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| Cemetery Name: |
McCoy |
Click on the photos above to enlarge |
| County: | Mason | |
| USGS Quad: | Robertsburg Map | |
| Coordinates: | 38.7159ºN -81.9051ºW | |
| Maintained by: | D. Little and others | |
| Land owner: | Mead West Va. Co. | |
| Date added to WVCPA register: | April 2009 | |
| Condition of cemetery**: | Fair (March 2009) | |
| Accessibility: | The cemetery is located on Calispel Ridge along the old ridge road on the old McCoy farm (see map for exact location) - very difficult access in rugged terrain for the most part, and definitely only on foot. Best access route is from the east end of Calispel Ridge road after a dry spell. | |
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** Condition of cemetery as
observed on the given date - |
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| Last Name: | First Name: |
Born: |
Died: |
Inscription: |
Photo: |
Source: |
| McCoy | Isaiah | 1828 | 5 December 1865 | "CO. B, 13TH W.VA. INF." |
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| McCoy | John H. | 12 September 1857 | 21 April 1936 | [John Hamilton McCoy - son of Isaiah and Jane McCoy - husband of Mary Ann "Mollie" Tillis McCoy, buried at the Craig-Douglas Cemetery out at Grimms Landing] |
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| McCoy | Jane Stewart | ca. 1824 | 7 January 1892 | [Wife of Isaiah McCoy] |
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| Other burials possible, though not positively identified - a few other depressions in the ground were seen in March 2009 that may have been graves, though unmarked at the time. | ||||||
| Comments:
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 Dates in Red
above are not inscribed on the tombstone and have either been calculated based
on death date or are as a result of research on the individual.
Calispel Ridge Road ca. ¼ mile
east of McCoy << McCoy Cemetery - the McCoy homestead was located just down the ridge road to the west - the daffodils marking the old farmhouse garden barely visible through the fence on the left side of this photo |
Updated: 07 September 2012