The first to be buried in the New McCoy Cemetery was Ella McCoy Meadows, wife of Gallia Meadows, and daughter of William Henry and Electa (Grover) McCoy. Ella died in 1897 and she had asked to be laid to rest under the big oak tree on the hill above her own home instead of in the McCoy family graveyard on her grandfather’s farm.
Even though her father and three sisters had already been buried in the old cemetery Ella asked’that her mother promise to be buried close to her. Her mother was the second to be buried here. Electa McCoy’s grave is between those of her son Edward and her daughter Minnie. A small Cedar tree marks the spot.
In Ella’s row there is one other grave, that of Jessie Meadows, infant daughter of Gallia Meadows and his second wife, Hattie Wheaton. The new McCoy Cemetery is located just off Rocky Fork Road on the hill above the home of Arthur D. Perry, William and Electa McCoy’s great-grandson.
The road that the cemetery is on is an old slag road, it is passable by car, the cemetery is about 100 feet up the road and parking in the road is no problem as the cemetery is the only thing on the road.
Log only, BYOP.