This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McCormick Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/2306 Message Board Post: Sedalia Daily Democrat, Tuesday, September 8, 1874, p. 4 Died John W. McCormick, cousin of Sheriff McCormick, departed this life on the 5th of September, 1874, after an illness of about one week. His disease was pneumonia, although he had been in poor health for sometime past. Mr. McCormick was born in Mercer County, Ky on the 10th day of December, 1816, consequently he was in his 59th year. His father, Abraham McCormick, emigrated to this State in 1830, and settled on Flat Creek, in this county, in the same year. His family consisted of his wife, Sarah McCormick, and two daughters and three sons. At that time this county was a wilderness, only two or three families being in the southern part of the county. Now they have all gone to the spirit land except one son and one daughter. Mr. McCormick lived and died on the farm, his father improved forty-four years ago. He was esteemed by all who knew him and his death is a great bereavement to the whole community. But we hope our loss is his eternal gain, that he is now in the he! avenly land around the throne of God, and has clasped hands with his parents and other relatives who have preceded him in that beautiful land where parting shall be no more. A Friend Flat Creek, September 6, 1874