By Kimberly Luste Maran
’ Davy Crocketts Adventist Descendant Takes Stand at Alamo
Ryan McCoy shares his love for God at the Alamo and at GC Session. 26
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direct descendant of the “king of the wild frontier” took a stand for the King of the universe at the Alamo. Ryan McCoy, the great-greatgreat-great-great-grandson of American folk hero Davy Crockett, came to the General Conference session to participate in a historical re-enactment at the Alamo, the frontier mission where his well-known ancestor was slain in 1836, and to staff a booth
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for his Adventist media ministry in the session’s convention center. McCoy, 41, a third-generation Seventh-day Adventist, read a portion of the United States (U.S.) Declaration of Independence at the Alamo on Sabbath, July 4, as a crowd including his wife, Kelly, and 7-year-old daughter looked on. “It is not only a great honor to participate in this event, but at this critical point in history, any time we