Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1908 — ALFRED McCOY IS DEAD. [ARTICLE]

ALFRED McCOY IS DEAD.

Former Rensselaer Banker Dies at Home of Daughter in Queen C|ty, Missouri. Telegrams were received here Thursday from Mrs. W. A. Rinehart of Queen City, Mo., that her father, Alfred McCoy, was dead, and the funeral would be held there today. No particulars of his death have been received as y<et regarding the cause. He was in the neighborhood of 78 years of age, and Wince the bank trial he has been living there with hia daughter, Mrs. RineharV Mrs. McCoy died a year or more ago and is burled at Queen City, where Mr. McCoy will also be buried.

Mr. McCoy leaves but one near relative, George McCoy, a brother of Hanging Grove tp. He had resided in Rensselaer for about a half century prior to the McCoy bank failure which marked the downfall of the McCoys. Tom McCoy Is still in the penitentiary at Michigan City, and since* his incarceration there both his mother and father have passed away. Tom was allowed to attend his funeral, under the escort of a prison official, and will probably be allowed to attend his father's funeral today. Mrs. A. Parklson was the only one from here to go to the funeral, and she left Thursday . afternoon for Queen City.