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Note: H4895
Note: In the 1860 Mercer County, Pennsylvania Census, Jesse is listed as being36 years old and a farmer who was born in Indiana. He, his 18-year-old wife, Mary (born in Indiana), and their sons, William D., age 4 and born in Indiana, and Lewis, age 1 and born in Pennsylvania reside in Otter Creek Twp., the West Greenville Post Office. They reside next door to a Peter and Catherine Henry and their family. In the 1870 Columbiana County, Ohio Census, Jesse, Elizabeth, and Jesse's three sons to his first wife reside in Hanover Twp. In the 1880 Columbiana County, Ohio Census, Jesse, Elizabeth, and their son, Daniel, and Jesse's three sons, W. David, Lewis, and Kennett from his first marriage reside in Hanover Twp. Jesse is a farmer. Jesse was a soldier in a Pennsylvania Regiment during the Civil War. According to Hardesty's Military History of Ohio, 1887, Jesse Coy served four years in Company E, 77th PA, V.I. during the Civil War. There is metal funeral home marker at his gravesite indicating his service in the Civil War as a soldier of the GAR, the "Grand Army of the Republic". Jesse's Pension File reiterates this information. His Pension File also states that Jesse enrolled in the Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment as a Private in Saline Twp., Mercer County on 11 November 1861. He was Honorably Dischared on 16 February 1865 from Tripler Hospital in Columbus, Ohio following a gunshot wound to the thigh in the line of duty on 27 August 1864 in Atlanta, Georgia. The injury was followed by gangrene "so as to prevent marching". At the time of his enlistment his personal description was that he was 5 feet 10 inches tall with gray eyes and dark hair with a dark complexion. In the 1880 Columbiana County, Ohio Census, Jesse, his wife, Elizabeth, and sons "W. David, Louis G., Kenneth R., and Daniel W." are residing in Hanover Twp. On 16 June 1910, at the age of 79, in Columbiana County, Ohio, Jesse was declared an imbecile at the order of the court, on the request of William D. Coy, who lived in Hanoverton and was appointed Jesse's guardian. Case #20032, docket 15, p. 366 According to his death certificate, Jesse died from bronchitis after an illness of six days.
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