When Eunice McCoy was born on 22 December 1781, in North Carolina, United States, her father, Henry Thomas McCoy, was 48 and her mother, Sarah Herndon, was 45. She married Spencer Runnel Bankston in 1799, in Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Hinds, Mississippi, United States in 1850. She died on 15 October 1852, in Raymond, Hinds, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Raymond Cemetery, Raymond, Hinds, Mississippi, United States.
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On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state in the Union.
The �Mississippi territory existed from April 7, 1798, to December 10, 1817, when the western half became the state of Mississippi and the eastern half became Alabama Territory. The territory was given up by Spain through the Treaty of Madrid.
In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase it made it so that the Mississippi River would be opened to commerce. The stretch of land includes present day Mississippi, Louisiana, and continues Northward.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Aoidh ‘son of Aodh’, an old personal name meaning ‘fire’, originally the name of a pagan god. Thus it has the same origin as McGee , McKay , and McKee . It has sometimes been Anglicized as Hughes .
History: The McCoy clan of KY, led by Randolph McCoy, was involved in one of the bitterest mountain feuds, with the Hatfield clan of WV, from the Civil War to the end of the 19th century. The expression ‘the real McCoy’ probably originated with an American boxer, Norman Selby (1873–1940), who adopted the name “Kid McCoy” to distinguish himself from another fighter of the same name.
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