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Listed as "adopted daughter"

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Enlisted for service in the Civil War on 22 Oct 1861 and served until August 14, 1865. He retired as a veteran with the rank of Sergeant from Co K, 55th Illinois Regiment.

Flags: Veteran=Y

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Appears in 1892 Iowa Farmers Index, Fremont County, Faragut listings.

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Occupation: Farmer

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Clay Coy gives death date as 5 March 1865.

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Does not appear in 1850 Knox Co census with her family.

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Last known in Texas

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The name Coy is traceable at least to the year 1217, but is obscure in origin. It perhaps is a derivative of the French Norman de Quoye and went to England at the time of William the Conqueror in 1066. Others place it as Quoy, or Cow, and Saxon in origin. Indeed, there is a Stowe-cum-Quoy in Cambridgeshire, an area in ancient times of fens, or marshes, sprinkled with islands and which were not drained and cultivated until a later age.

It is first identified in the church records of a chapel in the parish of Stowe in 1273 when Felicede, Walkelin and Ralph de Quoye are noted. Notice that of the three names, two are Norman and one Saxon in origin. The name appears to have spread extensively to the Isle of Wight, Scotland and Ireland. Although another branch of the family apparently left Lincolnshire for America circa 1638, about 1608,it is claimed some Coy's migrated to Germany. This was the time of the transplantations by King James of English Protestants onto Irish Catholic lands which may have been the impetus. We do know that appears in the parish records of Zell, Reil, Carrey andn Kaimt in the upper Rhineland, between Trier and Coblenz, numerous Coys. (the name may have been spelled Keaghey).

Under what circumstances Jacob and Susana Coy determined to leave Germany, circa 1738, is undetermined. War, pestilence, lack of opportunity? Regardless, they and their six children set out for the new world. Unfortunately both parents died at sea and the eldest, Jacob Jr., inherited the responsibility for his siblings: John, Peter, Susanna, Henry and Mary.

Exhaustive searches of pre-revolutionary records reveal little about the family except that John, this family's direct line, was born circa 1725 in Germany, and settled in Somerset county, Maryland. There is a woods named "Coy's Folly" listed in a very early Maryland colonial land record.

Of his sons, only John is identified. He, together with his sons John Jr., Daniel, Christopher and David William (the direct line) served in the Revolutionary War. The latter two enlisted in Smallwood's Immortals. At least John Sr. and John Jr., Christopher and David William moved onto the James River area of Virginia (1779), Buckingham Co, Va (1779), Garrard Co, KY (1787) and about 1826 to Switzerland Cop, Indiana. John Coy (presumably John Sr) was granted 400 acres of land in Jefferson County, Virginia as a Revolutionary War land bounty.

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Resident of Keota Oklahoma for the past 30 years. Farmer. Baptist.

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Will names wife Comfort, sons Amos, John, Moses, daughters, Phebe Edlin, Ruth VanWinkle, Nancy Marshall, Margaret Crady, Sarah Sheckles, and includes a bequest to Daniel Coy's heirs. Benjamin is not listed, and Amos is named Executor. The witnesses to John's will were Saml. Miller and James Shekel. James might have been the husband of John's daughter, Sarah. The Appraisal of John's estate was completed on 4 Dec 1817 by Peter Atherton, James Edlin and Saml. Miller. The estate sale was held the following day, with these people listed as purchasers: Comfort Coy, Amos Coy, John Edlin, Thomas Crady, Robard Marshall, Margaret Crady, Abram Dewitt, Elijah Daly, Moses Coy, John Coy, Samuel Miller, Richard Cutright, Elias Johnson, Peter Atherton, Thomas Dever, Sharp Spencer, Benjamin Coy, Mathew Duncan, Daniel Cotton, John Davis, John Worthen, William Crady, Ann Coy, James Hancock, Simon Hill, Joseph Spencer, Ann Marshall, James Shekel, Jacob Dewitt, Stephen Greenwell, Christopher Beeler, Dorsey Beeler, Peter Bell and Frank Burch. This list of purchasers appears on page 112 of Will Book C., Hardin County.

The text of the will reads as follows: I John COY of Hardin County and State of Kentucky, being in a low state of health, but of perfect mind, do constitute this my last will and Testament with is as follows to wit; First, my Will and desire is for all my lawful debts to be paid by my Executors hereafter mentioned. I will and bequeath unto my beloved wife, Cumfot COY, the one third of my personal estate forever for her and her heirs and also the one third part of the plantation that I now lives on during her natural life. I will and bequeath unto my beloved son, Amos COY, the plantation that I now lives on, sepos'd to be one hundred acres and also one Horse known by the name of the Bay Horse. The Ballance of my Estate to be equally divided among my Eight Children to wit; John COY, Moses COY, Phebe EDLIN, Ruth VANWIKLE, Nancy MARSHALL, Margaret CRADY, and Sarah SHECKLES heirs and Daniel COYs heirs. I do hereby constitute my son, Amos COY, my Executor of this my Last Will and Testament. And I do hereby disannul all other Wills heretofore made by me, and do pronounce this my last Will and Testament. And in Testimony whereof I do afix my hand and seal in the presence of the subscribing witnesses this fith day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. Sign'd Seal'd in the presents of us; N.B. The word Moses COY interlined in the forteenth line before sin'd. Witnesses Saml. Miller, James SHEKELL. His Mark (John L Coy).

The Appraisal of John Coy's estate went as follows:
One cupboard $15.00 One rifle Gun $23.00
Shoemakers Tolls 1.25 Pewter dishes Bason plates & spoons 7.00
Crockeware 1.50 One Rasine & Strop .75
Books 1.25 Teaware & Bowls knives & forks&plates2.00
Steelyards 2.00 Three Boocher knives & tomahawk 2.00
One table 2.50 One smoothing iron, ladle shears&Hoan1.50
One bed quilt 5.00 Three pair of Cards and yarn 3.00
One sheet and bed spread 5.00 Eight cheers 3.00
One chest 3.50 One bedstead bed and bedding 20.00
One looking glass&cloth 2.00