I would like to Memorialize George W. McCoy who lived in Franklin County towns of Highgate, Highgate Center, and Thatcher, VT. He lost his life in the Civil War on Nov. 16, 1862 in Sandersville, KY. He was born Sep. 7, 1821 in either Canada, Boston, NY or VT. His children all list a different place of birth. 22nd WI Infantry Organized: Camp Utley, Racine, WI on 9/2/62 Mustered Out: 6/12/65 at Washington, DC George is buried under a beautiful monument in Magnolia East Cemetery, Magnolia, Rock, WI. The above George had a son named George Luther (Lute) McCoy who also served in the military. Lute was born Feb. 14, 1846 in Thatcher, Franklin Co., VT. Lute died 05 Nov 1923, in Evansville, Rock, WI. Lute's story is as follows: At the time of the Civil War, his father, George W. McCoy, volunteered to serve in the 22nd Wisconsin Infantry and died in 1862 in Sandersville, Kentucky. When Lute became 18 years of age, he also volunteered to go into the army. However, when he went for his physical, he passed everything except he was 1/2" too short. They told him if he could stretch that 1/2" in 30 days to come back and they would take him. He was only 5'4 1/2" tall. When he went back, he had padded his heels with cardboard and passed the physical. At the time you could hire a substitute to go into the army in your place if you were drafted. Some fellows offered to pay Lute's mother $800 if he would go in their place. His mother, however, would not accept the offer and said if Lute went into the army it would be in his own place. After he was mustered out of the Army, he received a government pension for an injury received in service. The injury was received in trying to fulfill a bet. The soldiers had a bet on for the one who could stay on this particular mule the longest and Lute was injured when he was bucked off. The foregoing information was told to me by Lute's son, Burchard in 1967 and again in 1975. He also said that Major General Robert Bruce McCoy, for whom Camp (now Fort) McCoy in Sparta, Wisconsin was named was a relative of his. General McCoy was a Spanish American War veteran. I have information on all the children of George W. McCoy, if anyone is interested. Jan Walker iowawalker@msn.com -----Original Message----- From: vtfrankl-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:vtfrankl-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Darrell A. Martin Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 3:42 PM To: FORBUSH@rootsweb.com; HARTWELL@rootsweb.com; NELSON@rootsweb.com; vermont@rootsweb.com; VTCALEDO@rootsweb.com; vtchitte@rootsweb.com; VT-CIVIL-WAR@rootsweb.com; VTESSEX@rootsweb.com; vtfrankl@rootsweb.com; vtgrandi@rootsweb.com; vtlamoil@rootsweb.com; vtorange@rootsweb.com; vtrutlan@rootsweb.com; vtwindso@rootsweb.com Subject: [VTFRA] Memorial Day messages Greetings: This coming Monday, May 31 this year, is the day set aside in the United States of America to honor those who gave their lives in service to their country. It differs from Veteran's Day in that it does *not* focus on those who served and lived, such as (thankfully!) my father, my son, and myself; rather, it commemorates those who marched, or sailed, away, and did not return to tell the tales. Sometimes those tales would have been of heroism, sometimes of terror, more often of boredom, and loneliness. We will never know, except as those who did return may tell us, and only then if we keep the stories alive. So often those whom we should honor on Memorial Day have no other remembrance. So often they died too young to have families of their own, or if they did have children they left their sons and daughters to be raised by others. Too many times only parents, and siblings, and nephews and nieces, will ever recall the sacrifice; because the genealogists of a future time will not find them "in the line". But they stood in the line for us. I encourage anyone who knows of someone who died in service to his country to post a message about that person on this list. There is NO qualification of country; honorable service may be found on both sides of every conflict. I do suggest that if possible, you choose someone who is connected with the topic of this list; but if the name which you would choose would not be written otherwise -- please, write it here. And don't stop remembering when the barbecue is hot. Darrell list admin ------------------ List administrator VTFRANKL-admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VTFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message