 Denison  Section 11   Evelyn Earl McCoy 29 November 1905 - 2 December 1992  Lillie Payton McCoy 13 August 1879 - 20 November 1961   John McCoy Troop L 1st Texas Cavalry Spanish-American War TWO MEN FOUGHT; ONE DIED OF WOUNDS Denison, April 27 - What was believed to be an old grudge between two prominent Grayson county farmers, terminated in the death of John J. McCoy, farmer about 45 years old, living about 5 miles s outheast of Denison, near Bona, and the arrest of Miles R. Hearod, farmer, about 50 years old, who lives near the Iron Ore Bridge. Hearod is in the city jail charged with murder. McCoy, stabbed and slashed in the breast, abdomen and arms, was rushed to the Denison City Hospital in an ambulance within 2 hours after the conflict at Iron Ore bridge at about noon yesterday. He died this morning at 7 o'clock. Hearod is suffering from wounds on the head. He was arrested at his home last night at 8 o'clock by Homer West, Walter Truett, and John Roberts, deputy constables. He came peacefully. He refused to make a statement. Hearod was sitting on a cross-tie near the Iron Ore bridge talking to his father-in-law, it was understood, when McCoy approached him and kicked him in the jaw, it was reported. Hearod, it was said, was whittling with a pocket knife when he was attacked.     OAKWOOD CEMETERY
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