Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: James Campbell McCOY 

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Transcribed and submitted by Ed Johnson, <EDEAJ @aol.com>, 1998.
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JAMES CAMPBELL McCOY - a merchant of Falling Spring, whose business card
elsewhere appears, was born in Ohio, February 2, 1838, but was a son of
natives of Greenbrier County, and has lived here since his infancy.
Andrew and Emeline (MAYS) McCOY were his parents.  They returned to
Greenbrier County in 1840, and his mother died here in 1844, his father
lives in the county still.  The wife of James C. McCOY, whom he wedded
in Brownstown, Greenbrier County, February 15, 1865, was Eliza Jane BROWN,
born in this county, at Brownstown, July 9, 1840.  George and Julia Ann
(ROGERS) BROWN, residents in this county, are her parents, her father born
in Greenbrier County in 1812, and her mother in 1819.  Erminie Florence,
born June 12, 1866, died August 9, 1867, was the first born child of Mr.
and Mrs. McCOY.  In their home are:  Lena Brown, born July 7, 1868;
John George, May 10, 1870;  Henry Calvin, May 27, 1872;  Andrew Albert,
March 27, 1874;  Howard Lee, May 12, 1876;  Lloyd Lepps, October 27, 1878;
Ada Rogers, September 18, 1880.  James C. McCOY enlisted in March, 1863,
in the Confederate service, Greenbrier Cavalry, and took part in the battle
of Winchester and several heavy skirmishes, and was then furloughed on
account of sickness, and the war closed before his recovery.  Until 1881 he
was engaged in farming.  His postoffice address at Falling Spring.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.