SERVICES FOR LYKENS VET, 82
JACOB B. McCOY, October 7 [1929] – Funeral services for Jacob B. McCoy, 82, a Civil War veteran, who died Friday, will be held at the home here at 7:30 o’clock this evening, with additional services in the Chestnut Street Methodist Church, Shamokin, tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock. The Rev. Clyde Holstein, pastor of the Lykens Methodist Church, will officiate at both services. Burial will be in the Shamokin Cemetery.
McCoy was one of the five surviving Civil War veterans in Lykens. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias.
He is survived by his second wife, Mrs. Bessie [Love] McCoy, formerly of Cornwall, England, to whom he was married in 1917; a son, Willis McCoy, of Shamokin; five step-sons, James Hall, Binghamton, New York; Alfred Hall, Hamilton Square, New Jersey; George Hall, St. Louis, Missouri; William Hall, Mahanoy City; and Richard Hall, Conklin, New York; seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
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From a local newspaper at the time of his death, 1929.
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