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MARTIN MCCOY, farmer was born in Licking county, Ohio, January 4, 1848, son of Mathew and Margaret (Yates) McCoy, natives of Pennsylvania, where they were married, and three children were born, George, Robert and Eliza. His parents emigrated to Ohio about 1836, where six more children were born; Mary, Lucinda, Martha, Roenna, Catharine and Martin. In the spring of 1835, he removed to Sangamon county. Shortly after arriving he returned to Ohio on business, when he died. Mrs. Margaret died some years before. They were members of the M.E. church. Martin married Miss Annie F. Brown, a daughter of Benjamin F. Brown. She was born in Fancy Creek township, June 17, 1853. By this union there were two children living, Walter O. and Irena. Mr. McCoy has one hundred and twenty-one acres of land, valued at $75 per acre. Raises fifty acres of corn, twenty acres of wheat, twenty-eight head of stock, eleven head of horses. In the fall of 1862, enlisted in the Seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company C, and participated in the battles of Fort Donalson, Shiloh, Jackson, Mississippi, siege of Vicksburg, and was on the march to the sea, and march to Washington and review, was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, and discharged at Camp Chase, Ohio; was in the service nearly three years.