Isaac H. McCoy (1845 - 1885)

Born 26 Jan 1845 in Clark, Indiana, United States

Died 16 May 1885 at age 40 in Montgomery, Kansas, United States

Biography

Married Emma C. (Chase) McCoy (1851-1941) (m. 1873)

Drowned

Franklin Jeffersonian, Thursday, May 28, 1885, Volume 41, Number 22, page 5, column 4

From the Star and Kansan, we learn of a most unprecedented flood in Montgomery county, Kansas, involving the loss of five lives, and thousands of dollars’ worth of property, besides a total destruction of growing crops in the fertile valleys of the Elk river and small streams. The whole country was suddenly converted into an inland sea, and the water in many places was two feet deep on the level prairie. Among the five persons drowned was Dr. J. H. McCoy, brother of W. H. McCoy of this city. The Dr. and a young man named Greer had hastily constructed a square box boat and rescued a large number of people and much property. In the afternoon, Mr. McCoy and John E. Rice attempted to take a widow named Eliza Woods, her little boy six or seven years old, and another boy about the same age, to a place of safety when the boat went down, and all were drowned. The bodies were all found in the evening a short distance from where they went down in Card creek. Dr. McCoy was born in Clark County, Ind., Jan 26th 1845 and was married to Miss Emma Chase Feb. 11, 1873. He attended Franklin college, studied medicine and graduated at Rush Medical college, Chicago. Owing to his health he had abandoned the practice and was engaged in farming at the time of his sad death.

Sources

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