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Tulare County, California Death Certificate Transcription:

Name: McCOY, James Walter
Date of Birth: January 6, 1878
Place of Birth: California
Date of Death: December 31, 1959 at 81 years of age
Place of Death: At home at 29878 Road 210 in Exeter, Tulare Co., CA
Social Security Number: # 561-03-4009
Veteran ?
Sex: Male
Color or Race: Caucasian
Single, Married, Widowed or Divorced: ???
Name of Husband or Wife: ???
Usual Occupation: Laborer for Van Cleve Pipe Co.
Industry: Cement Pipe Mfg.
Father?s Name: Oliver McCoy
Father?s Place of Birth: Missouri
Mother?s Maiden Name: Maggie Cowyer
Mother?s Place of Birth: Canada
Informant: Misc. Papers
Informant?s Address:
Usual Residence of Deceased:
Immediate Cause of Death: Cerebral Edema, Marked Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease
Due To: Cirrhosis of liver (Fatty Stage) and Generalized Arteriosclerosis
Due To: by Sheriff/Coroner Sandy Robinson
Other Conditions:
Burial, Cremation or Removal: Burial
Place of Burial: Exeter District Cemetery in Exeter, CA
Date of Burial: January 6, 1960
Funeral Home: Hadley Funeral Home in Exeter, CA

Transcribed by H. Neil Smith


Obituary in the Exeter Sun Wed., January 6, 1960: "J. Walter McCoy,Member of Early Family, Succumbs.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at the Hadley chapel here for James Walter McCoy, member of a pioneer San Joaquin valley family who was found dead at his home at the Van Cleve pipe yard New Year's morning. He would have been 82 today.
Burial will be in the Exeter cemetery.
Mr. McCoy was born in 1878 in Stanislaus county. The next year his father, Oliver S. McCoy, and several of his uncles moved their families to Kings county and acquired the Water Witch, a sailboat which had been brought into Tulare lake. With it they caught terrapin for shipment to San Francisco and they also hunted wild ducks and geese commercially. Oliver McCoy was killed by an Indian near Kernville in 1893 while assisting a deputy sheriff who had gone to an Indian camp to arrest one of its occupants for burning a haystack.
Walter McCoy came to Exeter about 40 years ago and for more than 30 years was employed at the Van Cleve pipe yard, retiring about eight years ago.
Survivors include a sister-in-law, Mrs. Veda McCoy, of Monterey, and the following nieces and nephews: Zylpha McCoy of Monterey, Oliver McCoy, Lee Worthley, and LaWayne Miller of Visalia; Everett Duncan of Porterville, and two nieces and a nephew who live in Ventura."

Copy of the obituary is in the possession of the author.

Birth	6 Jan 1878	Stanislaus Co., California
Census	1 Jun 1880	Lemoore, Tulare Co., CA, ED100, Supr Dist 4, printed page 84, family 184, enumeration date 5 July 1880. Wallace [sic], 1 (1878-79), born CA father born "Miss." mother born Canada.
Marriage	16 Aug 1910	Los Angeles Co., California - Miltie Helen SEVIER
Military	12 Sep 1918	World War I Draft Registration card: James Walter McCoy, born 6 Jan
Residence	Abt 1920	Moved to Exeter
Census	1 Jan 1920	Lemon Cove Twp., Tulare Co., CA, ED 205 Sh 6B; Walter McCoy, 37 (1882) single, born CA both parents born United States, farm laborer on fruit farm.
Census	1 Apr 1930	Exeter Twp., Tulare Co., CA, ED 25 Sh 1B; Walter J. McCoy, Boarder, 48 (1881-82), divorced, 24 at first marriage, born CA father born MO mother born United States. Laborer at concrete plant. In home of Edward C. Colman.
Death	31 Dec 1959	Tulare Co., California
Burial	6 Jan 1960	Exeter Cem., Exeter, Tulare Co., CA
Reference No		833

Spouse

Miltie Helen SEVIER ( - )

Father	Oliver Stephens MCCOY (1849 - 1891)
Mother	Maggie COYIER (1850 - 1888)
Sibling	Robins Barney MCCOY (1874 - 1947)
Sibling	John MCCOY (1876 - 1881)
Sibling	Lemore (Lee) MCCOY (1879 - 1892)
Sibling	Ida May MCCOY (1881 - 1947)
Sibling	Lillie Belle MCCOY (1884 - 1958)
Sibling	Olyve Cowyer MCCOY (1888 - 1926)