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McCoy family history information
McCoy family - General
MCCOY. Daniel, Green, Jesse, John "Devil/Padre", John, Joseph, Prospect,
Samuel.
[In addition to diverse sources, the following was compiled in large part by
analysis of articles in the History of Gonzales County Texas by Linda Alford and
Jackie Pascha and data supplied by May Thompson Yoss leakey@sig.net]
Like many DeWitt Colonists including founders Green DeWitt and James Kerr and
the author's (see above) five related Burket, Kent and Zumwalt families, the McCoy families
were pioneers in the Missouri Territory of Upper Louisiana while it was still or
had just been released from Spain.
The McCoys begin with John (1754-1821) and Martha Humphrey McCoy who had children Daniel,
Samuel, John McCoy Sr., Catherine, Sarah, Hester, Margaret, and
James. Daniel McCoy (b. aft 1762, bef 1774 in VA or KY; d. 1844; m. Rachel
Zumwalt in 1797 in HarrisonCo, KY, daughter of Johann Henrich and Mary Catherine
Hiatt Zumwalt), along with brothers John McCoy Sr. (b. abt 1771 PA?; d. 30 Aug
1836 Victoria Co, TX) and Joseph Hill McCoy, came to the Missouri Territory in
1797 with Daniel's father-in-law Henry Zumwalt and related Zumwalt pioneers from
Kentucky. Daniel and Rachel Zumwalt had children John (b. abt 1754), Frances,
Sarah, Nancy, Mahala, Margaret, Joseph and Elizabeth.
Texian pioneer Frank W. Johnson History of Texas and Texans, who was from the
same area of Missouri and knew Green DeWitt well relates:
"about the middle or latter part of the fall [1826] three families, the Messrs.
McCoy, arrived and encamped near Mr. Heddy's [between Harrisburg and San Felipe
de Austin]. They, like myself, were from Missouri. We soon formed an
acquaintance and, as we were from the same state, formed a sort of brotherhood.
They, however, intended going to DeWitt's colony, and had only stopped for the
season, believing that provisions could be more readily procured in Austin's
than DeWitt's colony. The winter proved to be a mild and dry one, until the
latter part and early spring, when we had frequent and heavy rains, which made
the streams high and the roads almost impassable........ In the spring of this
year, 1827, being invited and solicited by the Messrs. McCoy to accompany them
to DeWitt's colony, and, being desirous to see more of the country, though still
subject to chill and fever, I accepted the invitation. Our first day's travel
brought us to San Bernard, some fifteen miles distant from San Felipe de Austin,
and on what is known as the Atascosito road. From thence we proceeded to the
Colorado, which stream we crossed above the road. The weather, though cloudy,
with an occasional shower, was quite pleasant, and we pursued our journey
without accident or incident until invited and solicited by the Messrs. McCoy to
accompany them to DeWitt's colony, and, being desirous to see more of the
country, though still subject to chill and fever, I accepted the invitation. Our
first day's travel brought us to San Bernard, some fifteen miles distant from
San Felipe de Austin, and on what is known as the Atascosito road. From thence
we proceeded to the Colorado, which stream we crossed above the road. The
weather, though cloudy, with an occasional shower, was quite pleasant, and we
pursued our journey without accident or incident until within some ten miles of
DeWitt's station on the La Baca. Though the day had been fair it became cloudy
at nightfall. We had built a large log fire and got our suppers; soon after we
discovered a portentous cloud in the northwest, and occasional peals of
thunder---it had been lightening in the north for some time before we heard the
thunder. The cloud formed rapidly, and soon darkened the heavens, and
sent---down torrents of rain, So heavy was the rain that it not only wet us to
the skin, notwithstanding we were wrapped in our blankets, but extinguished our
fire. After an hour or two the rain ceased and the clouds broke up. The storm
was accompanied by a heavy blow from the DeWitt's station on the La Baca River.
Six McCoy's received land grants in the DeWitt Colony.
Land records indicate a
John McCoy Sr. (John "Devil/Padre" McCoy) arrived married 9 Mar 1827 with family
of 4,
Joseph McCoy arrived married 29 Jan 1829 with family of 7 (son of John McCoy
Sr., by census he was in the colony in 1828),
another John McCoy (believed son of John McCoy Sr.) arrived married 9 Mar 1827
with family of 4,
Jesse McCoy (son of John McCoy Sr.) arrived single 9 Mar 1827,
Samuel McCoy (son of John McCoy Sr.) arrived single 4 Jan 1829,
Daniel McCoy arrived married 20 Mar 1830
and Joseph McCoy Jr. arrived single 20 Mar 1830.
Grants to father John Sr. and sons Joseph and Jesse were next to each other
southeast of the Gonzales town tract on the east bank of the Guadalupe River
near the current Gonzales-DeWitt Co line while those to putative brothers, John
and Samuel McCoy, were further south on the east bank in current DeWitt Co. The
grant to Daniel McCoy was on Peach Creek between Gonzales and the Fayette Co
line while that to Joseph McCoy Jr. was further east in current Fayette Co
northeast of current Waelder. Relation to the John "Padre" McCoy clan of Joseph
McCoy Jr. and Daniel McCoy, who list the same arrival date in land grant
records, is unclear, but they are thought to be a father and son pair, brother
and nephew of John "Padre" McCoy, respectively.
John McCoy Sr.
John McCoy Sr., son of John and Martha Humphrey McCoy, arrived with wife Martha
and children Daniel and Louisa in 1827 and are listed in the 1828 census of the
colony. They were among the first settlers of the DeWitt Colony at Old Station
on the Lavaca. John McCoy, known as "Devil" or "Padre" McCoy Indians and
Mexicans, respectively, was apparently the head of the McCoy clan and an
accomplished Indian fighter as were other McCoys serving under both Daniel Boone
and son Capt. Nathan Boone in Missouri. John and Martha McCoy Sr. had children
Joseph Hill, John Jr., James, Thomas, Jesse, Timothy, Samuel, Daniel and Louisa.
Sons Jesse (b. 1804 in MO) and Joseph Hill (b. abt 1791 in KY) came to TX with
their father in 1827 and are also listed in the 1828 census. The single John
McCoy listed in the 1828 census from PA is believed also to be a son, John McCoy
Jr. (b. abt 1794 in KY; d. BlancoCo, TX). Son Samuel McCoy (b. 1806 in MO)
arrived later in 1829. Son James McCoy (b. 1796 in KY; m. Matilda?) also came to
Texas and died at Goliad in 1836 while serving in Capt. Pettus' Company of San
Antonio Grays. Daniel McCoy (b. 1813 LincolnCo, MO) married an Elizabeth and
sister Louisa McCoy (b. 1816 LincolnCo, MO) married Thomas M. Mathews.
John McCoy (Jr.)
John McCoy, age 33, from Pennsylvania with a wife in the USA, was listed in the
1828 census of the colony. A John McCoy listed in DeWitt Colony land records as
having arrived married in 1827 with family of 4 received a sitio land grant on
the east bank of the Guadalupe River on Queens and McCoy Creek in current
DeWittCo, south of the cluster of grants to the John "Padre" McCoy relations
(Joseph, Jesse and Samuel). These John McCoys are believed to be one and the
same and the son of John "Padre" and Martha Dunbar McCoy Sr.
A John McCoy participated in the Battle of San Jacinto in Capt. Hayden Arnold's
1st Infantry Company, 2nd Regiment of Volunteers. Dixon and Kemp in Heroes of
San Jacinto described him as born in Missouri in 1794 having emigrated to Texas
with wife, two sons and a daughter in 1828. He enlisted in the Republican Army
on 6 Mar 1836 for 6 months. In 1871 he was living in BlancoCo, receiving a
pension and died there. This John McCoy married Elizabeth Ann Castleman 15 Mar
1830. Probably this is the John McCoy family of the 1850 census of CaldwellCo:
McCOY: John 55 m KY; Elizabeth 50 f TN; Rimber 19 m TX; John 12 m TX; Green 10 m
TX.
Jesse McCoy
Jesse McCoy, 32,{at time of death at the Alamo} born 1804 in Gyrosburg,
Tennessee, a resident of Gonzales and Private rifleman in the Gonzales Rangers.
He was son of John and Martha Dunbar McCoy who were among the first settlers of
the DeWitt Colony at Old Station on the Lavaca. Jesse McCoy arrived with his
parents in the DeWitt Colony on 9 Mar 1827 from MO where he received one fourth
league. His tract on which he paid his first installment "At Gonzales, this 4th
of July 1835, we having been appointed by the Ayto of Gonzales as Commissioners
of the State for collecting the State dues for lands under the 25 art of the law
of the 24th of March, 1825 certify that we have been paid the sum of three
Dollars and ninety cents and 5/6 in full of first installments in Jesse McCoy's
Quarter of a league of land deeded to him by the Commissioner Jose Antonio
Navarro. Thomas R. Miller Adam Zumwalt B. D. McClure" was on the east bank of
the Guadalupe River south of Gonzales on the current Gonzales-DeWitt County
border. The author's 3rd great grandparents David and Mary Ann Zumwalt Burket
purchased a portion on the tract after their return in 1837 from the Run Away
Scrape. Jesse McCoy's widow was named Kitty.
Jesse McCoy's father and family of four received a sitio of land next to Jesse
McCoy's tract at the same time. Father John "Devil" or "Padre" McCoy as he was
known by Indians and the Mexicans, respectively, was the head of the McCoy clan
in TX and Indian fighter in LincolnCo, MO before coming to TX. John McCoy and
members of the Zumwalt family served together in Daniel Boone’s Mounted Rangers
in MO and directly under his son Capt. Nathan Boone in LincolnCo, MO. On 12 Apr
1834, Jesse McCoy
requested "...to have his stock mark and Brand recorded which he says is as
follows--Ear mark a swallow fork in each ear and an under bit in the left, and
his brand the letters J and T joined which he declares to be his true mark and
that he has no other."
A claim presented to the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Republic
of Texas in Dec 1837 by "Alamo widow" Kitty McCoy suggests that Jesse provided
supplies to the young Texas Army:
"...the first auditor is authorized to audit the claim of the widow Kitty McCoy
as per vouchers of Byrd Lockhart and Colonel William H. Patton for beef and corn
valued at three hundred and seventy dollars in military script." Joseph Rowe,
Speaker of the House (signed); S.H. Everett, Pres. Pro Tem Senate (signed);
Approved by Sam Houston (signed).
Jesse McCoy, son of John and Martha Dunbar McCoy, was a member of the Gonzales
Alamo Relief Force and died in the Alamo in 1836. A letter from Empresario Green
DeWitt to Jefe-Politico of Bexar in 1829 suggests that Jesse played an important
emissary or intelligence role early in the colony's history in its relationship
with Indians.
"His Excellency, Ramon Musquiz, Chief of the Department of Texas, May 8th, 1829.
Dear Sir, On last evening a man by the name of Jesa McCoy who is a resident of
this colony who has been with the Comanche Indians for several weeks passed
arrived here, and gave me the following information; the principal chief of the
Tawaccanes, and the principal chief of the Wacoes, called upon the head chief of
the Comanches and solicited from him to join them the Wacoes and Tawaccanes in a
general war against the Mexicans and the American settlements---Saying at the
same time that the Mexicans had taken from them a Caveard and the Americans had
killed some of there men, and therefore they have declared war against both; he
further states that the Comanches entirely refused to join in the war fare;
saying that they were now at perfect peace with the people of this country and
wished to remain so. I believe my informant to be a man of truth and that what
he has stated my be relied on. God and Liberty. Gonzales, 8th May, 1829 Green
DeWitt. (From The Austin Papers, E.C. Barker, ed.)
Joseph Hill McCoy
Joseph Hill and Catherine Clark McCoy. - Joseph McCoy, oldest child born about
1791 of John "Padre" and Martha Dunbar McCoy came with his father's family to
Texas. Although land records say Joseph arrived 26 Jan 1829 with his wife
Catherine, daughter of Major Christopher Clark of Kentucky, and five children,
probably: Prospect Clark, Green, Elizabeth, Christopher and Joseph L. (or
possibly an infant born in MO which died--Joseph L. was born 1 Nov 1827 at Old
Station on the Lavaca), the family of 7 is listed with children Prospect, Green,
Elizabeth, Christopher and a male infant in the 1828 census of the colony. Two
other children were born in Texas, Richard Texas M. on 22 Dec 1830 on Peach
Creek, and Lowrey Sylvestor McCoy on 12 Feb 1835 on Sandies Creek.
Prospect Clark, Green and Joseph McCoy married daughters of Zachariah and
Rosanna Chinault Davis. Prospect married Elizabeth Ann Davis August 18, 1840,
Green married Susan, and Joseph L. married Eliza in 1848.
Daughter Elizabeth wed Christopher Williams in Washington Co and later Archibald
Gibson in Gonzales Co.
Richard Texas married Matilda Caroline "Carrie" Crane, and Lowrey S. married Ann
Elizabeth Little.
Christopher, a lifelong bachelor, lived with his widowed mother Catherine after
their father's death in June 1836 near Neches or Washington-on-the-Brazos on the
Brazos River where he became ill during the Runaway Scrape.
Widow Catherine and family are listed in the 1850 census of GonzalesCo, Peach
Creek District: 12-12, McCoy, Caterine, 53, f, $13,284, Ky; McCoy, Cristepher,
28, m, Mo; McCoy, Texas, 18, m, Texas; McCoy, Laury C., 14, f, Texas.
Daughter Elizabeth McCoy Williams Gibson was also a single in 1850 listed in the
GonzalesCo census in the Town of Gonzales: Gipson, Eliza, 36, f, $2,500, Mo;
Gipson, Malzina, 18, f, Texas; Gipson, Samuel, 10, m, La.; Gipson, Amanda, 6, f,
La; Gipson, Marion, 3, f, Ill; Gipson, James B., 1, m, Ill.
Prospect Clark McCoy
Prospect Clark McCoy (2 Jan 1816 St. Charles or LincolnCo, Missouri) was
thirteen when the family arrived in Texas. During the Texas Revolution, with
other members of his family, he contributed to the cause of freedom serving with
Captain Albert Martin's Company of John H. Moore's Regiment. To his marriage to
Elizabeth Ann Davis were born eleven children among them three sets of twins.
The children were:
1.Jesse M.
2.Elizabeth L.
3.Mary M.
4.Zachariah Davis,
5.Prospect C. Jr.
6.Constanna Katherine
7.Rosanna
8.Emaline
9.Adaline
10.Vianna
11.Lavinia
1.His eldest son Jesse M. was named for his great uncle, a brother of Joseph,
who fell at the Alamo, married first Jane Shelton Bivin January 9, 1867 in
Guadalupe County, Texas and second in Kansas while on a trail drive in the late
1870's Lucretia L. Conklin.
2. His eldest daughter Elizabeth L. married George W. Lookingbill.
3.Mary M. McCoy, the second daughter, became the wife of Edward T. Pearson
November 2, 1859 and after bearing three children died May 16, 1869.
4.Zachariah Davis McCoy, the second son and fourth child, married Mollie Dees
and died but a week after their nuptials were celebrated. The story came down
that he swam the river to obtain the marriage license, became ill and died
February 20, 1869.
5.Prospect C. Jr. died at age seventeen.
6.Constanna Katherine wed first William Pinckney Moore and second following a
divorce C.B. "Bon" Burris.
7.Her twin Rosanna married E. Fred Morris and in 1886 went with their family to
Harvey County, Oregon.
8.Emaline (1853) died at age eleven about the same time as her brother Prospect
Jr.
9.Her twin sister Adaline wed W.H. Little October 14,1872.
10.Vianna "Fannie" (May 19, 1856-July 25, 1886) married Benjamin L. Lynch
October 4, 1875 and died eleven years later.
11.Her twin sister, Lavinia, was found dead in the family yard when she was only
fourteen.
The family of Prospect McCoy lived near old Sandies Chapel. They and most of
their children, some of their grandchildren, his mother Catherine, two of his
paternal uncles and Rosa Chinault Davis, mother of Elizabeth Ann, were all
buried in Sandies Chapel Cemetery. To the Edward T. Pearsons were born three
children: Elizabeth Ann "Bettie" married James Robert Gordon, a Confederate
veteran; Fillmore M. "Phillip" became the husband of Rachel T. Smith, an orphan
girl Phil's uncle Jesse befriended and brought home to Texas from one of his
trail drives; and Zachariah C. Pearson who died when not quite a year old. Linda
Ivy Alford (Adapted from The History of Gonzales County, Texas by permission of
the Gonzales County Historical Commission)
Green McCoy
Green McCoy was the "boy from Gonzales" described in the 13 men and boy
volunteers under Capt. George B. Erath who intercepted a group of about a
hundred Indian raiders on the way to a nearby settlement known as Erath's Fight
on 7 Jan 1837 at Elm Creek in current MilamCo. Other participants were Lishley,
Robert Childers, Frank Childers and soldiers McLochlan, Lee R. Davis, David
Clark, Empson Thompson, Jack Gross, Jack Houston. Other boys were Lewis Moore,
Morris Moore and John Folks. David Clark, a brother of Green McCoy's mother,
Catherine, that came to TX with the McCoys from LincolnCo, MO, was killed in the
fight. Green McCoy was also in Ben McCulloch's company that responded to a night
raid by Indians on the town of Gonzales in 1841. The troop comprised of Arthur
Swift, James H. Callahan, Wilson Randle, Eli T. Hankins, Clement Hinds,
Archibald Gipson, W.A. Hall, Henry E. McCulloch, James Roberts, Jeremiah
Roberts, Thomas R. Nichols, William Tumlinson, William P. Kincannon, Alsey R.
Miller and William Morrison, pursued up the Guadalupe to near the headwaters and
killed all but 8 of the raiders.
Samuel McCoy
Samuel McCoy. Samuel McCoy was born in 1806 in Lincoln County, Missouri and on
19 Feb 1832 married Mahala Zumwalt who was born in 1814 in St. Charles,
Missouri. Before going to Texas, the McCoy and Zumwalt men had served together
in Daniel Boone's Mounted Rangers. They served under his son, Captain Nathan
Boone, in Lincoln County, Missouri where in April, 1814 James McCoy was killed
by Indians one and one-half miles north of Riggs Ford. Samuel McCoy was a son of
John "Padre" McCoy, so called by the Mexicans because he was head of the McCoy
family who went with DeWitt to Gonzales March 9, 1827. Originally Samuel did not
go to Texas with the family. According to land records, he arrived in Gonzales
January 4, 1829 and received his one-fourth league of land on the east bank of
the Guadalupe River just north of current Hochheim 9 Jul 1831. Samuel also had
four lots in the inner town of Gonzales: Block 7, Lots 4 and 5, deed dated
December 28,1833 and two outer town lots, Tier 1, Lots 15 and 16 east of Water
Street, deed dated September 28, 1835.
Wife Mahala Zumwalt was the daughter of Adam Zumwalt. She and Samuel McCoy had
two children: Hester Ann (b. 19 Sep 1832) (photo) and Adam Zumwalt McCoy (b. abt
1837). (See Red Adam Zumwalt Family Bible). Samuel died intestate after October
7, 1836 and before March 12, 1838. Adam Zumwalt applied for guardianship of his
grandchildren, Hester Ann and Adam Z., at the request of his daughter Mahala,
widow of Samuel McCoy. On August 25, 1838 Mahala McCoy married Henry R.
Crawford. They had one son, Felix Grundy Crawford. On April 30, 1841 Henry
Crawford applied for guardianship of Hester Ann and Adam Zumwalt McCoy. Adam
Zumwalt was released from his guardianship September 29, 1841. Mahala died
before March, 1845 whereupon Eli Mitchell petitioned for guardianship of the
Samuel McCoy heirs. Bond was granted May 16, 1845 but in May, 1853 Eli had to
bring suit against Henry Crawford to gain control of the Samuel McCoy estate.
Eli Mitchell resigned his guardianship of the Samuel McCoy heirs December 27,
1853 in favor of Robert J. Carr of Caldwell County, husband of Hester Ann McCoy.
On December 28, 1853 Henry Crawford as guardian of his son, Felix Crawford, and
Robert Carr as guardian for his wife, Hester Ann, and Adam Z. McCoy, petitioned
the court for the partition and distribution of the McCoy estate. At the time of
his death Samuel McCoy had three-fourths league of land situated on the waters
of Peach Creek in Gonzales County and two lots east of Water Street on East
Avenue in the outer Town of Gonzales, Tier 1, Lots 15-16, deed dated September
28,1835. These two lots were bought at public auction by Eli Mitchell February
27, 1855 for the sum of $315.50. The three-fourths league of land was divided:
1366 acres to Hester Ann Carr, 1366 acres to Adam McCoy, 765 acres to Felix
Crawford, son of Mahala McCoy Crawford. The Samuel McCoy estate was finally
settled in 1855. Jackie C. Pascha (Adpated from The History of Gonzales County,
Texas by permission of the Gonzales County Historical Commission)
Daniel McCoy
Daniel McCoy was among the band of Gonzales volunteers under Dr. James H.C.
Miller who responded to a Comanche depredation in 1835 on a French and Mexican
pack train on its way to Mexico. The party of thirteen were camped near the
cabin of John Castleman on the San Antonio Road fifteen miles west of Gonzales.
After warnings by Castleman that the area was unsafe, the party was attacked,
killed, looted and scalped by a band of near 100 mounted Indians. The Gonzales
men encountered the Indian band three days later up the San Marcos near Rio
Blanco. Daniel McCoy with Matthew Caldwell and Ezekial Williams were sent
forward to determine the bands position when from behind Daniel was grasped by
the tails of his long coat by an Indian from the bushes. According to author
John Henry Brown ..."but 'Old Dan' as he was called, threw his arms backward and
slipped from the garment without stopping, exclaiming, 'Take it, d--n you!'"
Several Indians were killed, but according to Brown they were unable to take the
whole force because of fear and indecision by inexperienced members of the
party. In this action were also William S. Fisher, Bartlett D. McClure, David
Hanna, Landon Webster and Jonathan Scott. The relationship of Daniel McCoy to
the John McCoy's of DeWitt Colony and whether this is the same Daniel McCoy
receiving title to the sitio east of the Gonzales town tract on the Sandy Fork
of Peach Creek is not completely clear. The fact that Daniel and Joseph McCoy
Jr. list identical arrival dates in DeWitt land records suggest that they may
have been related. The reference to "Old Dan" suggests that he might have been
up in age in 1835. Daniel McCoy (b. bef 1774), son of John and Martha Humphrey
McCoy, brother of John "Padre" McCoy Sr., would have been at least 61 years old
and maybe older at the time. Daniel and Rachel Zumwalt McCoy had children John
Lewis (b. 1798), Frances (Fanny), Sarah (Sally), Nancy, Mahala, Margaret
(Peggy), Joseph (b. 1811) and Elizabeth (Betsy). Daughter Margaret (b.
1809-1812) married first Ambrose Tinney in 1828 in St. CharlesCo, MO. An Ambrose
Fenney is listed as arriving in the DeWitt Colony on 20 Mar 1830 with a family
of 4 receiving title to a sitio of land on the west branch of Plum Creek in
current CaldwellCo. The listed arrival date is identical to that for Daniel and
Joseph McCoy Jr. Margaret McCoy and Ambrose Tinney had children John, Griffin,
Addison B. and Jacob. The former were born in MO and the latter in TX. Margaret
Tinney later married Alexander Morris in 1848 in GonzalesCo, TX and they had
children George Washington, Isabel and Alexander Jr. The 1850 census of
CaldwellCo lists household: MORRIS: Alexander 28 m PA; Margaret 35 f MO; TINNEY,
John 20 m MO; Griffin 17 m MO; Austin 13 m TX; Jacob 10 m TX; MORRIS: George W.
2 m TX; Isabella 6/12 f TX
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Court records
Jurisdiction of Gonzales August 5th, 1833.
Art. 23rd The Ayuntamto. in orderly session. Present the Alcalde. 1st Regdr. and
Sindico. Resolved. That John H. Buckette be and is employed for the time being
as a translator, for which be is to receive 12 ½ cents for reading each paper if
it is not to be translated, and 12 ½ cents for each hundred words which he
translates. J. B. PATRICK President. ALMOND COTTLE Sindico.
Article 24th Resolved that Stephen Smith and John McCoy P. have the price
of the Boat they built for the Jurisdiction, agreeable to the contract which was
ninety five Dollars and seventy five cents. As the same has been received. J. B.
PATRICK President. ALMOND COTTLE Sindico.
Article 12th. Resolved that James Kerr be appointed Surveyor of the road that
the commissioners Matthew Caldwell, Daniel McCoy & Isaac Weldon may view
and mark out from the town of Gonzales to the town of Mina and make Due return
of the same. JAMES C. DAVIS pres. ELI MITCHELL 2 Rig THOMAS R. MILLER Sind
There are no official minutes of the Ayuntamiento of 1835 consisting of Andrew
Ponton, alcalde; Eli Mitchell and Joseph D. Clements, regidores; Matthew
Caldwell, sindico procurador; and B.D. McClure primary judge. The Ayuntamiento
of 1835 was the one who guided the colony through the momentous events leading
up to Texas Independence in late 1835 and spring 1836. Documents in the Texas
Archives give sketches of some of their activities.
1835 Consultation Election. On 1 February 1835, the ayuntamiento held an
election for delegates to represent the municipality of Gonzales in an impending
consultation following the events described above that was not held until Nov
1835. William W. Arrington was the election judge, first teller was E.W. Bull,
second teller was S. Webster and George W. Davis was secretary which yielded the
following results for the four candidates: Fisher, 43; Caldwell, 44; Clements,
13; and B. Lockhart, 16. Known voters were: John T. Tinsley, David Burket,
Horace Eggleston, Robert Smith, William Strode, William Newland, John G. King,
R.W. Valentine, John Davis, John Kane, N. Peck, A. Zumwalt Sr., Stephen Smith,
Thomas Jackson, James Tumlinson, Eli Mitchell, Felix Taylor, Joseph S. Martin
Sr., William Hill, John Castleman, Daniel McCoy Jr., E.B. Jackson, James
Hodges, Jacob Garner, Elijah Tate, Samuel McCoy, John Henry, William
Fishbaugh, John A. Neill, B.D. McClure, Samuel Lockhart, William A. Matthews,
John McCoy Sr., Benjamin Duncan, A. Cottle, A. Ponton, James Gibson,
Joseph McCoy, Frederick Elm, George Tumlinson, Dolphin Floyd, Prospect
McCoy, E.W. Bull, Joseph Kent, George Kimble, Charles Lockhart, Kimber W.
Barton, Benjamin Kellogg, James Hodges Jr., Andrew Sowell, John Fisher, John
McCoy, M. Caldwell, S. Webster, William W. Arrington, Byrd Lockhart, Lewis
Sowell, James George, George Washington Davis and Francis Berry.
Committee of Safety. Increasing alarm over apparent attempts by Santa Anna to
dissolve the Federalist system of government and the reopening of customs houses
and military garrisons in Texas after the dissolution of the legislature of
Coahuila y Texas in 1835 precipitated formation of a Committee of Safety
(William Arrington, George Davis, John Fisher, James Hodges, Bartholomew
McClure, James P. Patrick and Andrew Ponton) for the colony on May 17.
Election of delegates to the 3rd Texas Consultation of November 1835. Delegates
were elected September 26, 1835 to represent the Gonzales municipality in a
general Texas consultation to be held on October 15, 1835. Those elected were:
James Hodges, Joseph D. Clements, Benjamin Fuqua, Thomas R. Miller and William
S. Fisher. Another election for two more delegates for the same meeting was held
October 4, 1835. Elected were William W. Arrington and George W. Davis. William
Fisher, president of the safety committee, signed the statement of election.
Samuel McCoy, president pro-tem and George W. Davis, secretary of the
Gonzales Committee of Safety, reported the results.
Six of the delegates above signed the Declaration of the People of Texas which
declared the intention of Texans to fight for the restoration of the
Constitution of 1824 and independent status for Texas as a state within the
Republic of Mexico. J.D. Clements signed as a representative for the Gonzales
Municipality and Hodges, Fuqua, Fisher, Arrington and Davis signed as
representatives of the Municipality of Austin.
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DeWitt Colony Life
Future DeWitt Colony 1700-1825. Prior to colonization, the life style and
economy of the area of Texas that became the DeWitt Colony was New Spain and
comprised of the rancho, the commodity was wild free ranging longhorns, the
worker the vaquero, the mode of transportation the tamed mesteña (mustang) which
were seeded from stock left by numerous Spanish settlement expeditions called
entradas in the 17th and 18th centuries. The trade of livestock gathered from
roundups was regulated and a source of tax income for the government.
Upper South Hunters and Farmers. DeWitt Colonists from the Upper South of the
western frontiers of the United States at Old Station on the Lavaca found
themselves originally on the coastal plains of Texas equipped with hunting
skills and horticultural techniques far different
than those for the ranching and livestock industry described above. Noah
Smithwick in The Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days
describes the situation at Old Station where he arrived in Texas before going on
to the Austin Colony. The author's second great granduncle Nathan Boone Burkett
in Early Days in Texas described the scene
"the section of the coast where we landed was level prairie, and one could see
for a considerable distance. We soon sighted hundreds of deer and other wild
animals. That section was practically uninhabited at the time and there was game
and wild life in abundance."
Deer, bear, turkey, antelope, buffalo and wild mustangs were abundant and the
soil was virgin. Wild game meat, including mustangs, and wild honey provided
subsistence until crops and domestic animals could be established. Smithwick, a
skilled blacksmith, remarked
"Game was the sole dependence of many families and I fixed up many an old gun
that I wouldn’t have picked up in the road, knowing that it was all that stood
between a family and the gaunt wolf at the door, as well as the Indians."
Gonzales and surroundings is comprised largely of the Blackland Prairie area of
Texas consisting of rolling plain and rich black soil mixed with white sand. The
Guadalupe, San Marcos and Lavaca Rivers were fed by numerous tributaries lined
with stands of hardwoods, elm, ash, black walnut and live, post and Spanish oak.
Softwoods mesquite and cypress dominated the prairies and river bottoms,
respectively, interspersed with some pine.
Housing.
At first housing was primitive and makeshift being no more than lean-to or
dugouts with minimal protection from man, beast or the elements. Dugouts were
used where timbers were scarce and consisted of pits in the ground or cave-like
structures in the side of a hill. The pit was covered by logs where available
and then sealed off with sod. Some settlers applied modifications of the jacal
structure illustrated at left adapted from native Tejanos. Jacals were
structures pieced together from slender poles, often bamboo-like cane, tied
tightly together and chinked with mud or clay or buttressed by whatever
materials were available. The thatched roof was made from the same poles and
overlayed with materials from simple grass and straw to wider bladed fronds from
cactus and palmetto where available. As settlement increased and legal titles to
land were issued, cooperative house-raisings among neighbors resulted in
improved housing quality comprised of cedar picket houses and most commonly the
log cabin. Cedar pickets were essentially more sophisticated and elaborate jacal
structures formed by upright cedar poles and covered by boards shaved crudely
from timbers.
Timber was cut by axe and transported by oxen, or dragged by manpower for short
distances. Timbers were flattened on four sides by hand with an instrument with
a hoe-like blade between two handles called a foot adze. Cabin dimensions varied
dependent on available timbers, but usually were one room or in exceptional
cases two of about 20 by 20 feet in dimensions with a foot square opening or two
for windows. The "log pen" cabin sometimes consisted of unmodified or debarked
logs notched at each end to form minimal space between them and chinked with
clay and with either clay or crude plank floors if they could be cut. The
author's 2nd great granduncle Nathan Boone Burkett says in his memoirs Early
Days in Texas:
"Practically every one lived in log cabins with adobe or packed earth floors,
and slept in home-made beds which were built into the corner of the rooms and
fastened to two walls. Most cabins were constructed with fireplaces which were
used for all the cooking, in addition to heating, molding bullets, etc. Those
who had no fireplace had to do their cooking outdoors in regular campfire
style."
As settlement progressed, the more elaborate and comfortable "dog-run" house
which was built from sawed planks, initially by hand and later by water-driven
mills. The simplest dog-run home usually consisted of two rooms connected by a
long hall with a long porch on the front. The design was expanded to include
more rooms and even a second story over time. This design provided an efficient
cooling system from breezes running the length or length and width of the house.
Shown below is the Horace Eggleston House, thought to be one of the finest and
most authentic restored dog-run style house in Texas and was the first to
receive a medallion for such in the state. It is currently on display in
Gonzales and furnished with items of the period by the Daughters of the Republic
of Texas. A dog-run house, built in the 1840's by Prince Carl in New Braunfels,
in its natural state and probably more the average is illustrated below from a
reunion of early settlers of New Braunfels in 1878. It is these type of
structures that were destroyed quickly when torched during the evacuation of
Gonzales town in 1836 after the Alamo defeat.
Glass was initially not available and windows were covered with wooden shutters
with deer or cowhides for curtains. Iron was scarce, but used when available to
bar windows and to reinforce doors. The Bradford home in Matagorda (left) built
prior to 1836 is an example of the use of glass on the lookouts from the loft
which was less likely to get broken.
Roofs were made of sod or wooden shakes which were crude shingles split off in
two to three feet lengths and the width of a log. Skilled carpenters provided
precision materials as attested by a contract written (spelling unaltered) by
the author’s 4th great granduncle Andrew Kent:
"For value received I promis and cose to be paid unto Richard Heath or barer
three thousand five hundred shingles to be from three to five inches in wedth
and eighteen in length & the edges to be straiteneed to about the quarter of an
inch with the drawing knife to be delivered at the tree and to be reddy by the
first day of December next." July the 3rd 1834
The meager estate of Andrew Kent recovered after return of his widow and
children to their homeplace on the lower Lavaca River from East Texas after the
Runaway Scrape reflects the basic tools of the DeWitt Colonists, many of whom
were skilled carpenters in addition to farmers and ranchers. Again the
observations of Mexican Army Lt. Jose Enrique de la Pena as the army moved
through the abandoned Gonzales area on the way to San Felipe de Austin and San
Jacinto in 1836:
"All along the road we found dwellings of frame construction, some well
built.…..Everything we found in them was unequivocal testimony to the industry
and diligence of the unfortunate families who had abandoned them. Some miles
above Gonzales two sawmills were found…….The construction of corrals for the
stock and the fences around arable lands seemed astonishing to our eyes….Some of
the wood was cylindrical in shape and driven perpendicularly into the ground,
but most of them were triangular or rectangular prisms placed horizontally and
forming a line which in fortification construction we designate as saw tooths,
an example of the union of symmetry with solidity."
Farming.
Traditional Spanish philosophy that landowners should share an equal quantity of
the area's water was applied in distribution of land in the colony. Consequently
tracts fronted on one bank of a river or tributary which avoided monopoly of
streams by any one landowner by riparian right which many of the colonists from
the east were familiar
(see Land Grant maps and Dewitt Colony Rivers). Colonization law provided that
settlers were required to occupy or improve land grants within six years of
title or the land would revert to the government.
Although wild game and honey was often the basic diet upon arrival, corn
production, the grain staple of the colony, was abundant even from the most
simple horticultural technique of sticking seeds into the fertile ground with a
stick. A substantial corn crop was planted among the cane breaks at Old Station
in 1827 which made the colonists reluctant to leave it upon order to relocate to
Gonzales. Other grains as wheat, barley and rye were raised in almost
insignificant amounts throughout the life of the colony. Flour was at a premium
and yeast for leavening even more scarce as described by uncle Nate Burkett:
"Some of the boys came out from the cabin and gave each of the campers a
biscuit, as if treating them to something now. These were hardtack biscuits, and
were described as being about as hard as a terrapin. This was when flour was
twenty dollars a barrel, and extremely hard to get at any price."
Because of the largely Upper South background of the majority population and the
lack of transport routes for export, plantation scale cotton farming from
establishment of the colony through statehood was not of significant economic
consequence. Although the Lavaca, Guadalupe and San Antonio Rivers linked the
colony to the coast, they were shallow, dotted with sandbars and plagued by
blockade with debris with little potential for shipping. However, cotton
production on local farms was substantial enough to support multiple gins in the
colony and noted by Lt. Jose Enrique de la Pena as he moved with the Mexican
Army toward San Jacinto through the abandoned colony after their victory over
the Texans at the Alamo in San Antonio in spring 1836:
"….there were several barns full of cotton, a great deal of it already ginned
and carded; spinning wheels for weaving and coffee grinders were found in most
of these houses." He went on to describe how their soldiers destroyed cotton
bales to use for fresh bedding daily. The women who followed the army spread
cotton on the banks of the river to avoid dirtying their feet after bathing. He
noted while camped outside
San Felipe de Austin "it is impossible to estimate the value of the cotton that
we have seen between Gonzales and here, both baled and stored unginned, but even
less that still found in the fields."
Lt. de la Pena estimated the total abandoned corn and cotton stores around
Gonzales at more than forty thousand arrobas (one arroba equals about 25
pounds).
Stock Raising
Although largely hunters, woodsmen and farmers from the southern frontiers of
the growing United States, the colonists quickly adopted the livestock husbandry
skills of native Tejanos of the period which included branding, roundups and
accompanying horsemanship. Stockraising consisted of cattle for both market and
home consumption
and hogs mostly for home consumption. Both were allowed to range freely and
flourished without feed on the land. Brands were apparently registered with the
ayuntamiento at about the same time as land titles began to be issued. Dairy
stock and their milk products were not as prevalent, but substantial and in
great demand. Lt. de la Pena remarked as Santa Anna’s army crossed the Guadalupe
River into Gonzales on the way to San Jacinto in 1836: "In Gonzales and its
surroundings there were hundreds of heads of cattle……He <Colonel Gonzalez Pavon>
had corralled about three hundred dairy cows…." From what the author’s 3rd great
grandmother Mary Ann Zumwalt Burket related to a granddaughter who related it to
a niece by letter in 1927 about events on their homeplace in 1838 after return
from the Runaway Scrape, milk production could be substantial on one farm:
"did not have any trouble with the Indians, I mean serious trouble. There was
once a tribe of 300 camped on the other side of spring branch from the
house….let them have 40 gallons. By they were nice and would give fresh wild
meat and honey that they had taken from the trees by the bucketful. They always
seemed anxious to pay for what they got….now here is something to laugh about.
We had Rangers in those days. One night there were 60 camped near the old
branch. They did not get there and get settled until late. They wanted milk but
thought they would steal it, so they came over to the house to hunt it. The
dairy was down in the yard under the shade of one of those big trees. It was
built high on four strong posts with three shelves in it. We skimmed the milk in
the evening and put the cream in a two-gallon pail and it was nearly full. Will
Allen’s father was in the bunch. He found the cream. It was sitting on top of
the shelf. When he turned it down to drink out of it, it slipped and turned
upside down over his head. He made such a racket the boys began to run and I did
too. He fell down and I caught him. I called him ‘Cream Pot Allen.’ Since then
everyone knew him by that name."
As indicated by the livestock count in the government census of 1828, hog
raising was extensive among the upper south immigrants in the colony from the
onset. In 1828, the colony had 276 hogs distributed among 14 owners out of a
total population of 110 persons enumerated. Lt. de la Pena in spring 1836
fourteen miles outside Gonzales where the army camped on Tejocote Creek on the
author’s 3rd great grandfather David Burket’s league wrote:
"the pigs found at this place were as big as a five or six month’s calf. All the
road was woody with red and white oak trees except close to the creek…..there
were other trees about which I shall speak again because of their beauty……we
passed through some prairies so beautiful that I lack words to describe them. It
was all a field of lilies and poppies…..the soul expanded, and it is difficult
to explain the joy that I felt."
Coming back to reality of his situation as head a Mexican sapper unit headed for
San Jacinto, Lt. de la Pena described his fantasy of being shot on the site and
being buried in such a beautiful vast garden.
There is some evidence of application of goat ranching techniques for
predominantly milk product production which was more prevalent in the DeLeon
Colony and further south toward the Mexican interior.
The Daily Fare
The colonists normal meals consisted of corn bread, pork, beef and wild game
with honey with some milk or milk products as a luxury. Fresh corn on the cob,
Indian and soft white Mexican variety, was boiled and roasted and stored shelled
in large kettles of "lye hominy" for use in the winter. Being from the Upper
South, the colonists most likely also dried the hominy, made meal of it and used
it to make Georgia "ice cream" or Texas "yoghurt", e.g. white corn hominy grits.
Vegetable and poultry farming was probably minimal in the colony and limited to
small flocks and plots for home use. Although Lt. de la Pena noted in abandoned
Gonzales in 1836 "there was a great abundance of pigs and chickens, which the
soldiers went after hungrily," wild turkey was probably as common a source of
poultry product as domestic fowls as illustrated by 3rd great grandma Mary Ann
Zumwalt Burket's description recorded by her granddaughter:
"We settled on the old homeplace on spring branch and built a log hut. The first
dinner ever eaten on that old homestead, General Henry McCullough called. He was
on a big white horse. Your grandfather killed a wild turkey in the bottom close
to the river. I cooked it on the campfire. I said ‘We have no table yet, sir.’
So we turned a washtub upside down and sat the oven in the middle of the tub and
went to work. The General said that was the best dinner he had ever eaten."
Condiments and Luxuries
Coffee, tobacco and spirits were present in the colony, in great demand and a
necessity or luxury dependent on point of view. All three were largely imported
although tobacco and production of spirits was also somewhat a local industry.
Colonization law allowed colonists to import most goods duty free for their own
use, however, the demand for these commodities and profits to be made from
marketing them from onset of the colony caused political troubles for Green
DeWitt and the early colonists because of the contraband problem. Imports to the
colony came largely from the Gulf Coast, primarily Matagorda Bay, up the
Indianola-Austin Road. The premium put on coffee was illustrated by the fact
that Lt. George C. Kimbell requisitioned and carried with him 52 pounds of
coffee as part of the supplies carried by the Gonzales Rangers as they departed
Gonzales on 27 Feb 1836 to relieve the besieged Alamo garrison at San Antonio de
Bexar. Plentiful wild honey substituted for refined sugar although sugar cane
was easy to grow in the area as a letter from Mrs. Catherine Barton Lockhart,
wife of surveyor Charles Lockhart related to relatives back in Ohio in 1830.
Salt came from sea water works on the Gulf Coast at the mouth of the Brazos
River.
Business and Commerce
Businesses in Gonzales town prior to 1836 were limited to two General Stores,
two or three saddle/blacksmith/mechanic’s shops, a hat factory, two hotels, a
boarding house/restaurant, a smoke house and a grogshop or pub. According to
letters of Sam Houston and others, there must have been considerable whiskey
stores in the town which someone had spiked with arsenic in case the advancing
Mexican Army from San Antonio after the Battle of the Alamo was tempted to
consume.
The whiskey stores were thought to have been part, in addition to gun powder
kegs, of the explosions heard by departing settlers when Houston’s army burned
the town in front of the advancing Mexican Army from San Antonio. There was at
least three gins, sawmills or gristmills, the Martin mill on the southern town
border and two north of Gonzales noted by Lt. de la Pena. The latter may have
been enterprises began between Green DeWitt and Joseph Clements in 1830. More
formal service establishments as banks, pharmacies, specialty stores and
professional services were notably absent from Gonzales and the DeWitt Colony
until into the 1850’s. These were carried out by the general activities of the
retail and wholesale merchants, mill owners and individuals by barter.
Individual goods and services were more prevalent as the medium of exchange than
script, however, the extensive records of dollar values put on estates at
auction, ferry services and government fees indicates the presence of t least a
growing monetary system of exchange. The minutes of the Gonzales Ayuntamientos
of 1833 and sketches in the Texas Archives and other literature through 1836
indicate a growing economic activity requiring maintenance of roads, ferries,
licensing of merchants, regulation of credit procedures and interest rates and
public disturbances.
SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS © 1997-1998, Wallace L. McKeehan, All Rights
Reserved. DeWitt Colony Life
Index to “McCoy” References in the Gonzales Inquirer between
June 1878- Dec. 1903
GONZALES INQUIRER, Kathleen Springs Transcriptions
June 1878-May 1879
McCoy, Adam, Sheriff's Tax Sale, Gonz.Inq. 19 Apr 1879 p3
McCoy, Daniel, Tax Sale, original grantee, Gonz.Inq. 19 Apr 1879 p3
McCoy, John, Tax Sale, original grantee, Gonz.Inq. 19 Apr 1879 p3
McCoy, Jno., Tax Sale, original grantee, Gonz.Inq. 19 Apr 1879 p3
McCoy, Jesse, Tax Sale, original grantee, Gonz.Inq. 19 Apr 1879 p3
McCoy, Jesse, half-brother of story-teller, Gonz.Inq. 15 Feb. 1879 p1
McCoy, Joe, Pettit July list, Gonz.Inq., 15 Mar 1879 p3
McCoy, Joseph, Tax Sale, original grantee, Gonz.Inq. 19 Apr 1879 p3
McCoy, P.C., Tax Sale, original grantee, Gonz.Inq. 19 Apr 1879 p3
McCoy, Mr. & Mr.Hawkins, fight, Rancho Jottings, Gonz.Inq. 12 Apr 1879 p2
McCoy, P.C., Rancho, in town, Gonz.Inq. 10 Aug 1878 p3
McCoy, Saml., Tax Sale, original grantee, Gonz.Inq. 19 Apr 1879 p3
McCoy, Texas, estray Notice, Gonz.Inq. 7 Dec. 1878 p3
McCoy, Tode, Pettit July list, Gonz.Inq., 15 Mar 1879 p3
McCoy, Zack, Pettit July list, Gonz.Inq., 15 Mar 1879 p3
3 Jan 1880-6 Dec 1884
McCoy, F.m., letter in postoffice, Gonz.Inq.26 Jul 1884 p3
McCoy, John, in letter about 1838-39, Gonz.Inq. 4 Mar 1882 p1
McCoy, M.M., letter at postoffice, Gonz.Inq. 4 Mar 1882
McCoy, Jesse, Personals, Gonz.Inq. 29 Jan 1881
McCoy, Mr., Rancho col., Gonz.Inq. 5 Feb 1881
McCoy, Jesse, Leesville, readying cattle drive, Gonz.Inq. 12 Mar 1881
McCoy, George, letter at postoffice, Gonz.Inq. 14 Jul 1883 p3
McCoy, Nancy W., Belmont/Leesville, judged insane, Gonz.Inq. 5 May 1883 p3
McCoy, F.M., letter at post office, Gonz.Inq. 24 Mar 1883 p2
McCoy, P.C., Gonzales Co. Tax Payer, Gonz.Inq. 20 Oct 1883 p1
3 Jan 1885-26 Dec 1889
McCoy, P.C., died in last 2 years, TX Vet, Gonz.Inq. 2 Jan 1886
McCoy, C., Leesville Org. for Protection, Gonz.Inq. 24 Oct 1885
McCoy, L.S., Leesville Org. for Protection, Gonz.Inq. 24 Oct 1885
McCoy, Calia, advertised letter, Gonz.Inq. 17 Oct 1885
McCoy, J.M., Leesville Org. for Protection, Gonz.Inq. 24 Oct 1885
McCoy, P.C., Mrs., Hill, Mary E., Gonzales TX Vet, Gonz.Inq. 2 Jan 1886
McCoy, Belle, Miss, died, daughter of Joe, Leesville, No. 4 Gonz.Inq. 24 Jul
1886
McCoy, Joe, daughter Belle died, Leesville, No. 4 Gonz.Inq. 24 Jul 1886
McCoy, J.C., son Adam died, Waelder col., Gonz.Inq. 21 Jan 1888
McCoy, J.C., personals, No. 4 Gonz.Inq.14 Jul 1888
McCoy, Jacob T., letter held for postage, Gonz.Inq. 2 Jun 1888
McCoy, Adam, died, in Cherokee Nation, Waelder col., Gonz.Inq. 21 Jan 1888
7 Jan 1892-22 Dec 1892
McCoy, J.C.B., signed invitation to People's Party, Gonz.Inq. 17 Mar 1892
McCoy, L.S., signed invitation to People's Party, Gonz.Inq. 17 Mar 1892
4 Jan 1894-29 Dec 1894
McCoy, J.C.B., election returns, Gonz.Inq. 8 Nov 1894
6 Jan 1898-12 Nov 1900
McCoy, Christian, Jr., Mr., died, Daily Inq. 13 Sep 1900
McCoy, D.N.H., advertised letter, Gonz.Inq. 3 Nov 1898
McCoy, D.N.H., advertised letter, Gonz.Inq. 3 Nov 1898
McCoy, Ethel, Miss, Dewville col., Gonz.Inq. 3 Feb 1898
McCoy, Jess, Dewville, Gonz.Inq. 11 Feb 1898
McCoy, Jas., advertised letter, Daily Inq. 10 Mar 1899
McCoy, J.C.B., election return, Gonz.Inq. 18 Nov 1898
McCoy, Lizzie, Miss, died, Leesville, Daily Inq. 20 Sep 1900
McCoy, Texas, Dewville, Gonz.Inq. 11 Feb 1898
2 Jan 1901-31 Dec 1901
McCoy, Lasselle, advertised letter, Daily Inq. 28 Feb 1901
McCoy, Taad, advertised letter, Daily Inq. 8 Mar 1901
2 Jan 1902-31 Dec 1902
McCoy, Leona, married E.E. Talley, Daily Inq. 26 Dec 1902
1 Jan 1903-31 Dec 1903
McCoy, Christopher, died, Leesville, p1 Daily Inq. 31 Dec 1903
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