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| U.S. Freedmen's Bank Record Horace Mccoy |
Lewis Chas McCoy was born in 1848 in Louisiana. According to the United States Census, his father was born in Mississippi, and his mother was born in Virginia. Lewis was a Freight Hand. He was married to Alice Braehill Lawson (Daggs) McCoy. Their children were; Joe, Rosa, Rachel, Fred, Ester, Alma, Manilla, and Thomas McCoy.
Manilla married Palmer Roscoe Harrell in Amite, Louisiana. They were the parents of Ellis, Doris, Helen, Theodora, Arthur, Bobbie, Audrey, Vera, Joseph, Elbert, and Yvonne Harrell.
Alice was living in the household as a domestic with Esaw Lawson in the house of Ambrose D. Henkel in 1870. Alice was sixteen years old. She was born in 1854 in Louisiana and died at the age of sixty-two in 1937.
Lewis had an account with the Freedmen Bank. On September 30, 1872, he opened his account. He said this father named was Horace McCoy, and his mother's name was Estabella Harrison McCoy. Horace and Estabella Harrison married in 1884 in Tangipahoa Parish. Horace was born in 1818 in Mississippi.
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| Manilla McCoy Harrell |
Lewis donated land he owned to his son George in 1880. The land was near his father Horace. The scanned document can be found in the Louisiana, Wills and Probate Records, 1756-1984 Tangipahoa Parish for Lewis Cass McCoy.
I haven't yet connected the dots were Alice is concerned. How did Alice become a Daggs? Where did the name Braehill come from? Was she a Lawson by maiden name? What was her relationship to Esaw Lawson? In the United States, Esaw was a laborer in the Henkel household. Ambrose was a merchant born in Tennessee around 1815. Living in the same house with the Henkel was a woman named Harriet Wells, she was thirty years old. It appears that Harriet had a daughter named Elise Wells.
Ambrose Henkel was a slaveholder in St. Helena Parish. He owned eight enslaved people according the 1860 U.S. Federal Census-Slave Schedules.
