GILBERT MCCOY

MCCOY, MELOTT

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 7/26/2009 at 20:06:57

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

GILBERT MCCOY, farmer, Sec. 15; P.O. Centerville; born March 8, 1806, in Elizabethtown, Va.; when a child, came with his parents to Monroe Co., Ohio; April 10, 1849, he removed to Appanoose Co. He owns 197 acres of land which he entered direct from the Government. Married Miss Sarah Melott April 29, 1832, in Monroe Co., Ohio; she was born Dec. 31, 1806, in Pennsylvania; had seven children, six living - William, Ann, now Mrs. Booth, Peter, Mitchel, Rachel and Rebecca; lost Margaret in 1874 at aged 27 years. Democrat.