Marriage and Family
McCoy married Ann Elizabeth Stewart in 1868; she died four years later.
He married for the second time in 1873, to Mary Eleanor Delaney. They moved to Detroit when he found work there. Mary McCoy (b. - d. 1922) was one of the founders of the Phillis Wheatley Home for Aged Colored Men in 1898.
Elijah McCoy died in Detroit in 1929 at the age of 86. He had continued to suffer from injuries from a car accident seven years earlier in which his wife Mary died. For some time McCoy was a resident of the Eloise Hospital, as he had dementia. The sanatorium was also known as the Michigan State Asylum (now in Westland, Michigan).
He was buried at Detroit Memorial Park East in Warren, Michigan.
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