 1754 - 1837 (82 years)
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| Name |
John Wesley McCormick [1] |
| Suffix |
Sr |
| Birth |
30 Aug 1754 |
Near Winchester, VA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
18 Apr 1837 |
Connersville, IN |
| Person ID |
I57851 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
23 Apr 2006 |
| Family |
Catherine Anne Drennen, b. 25 Jan 1769, Bedord Co., PA d. 22 Feb 1862, Connersville, Fayette Co, Indiana (Age 93 years) |
| Marriage |
24 Mar 1785 |
Bedford, PA [1] |
| Children |
| | 1. Sarah McCormick, b. 22 Apr 1786, Friends Cove, Bedford, Co.PA d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 2. Anna McCormick, b. 6 Sep 1787, Friends Cove, Bedford, Co.PA d. 23 Jan 1880 (Age 92 years) |
| | 3. Samuel McCormick, b. 23 Sep 1789, Friends Cove, Bedford, Co.PA d. 2 Jan 1867 (Age 77 years) |
| | 4. John Wesley McCormick, Jr, b. 15 Sep 1791, Bedford Co., PA d. 2 Jun 1867, Hendricks Co., Indiana (Age 75 years) |
| | 5. William Newton McCormick, b. 27 Sep 1793, Friends Cove, Bedford, Co.PA d. Oct 1853 (Age 60 years) |
| | 6. Joseph D McCormick, b. 7 Sep 1795, Butler Co., OH d. 5 Dec 1853, Lee Co., IA (Age 58 years) |
| | 7. James McCormick, b. 5 Dec 1797, Hamilton, Butler Co., Ohio d. 6 Oct 1858, Hendricks Co., Indiana (Age 60 years) |
| | 8. Elizabeth McCormick, b. 29 Mar 1800, Bedford, Friends Cave, PA d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 9. Jane McCormick, b. 4 Jun 1802, Bedford, Friends Cave, PA d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 10. Robert McCormick, b. 19 Jun 1804, Bedford, Friends Cave, PA d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 11. Lewis McCormick, b. 9 Jun 1807, Bedford, Friends Cave, PA d. 30 Apr 1880, Connersville, Fayette Co, Indiana (Age 72 years) |
| | 12. Catherine McCormick, b. 20 Dec 1808, Eaton, OH d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 13. David McCormick, b. 24 Jan 1811, Eaton, OH d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 14. Mary McCormick, b. 9 Jul 1813, Eaton, OH d. 11 Nov 1815 (Age 2 years) |
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| Family ID |
F24386 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
22 Feb 2009 |
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| Notes |
McCormick's Creek Falls
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was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and the source for the DAR application of Altie Gladden Wheeler in 1917.
| DAR application of Altie Gladden Wheeler |
My ancestor's services in assiting in the establishment of American' Independence during the War of the Revolution wrer as follows:
John McCormick enlisted twice from Virginia. This first enlistment was in the year 1776. His Captain was James Robinson under Colonel Christian.
His sescond enlistment was also from Virginia. His Captain was James Shelby. His Colonel's name was not stated.
His third enlistment was from Pennsylvania in 1780 in Captain McCall's Company.
After his first two terms of service, which were on the frontier of Virginia, he moved to Bedford County, Pennsylvania. He engaged in the Indian fight at Matapo River.
His application for a pension was September 15, 1832. Hs residence Fayette County, Indiana. His age 78 years. After his death, his widow, Cathering, was pensioned until her death in Februaru 1862.
The evidence is founded upon information received from the War Department giving John McCormick's record as a soldier and his application for a pension.
The records are to be found in the Record and Pension Office of the War Department. See National Number 5833. |
| From Indiana Biographies... |
The McCormick Family McCauley, the English historian, said "The history of a country is best told in a record of the lives of its people." In conformity with this idea we will endeavor to present the history of these two families. The history of the McCormick family can be traced back to an early period in Scotland. During that period of Scotch history known as the "Covenanters" when the trouble arose between the established church and the Presbyterians, the McCormicks on account of persecution emigrated to the northern part of Ireland. They remained there for a time and later emigrated to America settling in Virginia and Pennsylvania.
John McCormick, Sr. a descendent of the McCormick family that came to America about the year 1700, was born about thirty miles from Winchester, Virginia, August 30th. 1754. At that time it was a province of Great Britain. The McCormicks were loyal to the king, but being opposed to the tyranical sic measures of the English government, early cast their lot with the colonists in their struggle for independence. John McCormick Sr. served in the Revolutionary war from 1776 to 1783, as the records in the War Department show. His first enlistment in 1776 was in Captain James Robinson’s Co. in Col. Church’s regiment, He again enlisted January 8th. 1778, in Captain James Shelley’s Co. and afterward served in Captain Mark’s Co. 14th Virginia regiment, subsequently in the same Co. with the 10th Virginia regiment under Col. Charles Lewis. His last enlistment was from Pennsylvania for three month’s service. A part of his service was against the Indians on the frontier.
The records show that he engaged in a fight with the Indiana on the Wataga sic River. His residence at the time of his first enlistment was Molachucky sic River, Virginia, now a part of Tennessee. In 1780 at the expiration of his second enlistment he located in Bedford, Pennsylvania. On the 24th of March he was married to Catherine Drennen at Bedford, Pa. And in 1808 the whole family moved to Ohio, and settled in Preble County not far from Eaton. The overland trip was made in wagons, then down the Ohio River in flatboats.
They remained in Ohio only a short time then "Westward Ho," journeyed to the territory of Indiana. The remained sometime at the fort at Connorsville as there was trouble with the Indians at that time, but Mr. McCormick was the first man to leave the protection of the fort and venture to settle elsewhere. He located on land adjoining Connersville, and there spent the rest of his life, dying April 18th. 1837, aged 83 years, 7 months, and 19 days Catherine McCormick, wife of John McCormick, was born January 25th 1769, in the state of Pennsylvania. She was pensioned as her husbands widow, and survived him until February 22, 1862, and passed away at the age of 93 years and 28 days.
See LYCURGUS P. McCORMACK |
| Notes for JOHN WESLEY JR. MCCORMICK: |
When Great Britain declared war the second time, he left his young wife in Hamilton,Ohio and enlisted in the Indian war in Ohio fighting Indians employed by the English.When peace was declared they left Ohio and returned to his fathers homestead in Connersville, they remained there until a treaty with the Indians signed a strip of land thru Central Ohio and Indiana to the Goverment called the "NEW PURCHASE". This was done under a big sycamore Tree in Greenville,Ohio. March 1820 they decided to strike out for a new site Westward, brother Samuel went along. They cut through the Vigin Forest,traveling by Castadaga Wagon Placed on sled runners. Brother James followed with their famlies. they settled in the banks of the white river known as Fall Creek. It took them eight days to go 60 miles.There they built a cabin ,established the first white settlement in Indian Territory.Samuel settled near Military Park The following May,state commisioners appointed by the first governor of Indiana met at the McCormick cabin and tavern combined because it was the most convenient. The State Capital was formed, the town was platted "MILE SQUARE" John's wife Bethiah helped to muster courage at the special session of Indiana General Assembly. She got up on the Platform and said..."We and the Pogues were the first settlers in this part of the State, i know you must think i'm a little bragger indead to be standing here in front of you, i didn't want to but i want you very much to consider the name Indianapolis the Goverment Seat." And it was estabalished Indianapolis, "State Capital Of Indiana". Web: see: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kellyrunyon/Samuel_DrenningII.htm |
The public lands in section 9 except one 80 acre tract was taken up in the year of 1836 by Willard Swain, John Wesley McCormick, John Hawkins, Gabriel Ginn, Amos Janney and Samuel Knight, leaving an 80 acre tract as before mentioned, which was purchased by Ira Swain on January 5, 1837, and was the east half of the southwest quarter of the seetron. Section 9 is now owned by R. C. Nottingham, R. Beouy, M. Cory, L. Nottingham, B. W. Lewis, S. Lewis, and William I. Janney. The section has public roads on the north and east, with a free gravel pike on the south line. |
In section 10 we find the first entry of public land made by William McCormick on May 16, 1831. This is the east half of the southeast quarter, and still remains in the McCormick family. After this purchases were made in section 10 by Samuel Moore and Thomas Beouy in 1832; by John Dunn in 1833; William Wharton in 1834; Thomas Dunn in 1835; William McCormick again in 1836, and the last by John Wesley McCormick in 1837. The land owners in 10 are now John Dunn, Jr., R. Beouy, William McCormick, A. H. Benbow, E. Beouy, and Benoni Beouy. Section 10 has four and one-half miles of public road, two and one-half of which is free pike.
(History of Delaware County - Washington Township -Excerpts from pages 181, and 184 through 194 ) |
| McCormick's Creek (see photo) |
McCormick's Creek Falls is the main attraction at McCormick's Creek State Park The park named after the area's first settler John McCormick became Indiana's first state park on July 4, 1916. Much of the park was built by the CCC during FDR's New Deal era. It is located on SR 46, two miles east of Spencer .
It wasn't until 1816 that the first settler laid claim to the area, when John McCormick homesteaded nearly one hundred acres along the canyon by the waterfalls. In those days it was common practice to name physical landmarks after the people who owned them, and thus McCormick's Creek received its name |
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| For more information see the Our Folk - Hart family Web Site |
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| Sources |
- [S1236] Altie G. Wheeler, DAR Application - Altie Gladden Wheeler, (Submitted and accepted May 16, 1917).
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