General Notes

parents:  James M. McCoy (1811–1871) and Mary Ann Moore (1815-about 1844).

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ notes from Judith Bling:

1860 US CENSUS, EL MONTE, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Name: Henson Mccoy, age 27, born in Illinois, farmer; Clarissa, age 28, born in Missouri; George A. age 7, born in Missouri; Amanda E., age 3, born in Texas; Sarah J. age 1, born in Texas; Living With:  George W. Hall, age 9, born in Missouri; James W. Hall, age 7, born in Missouri; Wm N. McCoy, age 21, born in Illinois; Mary A. McCoy, age 16, born in Missouri.  Roll: M653_59; Page: 257.

Questions and Comments: The 1860 census shows both George A. McCoy and James W. Hall as 7 yrs old.  George disappears in the next census.  May be the same person?  Since Clarissa was the mother of both it would have been a tight squeeze to give birth to James, get married in March to Henson and give birth to George all in the same year.  Wm N. McCoy and Mary A. McCoy must be siblings of Henson's. George and James Hall are Clarissa's children from her first marriage to William Hall.
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1870 CENSUS, VISALIA, TULARE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA:  Henson McCoy, age 37, value of real estate $3,000; value of personal property $1,200, Farmer, born in Illinois; Frances McCoy, age 39, Keeping House, born in Missouri; Amanda E. McCoy, age 13, at Home, born in Texas; Sarah J.McCoy, age 12, At Home, born in Texas; Thomas J.McCoy, age 9, born in California; William H. McCoy, age 7, born in Oregon; John Lee McCoy, age 4, born in Oregon; Barbary McCoy, age 3, born in California; Living with them:  George H. Hall, age 19, born in Missouri; James H. Hall, age 18, born in Missouri.  Roll: M593_92; Page: 281; Image: 556; Year: 1870

Comments: Frances is Clarissa's middle name.  It seems as though this family likes to use middle names.  Clearly it is William H. instead of William B.  John Lee must be John Barton McCoy.  Barbary must be Missouri "Zoodie" Barbara.  Somewhere between 1860-70, William and Mary disappear (probably married). Yes!

Henson & Clarissa's daughter, Mary (born in MO, 1854) does NOT appear on either the 1860 or 1870 census.  Curious.  Maybe previous researchers thought Henson's sister was his daughter?
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1880 CENSUS,  WASCO COUNTY, OAK GROVE TWP, OREGON, p. 281, ID # OR16629565; Census Place: Fifteen-Mile, Wasco, Oregon; Source: FHL Film 1255084  National Archives Film T9-1084, Page 281A: Information is in the following order:  Relation, Sex, Married/Single, Race, Age, Birthplace.  Henson McCoy, Self, M, M, W, 49, IN; F. Clarissa McCoy, Wife, F, M, W, 49, MO; J. Thomas McCoy,  Son, M, S, W, 19, CA; B. William McCoy, Son, M, W, 17, Oregon; B. John McCoy,  Son, M, W, 15, Oregon; B. Missouri McCoy, Daughter, F, S, W, 13, CA; M. Nancy McCoy, Daughter, F, S, W, 11, CA;  B. Joseph McCoy,  Son, M, S, W, 9, CA; Dennis McCoy, Son, M, S, W, 7.
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Texas Land Title Abstracts, District: Robertson, County: Tarrant, Grantee: Henson McCoy, Certificate: 20, Patentee: Henson McCoy, Patent Date: 30 Sep 1862, Patent #: 539, Patent Volume: 35, Acres: 160, Class:   Rob. 3rd., File: 3701
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Patentee Name State County Issue Date Land Office Doc. Nr. Accession/Serial Nr.
MCCOY, HENSON  CA  Tulare  5/15/1877  Assigned For Automation  2954  CACAAA 126392 [80 acres]
MCCOY, HENSON  CA  Tulare  11/18/1872  Assigned For Automation  97  CACAAA 125553  [151.74 acres]
MCCOY, HENSON  Oregon  Wasco  4/9/1892  The Dalles  42  ORTDAA 062043  [162.05 acres]
MCCOY, HENSON  Oregon  Wasco  4/27/1897  The Dalles  4327  ORTDAA 062325 [240 acres]
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The following is from:  An Illustrated History of Central Oregon embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler, Crook, Lake and Klamath Counties.  State of Oregon. Western Historical Publishing Company, Spokane, WA. 1905.

"HENSON McCOY, deceased.  Among the most honored citizens of Wasco county is to be placed the gentleman whose name heads this memoir.  He was born in Illinois, on November 17, 1833, and died in Wasco county, at Dufur, on October 27, 1898.  His parents, James M. and Mary A. (Moore) McCoy, were natives of Kentucky.  The father's people had been pioneers for several generations previous.  They were frontiersmen in Virginia, Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri.  He died in Texas.  The mother's family also were pioneers for generations.  Our subject was but four years of age when they came to Missouri, where he grew to  manhood and married, and thence he, with his wife and father, went on to Texas, his mother having died in Missouri.  In 1858 they made the trip across the plains with ox teams to California, subject and wife, and had a hard time, losing much of their stock.  Although others were very sick, still they were not sick, themselves.  Two years were spent in Los Angeles and there he lost eight hundred dollars in buying a bogus Spanish grant piece of land.  With low funds they started north and finally landed in Yamhill county, Oregon.  They bought and sold land, and rented some then returned to California, settling in Tulare County, where they purchased seven hundred acres of land.  After eleven years of labor there they sold that property and came back to Oregon in 1878.  Here Mr. McCoy bought school land, took a timber culture and so forth until he had an estate of five hundred and sixty acres a little way our from Boyd, where the widow resides at this time.  Just before his death sold eighty to one son.  Here he bestowed his labors until the time came for him to lay down the burdens of life.  This he did with the same assurance of the faith which had buoyed him through a long Christian life.  Formerly, he was a member of the Methodist Church but in later years was with the Baptist denomination."

"On January 29, 1853, in Linn County, Missouri, Mr. McCoy married Miss Clarissa Rusher, who was born in Chariton County, Missouri, on November  5, 1832.  Her father, William Rusher, was born in Kentucky from an old Virginia family, which came in early colonial days.  He married Mary A. Sportsman, a native of Kentucky.  Her mother was born in Virginia and her father in Ireland, whence he was brought to the United States when seven, being an orphan.  Mrs. McCoy's father died when she was four and her mother died in Los Angeles, having crossed the plains with them.  Mr. McCoy had four half-brothers, Benjamin F., Joseph, Francis M. and Abner, and one sister, Mrs. Mary A. Fogle.  Mrs. McCoy has one half-sister, Mrs. Ellen Neal, and one sister, Mrs. Sarah A. Shakely, and one half-brother, William L. Barnes.  To Mr. and Mrs. McCoy, ten children were born:  Thomas, a barber in Seattle; William, a physician in Salt Lake City; John, at Cripple Creek, Colorado; Joseph H., near by on a farm; Dennis R., with his mother; Mary A., the wife of John H. Sternweis, near by; Ellen, the wife of Abraham Mowery, in Portland; Sarah J., the wife of Isaac Fowler, a carpenter in Portland; Nancy, the wife of Herbert Powell, at Rockland, Washington; Zoodie B., the wife of Albert Connelly.  Her death occurred at The Dalles, in 1892.  Mr. McCoy was for forty years a member of the I.O.O.F., had passed all the chairs, was at the grand lodge many times and took a prominent part in fraternal circles.  He was a prominent man in the community, had always taken an active part in politics, public matters, and educational affairs, had held various offices and was greatly respected and beloved.  He was a man of marked integrity, and his influence was always for good.  He did much, both in person and by example, for the building up of the community in every way, and his death was a great loss.  His widow resides on the farm and is a devout Christian lady, whose life has been a light to many."
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  Burial Notes

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