Crisp-Benhill-Houston County GaArchives Biographies.....McCoy, Olin Stewart 1869 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   OLIN STEWART McCOY. Numbered among the substantial and well-to-do residents
of Cordele is Olin Stewart McCoy, who, as proprietor of McCoy's Steam Laundry,
is conducting a lively and prosperous business. He was born, February 27, 1869,
in Houston county, Georgia, which was also the birthplace of his parents,
Meredith and Mary Emma (Blount) McCoy, neither of whom is now living. His
father, who served as a member of a company of Georgia Cavalry in the Civil war,
was for many years a merchant and farmer in Houston county, but spent his last
days in Macon, whither he settled after selling his farm. He reared eight
children, all of whom are living.

   Completing his studies in the common schools of his native county, Olin
Stewart McCoy accompanied the family to Macon, Georgia, when about nineteen
years old, and there began life for himself in a mercantile establishment. In
March, 1896, when the town of Fitzgerald was organized, in Ben Hill county, he
located in the place, and was there a resident for five years. Coming to Cordele
in 1901, Mr. McCoy was engaged in the bottling business until March, 1904, when
he purchased his present steam laundry plant, which had been here established in
1902. Under his efficient management, the laundry is being conducted most
successfully, employing about fifteen people, and being well patronized. The
laundry is now housed in a building thirty-six feet by eighty feet, and is fully
equipped with modern machinery of all the kinds required in an establishment of
this kind. The business is rapidly increasing in size and value, and in order to
meet it's demands Mr. McCoy is now considering the erection of a brick building
much larger than the present plant.

   Mr. McCoy married Mae Terry, a daughter of James J. and Ida (Parker) Terry,
natives respectively of Canada and Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. McCoy have two
children, namely: Mary Lois, born in 1903; and Olin Terry, born in 1907. Mrs.
McCoy is a member of the Baptist church, and is bringing up her children in the
same religious faith.


Additional Comments:
From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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