Elmer McCoy
From the earliest ages agriculture has been an honored vocation and men of honorable and humane impulses, as well as those of energy and thrift, have been patrons of husbandry. The free, out-door life of the farm has a decided tendency to foster and develop that independence of mind and self-reliance which characterizes true manhood, and no greater blessing can befall a youth than to be reared on the farm. One of the most prosperous of the younger farmers of Fayette county is Elmer McCoy, who is now managing the McCoy estate of one hundred and seventy acres on the Hayes road about three and one-half miles from Bloomingburg.
Elmer McCoy, the son of James R. and Martha J. (Hays) McCoy, was born July 10, 1884, in Paint township, three and one-half miles west of Bloomingburg, on the farm where he now resides. James R. McCoy was married November 4, 1880, to Martlia J. Hays, and to this union were born two children, Elmer, and Laura, the wife of James Collett.
Elmer McCoy attended the district school of his home neighborhood for the first three years of his school life, finishing his education in the Bloomingburg school, graduating from the high school at that place. At the age of twenty-one he began the management of the McCoy estate and has been successfully operating this farm ever since. This is one of the best improved and most highly productive farms of the county and. under the skillful management of Mr. McCoy, is bringing good returns each year. He raises a large amount of live stock, giving particular attention to the cattle industry and the raising of Duroc-Jersey swine, in which he has been very successful.
Mr. McCoy was married June 26. 1907, to Forest M. McCoy, the daughter of Allison and Francenia (Bonham) McCoy. Although his wife has the same family name, they are no relation. To this union has been born one child. Almer Lynn, who is deceased.
Fraternally, Mr. McCoy belongs to the Knights of Pythias. while, politically, he gives his allegiance to the Republican party, but his extensive agricultural interests have prevented him from being actively identified with his party. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, as are all the members of the McCoy family. Thev are prominent in church work and deeply interested in everything which pertains to its welfare. Mr. McCoy is still a young man and the success which he has attained thus far indicates that he will become one of the substantial men of his county in the course of time.
From History of Fayette County Ohio - Her People, Industries and Institutions by Frank M. Allen (1914, R. F. Bowen & Company, Inc.)