Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Margaret MCCOY ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Mrs. James McCoy Mrs. Margaret McCoy died at her home in this city, Thursday, Dec. 2, 1897, aged 74 years. She had been quite feeble for some time and her death was not unexpected. She was born in Ireland, Jan. 1, 1823, and was married to Mr. James McCoy, who still survives her, in the city of Dublin, Ireland, in 1848. They came to Wisconsin in the same year purchasing a farm in Green County, where they resided until 1890, when they removed to this city Mrs. McCoy was a good, earnest Christian woman, loved and respected by all who knew her and was every ready and willing to lend a helping hand to those in distress. She was always cheerful in her home, diffusing through her family a truly Christian spirit and always had a motherly love and care for her children, who have all gone out in the battle of life. She leaves seven sons and one daughter, Charles and wife, of Minneapolis; Edward, of South Dakota; Robert and wife, and Joseph and wife, of Lakeland, Minn., John and wife, of New Richmond, Wis., and Mrs. Mary Burnham attended the funeral, while the two youngest boys, George and Arthur who reside in Napavine, Wash., were unable to be present. The funeral services were held at the house Sunday at 1 o’clock, Rev. Short of the Congregational officiating. Interment in the Evansville cemetery. December 9, 1897, p. 1, col. 2, Evansville Review, Evansville, Wisconsin The children of the McCoys are listed as Mary (married Charles Burnham); Charles, Edward, Robert, Joseph, John, George, Arthur The following McCoys are listed as buried in Maple Hill in the index prepared by Bernie Farmer in 1990: Buried in the Campbell addition, block 1, lot 53: Robert McCoy “Father” born 1892, died July 15, 1944 Pearl McCoy “Mother” born, 1895, died April 10, 1959, VFW Auxiliary Robert Edward, son of Robert, & V. born and died 1944 Kenneth McCoy, “son” born 1917, died Nove. 24, 1919 George L. McCoy, born 1846, died Nov. 7, 1923, “Civil War, Pvt. Company H. 42 Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers Mary Etta McCoy, born 1856, died June 26, 1942 Pliny McCoy, born 1882, died Dec. 20, 1950 Buried in the Campbell addition, block 8, lot 22 Elmer B. Mccoy, born 1879, died May 19, 1937 Buried in the Sawtelle addition, Block 3, lot 17 Margaret McCoy, born Jan. 1, 1823, died Dec. 2, 1897 James McCoy, born June 23, 1821, died November 28, 1898