Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....McCoy, John June 18, 1808 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Centre Township
p. 353

John McCoy was born near Richmond, Ind., June 18, 1808, the eldest son of 
Thomas and Margaret McCoy, natives of Allegheny Co., Pa. His parents were 
married in their native county, and subsequently moved to Kentucky, remaining 
there, however, but one season. In the spring of 1805 they moved to Wayne 
County, and cleared out a small farm three miles south of the present site of 
Richmond. He afterward bought land south of the first settled and remained 
there till the land sales in Cincinnati, when he bought a tract of land lying 
on Nolan's Fork, three miles southwest of Centreville. A few years later he 
entered another tract of 160 acres. Mr. McCoy died in 1856, his wife having 
preceded him in 1838. They had a family of nine children; all lived to have 
families of their own. Two only are now living---John and Morgan. John McCoy 
was married in his twentieth year, to Margaret Longwill, and soon after 
settled on wild land, erected a cabin, and began making himself a farm. He has 
been successful and now owns 240 acres of choice land, with a large brick 
residence and good farm buildings. Mrs. McCoy died in 1844. Of a family of six 
children, but one daughter is living---Margaret, who is now keeping house for 
her father.

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