James S. McCoy Biography   Hancock County, WV
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Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the 
Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia".  
Compiled and Written by:
J.H. Newton,  G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle
Published by:
J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA.

                Biographical Sketches of Hancock County:
James S. McCoy:
    was born in 1838 in now Hancock County, West Virginia.  He followed 
steam  boating as his vocation for a number of years, and for the last 
five years he has run the ferry at New Lexington.  He is the father of 
five children, two sons and three daughters.