This suggests relationship between the two McCoy families, in particular of because marriages involving Leeds County, ON, persons (namely Amos Curtis Gile and Margaret Shea). Certainly Esek McCoy's wife Mary Ann Whipple McCoy's brother Jonah Whipple lived in Leeds County, ON. This brother subsequently had a son born in Athol, Spink County, South Dakota, where the Gile family also emigrated, and so this alone can explain how our McCoys got involved with Leeds County's Gile and Shea families. See the website http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cdobie/mccoygen.htm for this lineage from this apparently unrelated Alexander McCoy family.

Another “McCoy Family Website” is http://mccoyfamily.byu.edu/. Some clan history and coats of arms are shown there. Additionally there is http://www.angelfire.com/tn2/mccoytree/index.html concerning the descendants of William McCoy and Jane Richardson. The site http://www.houseofnames.com/mccoy-family-crest advertises a list of McCoy immigrates to the US in the 18th and 19th for a fee (I have not availed myself to this). Descendants of James McCoy of Tennessee are shown at http://cjsfamily.tripod.com/mccoy.html.

Our McCoys are not related to the Oswegatchie and Chateaugay, NY, McCoy lineage (as researched by Robert McCoy). The patriarch of this family is one Archibald McCoy, whose descendants are shown at the website: http://rabinsmadre.blogspot.com/p/mccoy-lineage.html. However, one of these descendants was a John McCoy who also crossed paths with our McCoys in Leadville, CO, and had daughter Minnie and Maggie J. who is not to be confused with "our" Minnie and Maggie McCoys. Of "our" McCoys only Charles S. McCoy as stated in the McCoy Narrative.

Even in the northern NY counties enumerated above there are several apparently unrelated McCoy families in the towns Chateaugay, De Peyster, Oswegatchie, Norfolk, Ellensburg, Waddinton, and Colton, NY, although related McCoys are also in some of these same small towns. For example Mary Ann Whipple (who married Esek McCoy c1860) was from Chateaugay. As a historical note, our Mary Ann Whipple McCoy is not a direct descendant of General William Whipple Jr. who signed the Declaration of Independence and was otherwise prominent in Revolutionary War America.

The McCoys buried in the Clinton County's Ellenburg Corners Cemetery, Riverside Cemetery, Earlville Cemetery, East Side Cemetery, Maple Hill Cemetery, Morningside Cemetery, Lakeview Cemetery, are not our McCoys.

The McCoys buried in Old Mooers Cemetery and (New) Mooers Village Cemetery are our McCoys, the town and whereabouts of our McCoys.

The McCoys buried in the Franklin County's Earlville Cemetery, St. Patrick's Cemetery, Morningside Cemetery, St. Alphonsus Cemetery, Ellensburg Corners Cemetery, East Side Cemetery, Saint Mary's Cemetery and East Side Cemetery are not our McCoys.

Franklin County's Bangor Cemetery and North Bangor Cemetery are our McCoys, the town and whereabouts our McCoy families.

Unrelated McCoys are buried in St. Lawrence County: Hillcrest Cemetery, Raymondville Cemetery, Saint Mary's Cemetery, High Street Cemetery, and Saint Patrick Cemetery.

Our McCoys are buried in the Ogdensburg Cemetery (also now known as Riverside Cemetery).

The McCoys buried in Essex County NY (just south of Clinton County) are not of our McCoys.

The only McCoy I can find buried on Grand Isle is Catherine McCoy Pease; her father is likely buried there also but that fact is lost to history.

Our historic McCoy family is of the Methodist-Episcopal Church faith, with some Presbyterianism and Congregational too, and are unlikely to have married Roman Catholics given the 19th century mindset. Thus our McCoys are unlikely to be buried in a Catholic cemetery.

While our McCoys are no doubt descendants of Scotland and Northern Irish of Scottish origin certain Irish given names like Patrick and Bridget are not found in our McCoy families. Nor are there Alexanders or Archibalds or Franks or Georges or Roberts.