When Bessie McCoy was born on 14 December 1902, in Calvert City, Marshall, Kentucky, United States, her father, William Rudolphus McCoy, was 40 and her mother, Naomi Reeves, was 36. She married Raymond Lee Vasseur on 7 April 1923, in Massac, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Briensburg, Marshall, Kentucky, United States in 1920 and Magisterial District 2, Marshall, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. She died on 22 October 1947, in McCracken, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Lakeview Baptist Church Cemetery, Palma, Marshall, Kentucky, United States.
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A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
From 1904-1909, the Black Patch War took place. This was a war between about 30 counties in southwestern Kentucky and northwestern Tennessee. The war was mostly over the Dark Fired Tobacco that was produced in the area during this time.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
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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