Biography
William V. McCoy, a "Virginia mountaineer" from Big Stone Gap, West Virginia, was convicted of conspiring to seize U.S. property and oppose the government and was sentenced to five years in prison. He served in Atlanta Penitentiary from August 17, 1917, to April 24, 1921. Although sixty-one years old when he went to prison, McCoy was confined in "the hole" from January to May 1918.