Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1907 — MRS. ALFRED McCOY DEAD. [ARTICLE]

MRS. ALFRED McCOY DEAD.

Expires Suddenly From Heart Failure At Home of Her Daughter Near Queen City, Mo. Addison Parkison received a telegram about 2:15 p. m., Thursday from Queen City, Mo., stating that Mrs. Alfred McCoy had died suddenly from heart failure and would be buried there this (Saturday) afternoon. Mrs. McCoy was a sister of Mr. Parkison’s, and with her husband, Alfred McCoy, the ex-banker of Rensselaer, had been living with her daughter. Mrs. W. A. Rinehart, near Queen City, for several months. Mr. and Mrs. Parkison left yesterday to attend the funeral. Deceased was some 75 years of age and had resided in Rensselaer practioally all her life up to a few months ago. She was held in high esteem here and it is generally understood was in favor of turning over to the creditors all her interest in the real estate owned by the McCoys when their bank went to the wall, and was only prevented from so doing by her husband. No doubt the worry jover the bank failure, the prosecution and conviction of her only son, T. J. McCoy, now serving sentenoe in the Michigan City penitentiary, shortened her days and hastened her gray hairs in sorrow to the grave, to be laid away among praotically strange people in a strange land. Truly, the way of the transgressor is hard.