• General Notes

  Isaac McCoy, fourth son, married Lydia Gaddis, daughter of Col. Gaddis, who married a sister Elizabeth Royse, wife of Rev. William McCoy. They had a family of three sons and one daughter, viz: James Thomas, John and Lydia. This branch of the family seems to have been lost to the other for 70 or 75 years dating from the removal of Rev. William McCoy, Isaac's brother, to Kentucky. However, we learned that Isaac McCoy died in Pennsylvania from the effects of a kick from a colt on his knee. A legend has been told, that his son James had a vision of the spirit of this father, who requested him to visit hi Uncle William, in Kentucky, which he did, and held a private interview with his uncle. This interview William, though often entreated, never communicated to any one. James died in Pennsylvania soon after his return from his visit to his Uncle William in Kentucky. The care of the widowed mother and family then fell on Thomas, who cared for his mother until her death. In the mean time his brother John and sister Lydia died. Thomas at the death of his mother had become advanced in years, and was called an old bachelor. After his mother's death he came out to Ohio where his Uncle George and grandfather Gaddis lived. Here he married Miss Mary Ann Smith 16 years younger than himself about 1825. In 1853 Thomas came to Johnson Co., Ind. 10 miles ( Franklin- ( ) he moved near Terre Haute, where he died in 1862.
  

Details of Lydia's family with Isaac McCoy