Lynza John McCoy of Pike County, KY
I am interested in locating any descendants of Lynza John McCoy, son of William R. and Lucinda McCoy, of Pike County, Kentucky. Lynza (name is spelling variously as Lindsey, Linsy, etc.) was born in May of 1850 in Pike County. He married Fatima Daugherty on 14 October 1869 in Pike County. I list three children produced by this marriage but do not recall the source, have any birthdates, and cannot find them in census records so I will omit them here. In the late 1880s, Lynza came to the Harts Creek section of Lincoln County, WV. His brother Green McCoy had migrated there and married Spicie Adkins, d/o Cain and Mariah (Vance) Adkins. Spicie's family recalls that Lynza's name was JOHN (and that Green's name was WILL). On 13 Feb 1889, Lynza married Pumeliphy Parsons in Wayne County, WV. Pumeliphy was approximately 19 years younger than Lynza. In a letter dated 19 May 1889, Green McCoy wrote that "Lynza is married and living in wayne co yet on beech fork..." I have no idea what happened with this marriage -- whether any children were produced, whether it ended with divorce, whether Pumeliphy died... According to family tradition, in July of 1889, Lynza conceived a child with a widow who lived on the West Fork of Harts Creek. This child was born in April of 1890. By that time, Lynza was back in Pike County, KY, where he married Mary A. Dotson on 30 January 1890. After this record, Lynza seems to disappear completely from census records. If anyone has information on this family, I would love to correspond...