Photo of tombstone of Joseph McCoy, Jr., husband of Jane Martin McCoy, father of John William McCoy. Joseph died 1 Nov 1877 aged 91 years 8 months and 13 days. Photo taken by Carol P. McCoy June 2003 in the Polly Archer Confederate Cemetery south of Middlebourne, Tyler Co. WV. This cemetery is in the middle of a cow pasture in back of a dairy farm. It is removed from the Archer Chapel Cemetery, which contains the remains the Union Sympathizers in the Civil War. Joseph McCoy is buried next to his wife, Jane Martin, whose stone has fallen over. He is near to his oldest son, James Charles McCoy. Also in the confederate cemetery is Roberta Laidley, who died as a young woman, daughter of Margaret McCoy and George S. Laidley. |