When Elmira Caroline McCoy was born on 26 February 1853, in Howard, Indiana, United States, her father, Joseph Gilbert McCoy, was 33 and her mother, Laodicea Hollingsworth, was 36. She married Allen Kenworthy on 12 September 1872, in Howard, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Valley Township, Morris, Kansas, United States in 1880 and Marion Township, Owen, Indiana, United States in 1900. She died on 19 December 1900, in Howard, Indiana, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Friends Cemetery, New London, Monroe Township, Howard, Indiana, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1855: Wise, Kansas Territory, United States 1859: Morris, Kansas Territory, United States* 1861: Morris, Kansas, United States *Wise renamed Morris in 1859
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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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