Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1907 — Funeral Of Mrs. Alfred McCoy. [ARTICLE]

Funeral Of Mrs. Alfred McCoy.

The funeral of Mrs. Mary Jane McCoy, wUe pi Alfred McCoy, was held last Saturday afternoon, at Queen City, Mo., and was largely attended. The burial services, at the cemetery at that place, were not held until 10 a. m. Sunday, owing so the non-arrival of expected relatives. The cause of her death was a sudden attack of heart failure, and she had been in usual health until about two hours before the attack. She had been in delicate health for many years, but the newspaper report which was widely circulated that she died of grief over recent troubles which overtook the family, seems o have been the unauthcrized statement of some newspaper reporter. Mrs. McCoy was a little more than 72 years old, and was born in Ohio but came with her parents to Jasper county when about two two years old and was a constant resident of the county until less than a year ago, when she went to Queen City to live with her daughter, Mrs. Mattie Binehart. She was a daughter of John G. and Matilda Parkison and a granddaughter of General Simon Kenton the noted pioneer and Indian fighter, and companion of Daniel Boone. She is survived by her husband, one son, T. J. McCoy and the daughter, above mentioned. Also by two brothers and one sister, Addison Parkison, of Rensselaer, Joseph V. Parkison, of Bucklin, Kansas, and Mrs. Isabel Parker of Frankfort, Ind.