McCoy Family Census 1870


1870

The Civil War has brought strife and tumultuous change to our McCoy family. Early in the last decade Union soldiers marched upon the faithful, peaceful, and neutral household of John McCoy, forcibly removing the family with what they could pack into a wagon. The family removed to the relative safety of Van Buren County in Middle Tennessee.

The young sons and sons-in-law, outraged, joined up with the Confederacy at once upon seeing their beloved wives and children re-settled.

McCoy brothers Andrew and George both perished during the war. Andrew�s wife Mary then removed to her father�s household in Knox County Kentucky with her young sons and daughters. We have yet to locate Martha Keith McCoy and the children of George on any 1870 records, although we have located them in later years.

While John and Nancy, along with now-married sons John and Joseph, established homes in Van Buren County Tennessee, where many descendants of John and Nancy Hatfield McCoy reside yet today, the families of William and Martha Hurtt McCoy, Redin and Milley McCoy Smith, and Samuel and Nancy McCoy Swindle had removed to Barren County Kentucky just at the close of the war.

This is the last census upon which John McCoy will appear as he will pass away during the following decade.

Kentucky

Counties: Barren, Knox

Tennessee

Counties: Van Buren


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