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Pt. NW ¼ SW ¼ Sec. 32 Twp. 69, Rng. 44, 7/75 A Fisher Township, Fremont County, Iowa This is a large file. |
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Major U. D. Coy moved to Fremont County in 1848. He had been in the Black Hawk and Mexican wars where he became a major. He was also in the Union Army, but was sent home due to his age. He sold 160 acres of his land to the railroad for a town. (80 acres more of his land eventually went into the town as well.) Major Coy was an admirer of Admiral Farragut, so named the town after his hero. Major Coy gave the first plot of land for the Farragut Cemetery with the reservation that a Coy always be on the Board of Trustees. major U. D. Coy died in 1876, his wife Susan died in 1884. Both of these pioneers are buried in the cemetery which they began.
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