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Below is a family biography included in The History of Adams County, Illinois published by Murray, Williamson & Phelps in 1879. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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McCOY, JOHN D., farmer and breeder of Durham cattle; Sec. 34; P.O. Clayton; son of John and Martha McCoy, both of Kentucky. They came to Illinois and settled in Concord township, Adams county, in 1833. Mr. McCoy was born in that township, March 13, 1844; removed to Brown county in 1872; remained there until the spring of 1878, then removed to Clayton; married Eliza Hoskins, Sept. 6, 1864. She was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, Feb. 14, 1845. Have two children: Pearl L., born March 23, ‘68, and Mary E., born March 18, 1873. Enlisted in Co. E, 10th Regt. Ill. Inf., April 17, 1861 (was the seventeenth man enlisted in the state by Gen. Prentiss); served one year; re-enlisted in Co. E, 70th Regt. Ill. Inf.; served four months; again re-enlisted, Feb. 5, 1865, in Co. K, 151st Regt. Ill. Inf ; served one year, and was mustered out, Feb. 8, 1866. He owns sixty-eight acres of land; devotes special attention to breeding blooded cattle.
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