Thomas   Brownfield McCoy

'mccoy-thomas-broomfield' Picture Notes Thomas McCoy 'mccoy home farm' Picture Notes The homstead of Thomas and Sara McCoy 'mccoy-thomas-sara-clayton' Picture Notes Sara (Flanagan) McCoy, Thomas McCoy, Clayton Querry This picture, 'mccoy-thomas-flannagan-sara-grave', was taken in 2001. Picture Notes Grave marker for Thomas McCoy, Sara (Flanagan) McCoy This picture, 'McCoy-Thomas-estate-executor0001', was taken on April 21st, 2011 in 21 Meadowood, Lane, Old Saybrook, CT. Picture Notes Certificate of Appointment, dated 27 May 1933, of Sarah (Flanagan) McCoy as administrator of the Thomas McCoy estate.

Thomas   was born on May 18th, 1842.  Thomas  's father was James McCoy and his mother was Margaret Graham.  His paternal grandparents were John  Thomas McCoy and Ruth Gaddis. He had three brothers and six sisters, named Joseph James, James, Casper Orth, Mary Ann, Margaret, Elizabeth, Jane, Martha and Martha.  He was the youngest of the ten children.  He died at the age of 88 on February 5th, 1931.

• Death Notes

  Born in LeClaire, Scott County, Iowa, USA
  
  Buried in Ellsworth City Cemetery, Ellsworth, Ellsworth County, Kansas, USA

• General Notes

  Sources: Will of Thomas B. McCoy Ellsworth County Courthouse.  1880 Census and Obituary
  When a young man of 18 years, Thomas crossed the plains from Omaha, Neb to Central City,Co with a wagon train.  He remained in Central City two years working in a gold mine. Returning to the state of his birth he again joined an emigrant train bound for Oregon.  From Oregon he went down the coast to Calif. where he secured employment as a stage driver. Again returning to Iowa he was united im marriage to Sarah Margaret lanangan. Four years later with his wife
  and son he came to Kansas in a covered wagon and on June 1878 the same year they located on a farm in Garfield township. Here the family labored through all the hardships of the early days and this continued to be Mr McCoys home until his death. All through the years he was active about the farm until Aug when he suffered an accident, breaking an arm and a leg, from which he never fully recovered.
  Mr. McCoy was a typical westerner in appearance, speech, and character. His was a broad, friendly, hospitable attitude toward all with whom he came in contact that prevailed in the pioneer days among the people of the new west.
  
  
  PIONEER OF NEW WEST
  
  Crossed the Plains by Ox Team When He Was Eighteen Years Old.
  
  Life's journey came to an end for another pioneer of Ellsworth County, the last of the early settlers in his part of the county, with the death of Thomas Brownfield McCoy, at his home in Garfield Township, this county, Thursday morning, February 5, 1931.
  
  Mr. McCoy was a typical westerner in appearance, speech and character.  His was that broad friendly hospitable attitude toward all with whom he came in contact that prevailed in the pioneer days among the people of the new West.
  
  Born at Le Claire, Scott County Iowa, May 18, 1842, in the days when Iowa was still a territory, and a part of the great unknown West.  He became, at an early age, imbued with a desire to see, explore, and know more of what was beyond, towards the setting sun.
  
  He was only 18 when he crossed the plains by ox team from Omaha to Central City, Colo.  He worked in a gold mine there for two years, and then returned to Iowa.  The wanderlust in his blood caused him to join an immigrant train for Oregon in the spring of 1863.  He drifted down the coast of California, where he fround employment for a number of years as a stage driver, a calling dangerous and hazardous in those early days, yet one that appealed to him, because of his love for the great out-of-doors.
  
  Returning to Iowa in 1873, he was united in marriage, March 7, that year, to Sarah Margaret Flanagan at Glenwood, Iowa.
  
  Four years later, with his wife and son, he again took up his march west, this time coming to Kansas.  They came in a covered wagon, and in June, 1878, located on the farm that proved to be the home up to the time of Mr. McCoy's death.
  
  He and his good wife went through all the trials, hardships and privations incident to the pioneer life of fifty and sixty years ago.  They worked hare, reared a large family and felt that Providence was good to them in giving them what they had.
  
  Last August Mr. McCoy fell, breaking an arm and a leg.  At his age this proved serious.  He had improved slowly, and was able at times to get about the house with the aid of crutches.
  
  Lately, however, he began to fail.  Death came peacefully Thursday morning.
  
  
  Eleven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. McCoy.  Six of them survive their father.  Besides the widow the surviving children are Fred McCoy of Craigmount, Idaho; Harry McCoy of Burlington, Colorado; Mrs. George Thayer, of Lincoln; Mrs. C. J. McDonough, of Shelby, Montana; and Ralph McCoy and Mrs. Ralph Gregory of Ellsworth.
  
  The Rev. Fred Blanding conducted the funeral services at the McCoy home Saturday afternoon, at two O'clock.  It was largely attended.  Burial was in the Ellsworth cemetery.
  
  McCoy Homestead in Ellsworth, Kansas
  
  The following statements were determined from the documents that are a part of the Bessie (McCoy) Gregory estate, the Will of Thomas B. McCoy Ellsworth County Courthouse and the 1880 Census and Obituary.
  
  1. 1878 - Thomas B. McCoy and Sarah (Flanagan) McCoy settled on a farm in Garfield township, Dickinson County, Kansas.
  
  2. 1888 -    Thomas B. McCoy and Sarah (Flanagan) McCoy:
  
       • 2 July - Obtained the first part, $45.00 mortgage from the Central Loan & Land Company, Emporia, Kansas for the purchase of 160 acres located in the Southwest quarter of section 17 of township 14 (South of range 7) Ellsworth County, Kansas.
       • 2 July - Obtained the second part $300.00 mortgage from the Central Loan & Land Company, Emporia, Kansas for the 160 acres described above.
       • 24 July - Recorded the above transaction with the Ellsworth County Register of Deeds.
       • 28 Aug - The Central Loan and Land Co. transferred the $300.00 mortgage to Samuel G. Beardsley Sr.
  
  3.  1889 -    Thomas B. McCoy and Sarah (Flanagan) McCoy completed repayment of the $45.00 loan to the Central Loan and Land Company.
  
  4.  1891 -    10 December Samuel Beardsley passed away and the $300.00 loan became a part of his estate.
  
  5.  1893 -    3 June Thomas B. McCoy and Sarah (Flanagan) McCoy completed repayment of the $300.00 loan to the Samuel Beardsley estate.
  
  6.  1920 -    25 September Ludvix Warta and Merj Warta sold the south half of lot 17 and all of lots 18 and 19 in block 39, Ellsworth County, Kansas to John Geddis, Sr.  NOTE:  Thomas B. McCoy and Sarah (Flanagan) McCoy owned 160 acres of the Southwest quarter of section (Lot) 17.
  
  7.  1931 -    2 September John Geddis, Sr. paid $102.69 delinquent property taxes.
  
  24 September John Geddis, Sr. sold the south half of lot 17 and all of lots 18 and 19 in block 39, Ellsworth County, Kansas to Sarah M. McCoy for $1.00.
  
  

Details of Thomas  's family with Sarah   Margaret Flanagan

Details of Thomas  's family with Sarah   Margaret Flanagan