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THOMAS McCOY, farmer, post office Chartiers, son of Thomas and Elizabeth McCoy, was born in 1841, on a part of the old family homestead, formerly owned by his grandfather, John McCoy, who came to Allegheny county, Pa., prior to 1800; owned and left to his children at his death 700 acres of land, was married to Sarah King, by whom he had five children — Mary, Elizabeth, William, Sarah and Thomas (all now deceased), and died from the effects of a kick of a horse; his widow died in 1831. Their son, Thomas, Sr., was born on the homestead in Stowe township, in 1808. He inherited one share of the farm, and followed agricultural pursuits all his life. He married, in 1827, Elizabeth (daughter of John and Mary Wilson), of this county, and they had eight children: Sarah K., John W., Robert, Nancy, William, Mary, Thomas and Jane; all living except Robert and Jane. William was in the 1st Maryland Cavalry during the civil war. Thomas McCoy, Sr.. assisted in building the Union U. P. Church, of which he and his wife were members, He died in 1850, at the age of forty-two years; his widow is living with her son Thomas, still active and vigorous, at the advanced age of eighty-six years. Thomas McCoy, Jr., was reared on the old homestead, and received a good common-school education. He was married in 1875, to Isabella Cornwith, of Cincinnati, Ohio, daughter of Andrew and Margaret Cornwith, and he and his wife are members of the U. P. Church, Rev. J. A. Douthet, minister. They had four children: Bessie A., William J., Sarah J. (deceased) and Thomas W. Mr. McCoy has been school director fifteen years; was elected justice of the peace in 1884, for five years, and is at present assessor of Stowe township. He owns sixty-two acres of the old homestead, a house and lot at Chartiers, and some stock in Point bridge. He is a republican.