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Show RECALLS STORIES OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR Special to Tho Tribune. PRICE. Aug. 20. Utah can boast of a man wnose lather told him stories of what the latter remembered of pre-revo-lution , days. The man is M. McCoy of Ashley valley, in I'lntah county. Mr. McCoy in now SI and his father was 8n when the man now living was horn. Thus the combined ai;es cover Iti9 years, taking one back to 3 747 as the birthdate 01 me lamer. He was a young man when the colonial fores met the Pritish at Lexington and Hunker Hill and was not yet .'10 when Jefferson wrotn the Declaration Declara-tion of Independence. George Washing- 1 Ion was but seventeen years older than the eider McCoy and the vouuger man. now an old man, has often listened as his Parent, told of the .lays when the United Males was in ti.e making. The living McCoy imikes no boast of his remarkable parentage and lives quietly quiet-ly scores of miles awav from a railroad in splendid health a nd vigor. |