Individual Details
Jesse MCCOY
(Abt 1804 - Mar 1836)
Surname: McCoy
Given Name: Jesse
Sex: M
Birth: 1804 in Missouri
Death: 6 Mar 1836 in Texas, at the Alamo
Marriage 1 Kitty b: 1810 in Texas
Married: 1830 in Texas
The Handbook of Texas Online:http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/MM/fmccp.html, hasthis:
"MCCOY, JESSE (1804-1836). Jesse McCoy, Alamo defender, son of Johnand Martha McCoy, was born at Gyrosburg, Tennessee, in 1804. Heimmigrated to Texas from Missouri as an original settler of DeWitt'scolonyqv on March 9, 1827. He served as the town sheriff of Gonzales.He was mustered into the Gonzales Ranging Company of MountedVolunteers on February 23, 1836, and entered the Alamo with this uniton March 1, 1836. He died in the battle of the Alamoqv on March 6,1836.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Daughters of the American Revolution, The Alamo Heroesand Their Revolutionary Ancestors (San Antonio, 1976). Daughters ofthe Republic of Texas, Muster Rolls of the Texas Revolution (Austin,1986). Bill Groneman, Alamo Defenders (Austin: Eakin, 1990). WalterLord, A Time to Stand (New York: Harper, 1961; 2d ed., Lincoln:University of Nebraska Press, 1978).
Bill Groneman"
Another page has this:http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/gonzalesrangersl-zhtm.htm
Jesse McCoy, 32, born 1804 in Gyrosburg, Tennessee, a resident ofGonzales and Private rifleman in the Gonzales Rangers. He was son ofJohn and Martha Dunbar McCoy who were among the first settlers of theDeWitt Colony at Old Station on the Lavaca. Jesse McCoy arrived withhis parents in the DeWitt Colony on 9 Mar 1827 from MO where hereceived one fourth league. His tract on which he paid his firstinstallment "At Gonzales, this 4th of July 1835, we having beenappointed by the Ayto of Gonzales as Commissioners of the State forcollecting the State dues for lands under the 25 art of the law of the24th of March, 1825 certify that we have been paid the sum of threeDollars and ninety cents and 5/6 in full of first installments inJesse McCoy's Quarter of a league of land deeded to him by theCommissioner Jose Antonio Navarro. Thomas R. Miller Adam Zumwalt B. D.McClure" was on the east bank of the Guadalupe River south of Gonzaleson the current Gonzales-DeWitt County border. The author's 3rd greatgrandparents David and Mary Ann Zumwalt Burket purchased a portion onthe tract after their return in 1837 from the Run Away Scrape. JesseMcCoy's widow was named Kitty.
Jesse McCoy's father and family of four received a sitio of land nextto Jesse McCoy's tract at the same time. Father John "Devil" or"Padre" McCoy as he was known by Indians and the Mexicans,respectively, was the head of the McCoy clan in TX and Indian fighterin LincolnCo, MO before coming to TX. John McCoy and members of theZumwalt family served together in Daniel Boone?s Mounted Rangers in MOand directly under his son Capt. Nathan Boone in LincolnCo, MO. On 12Apr 1834, Jesse McCoy requested "...to have his stock mark and Brandrecorded which he says is as follows--Ear mark a swallow fork in eachear and an under bit in the left, and his brand the letters J and Tjoined which he declares to be his true mark and that he has noother." A claim presented to the House of Representatives and theSenate of the Republic of Texas in Dec 1837 by "Alamo widow" KittyMcCoy suggests that Jesse provided supplies to the young Texas Army:"...the first auditor is authorized to audit the claim of the widowKitty McCoy as per vouchers of Byrd Lockhart and Colonel William H.Patton for beef and corn valued at three hundred and seventy dollarsin military script." Joseph Rowe, Speaker of the House (signed); S.H.Everett, Pres. Pro Tem Senate (signed); Approved by Sam Houston(signed).
Given Name: Jesse
Sex: M
Birth: 1804 in Missouri
Death: 6 Mar 1836 in Texas, at the Alamo
Marriage 1 Kitty b: 1810 in Texas
Married: 1830 in Texas
The Handbook of Texas Online:http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/MM/fmccp.html, hasthis:
"MCCOY, JESSE (1804-1836). Jesse McCoy, Alamo defender, son of Johnand Martha McCoy, was born at Gyrosburg, Tennessee, in 1804. Heimmigrated to Texas from Missouri as an original settler of DeWitt'scolonyqv on March 9, 1827. He served as the town sheriff of Gonzales.He was mustered into the Gonzales Ranging Company of MountedVolunteers on February 23, 1836, and entered the Alamo with this uniton March 1, 1836. He died in the battle of the Alamoqv on March 6,1836.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Daughters of the American Revolution, The Alamo Heroesand Their Revolutionary Ancestors (San Antonio, 1976). Daughters ofthe Republic of Texas, Muster Rolls of the Texas Revolution (Austin,1986). Bill Groneman, Alamo Defenders (Austin: Eakin, 1990). WalterLord, A Time to Stand (New York: Harper, 1961; 2d ed., Lincoln:University of Nebraska Press, 1978).
Bill Groneman"
Another page has this:http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/gonzalesrangersl-zhtm.htm
Jesse McCoy, 32, born 1804 in Gyrosburg, Tennessee, a resident ofGonzales and Private rifleman in the Gonzales Rangers. He was son ofJohn and Martha Dunbar McCoy who were among the first settlers of theDeWitt Colony at Old Station on the Lavaca. Jesse McCoy arrived withhis parents in the DeWitt Colony on 9 Mar 1827 from MO where hereceived one fourth league. His tract on which he paid his firstinstallment "At Gonzales, this 4th of July 1835, we having beenappointed by the Ayto of Gonzales as Commissioners of the State forcollecting the State dues for lands under the 25 art of the law of the24th of March, 1825 certify that we have been paid the sum of threeDollars and ninety cents and 5/6 in full of first installments inJesse McCoy's Quarter of a league of land deeded to him by theCommissioner Jose Antonio Navarro. Thomas R. Miller Adam Zumwalt B. D.McClure" was on the east bank of the Guadalupe River south of Gonzaleson the current Gonzales-DeWitt County border. The author's 3rd greatgrandparents David and Mary Ann Zumwalt Burket purchased a portion onthe tract after their return in 1837 from the Run Away Scrape. JesseMcCoy's widow was named Kitty.
Jesse McCoy's father and family of four received a sitio of land nextto Jesse McCoy's tract at the same time. Father John "Devil" or"Padre" McCoy as he was known by Indians and the Mexicans,respectively, was the head of the McCoy clan in TX and Indian fighterin LincolnCo, MO before coming to TX. John McCoy and members of theZumwalt family served together in Daniel Boone?s Mounted Rangers in MOand directly under his son Capt. Nathan Boone in LincolnCo, MO. On 12Apr 1834, Jesse McCoy requested "...to have his stock mark and Brandrecorded which he says is as follows--Ear mark a swallow fork in eachear and an under bit in the left, and his brand the letters J and Tjoined which he declares to be his true mark and that he has noother." A claim presented to the House of Representatives and theSenate of the Republic of Texas in Dec 1837 by "Alamo widow" KittyMcCoy suggests that Jesse provided supplies to the young Texas Army:"...the first auditor is authorized to audit the claim of the widowKitty McCoy as per vouchers of Byrd Lockhart and Colonel William H.Patton for beef and corn valued at three hundred and seventy dollarsin military script." Joseph Rowe, Speaker of the House (signed); S.H.Everett, Pres. Pro Tem Senate (signed); Approved by Sam Houston(signed).
Events
| Birth | Abt 1804 | Gyrosburg, TN | |||
| Residence | 9 Mar 1827 | Arrived, single, at DeWitt Colony, Texas, according to web site: - 1828census2.htm | |||
| Death | Mar 1836 | The Alamo, TX | |||
| Reference No | 5550 |
Families
| Father | John "Padre" "Devil" MCCOY (1776 - 1838) |
| Mother | Nancy HILL (1776 - ) |
| Sibling | David MCCOY ( - ) |
| Sibling | Margaret MCCOY (1790 - ) |
| Sibling | Joseph Hill MCCOY (1791 - ) |
| Sibling | John MCCOY (1794 - ) |
| Sibling | James MCCOY (1796 - ) |
| Sibling | Thomas MCCOY (1800 - ) |
| Sibling | Timothy MCCOY (1805 - 1843) |
| Sibling | Samuel MCCOY (1806 - ) |