FARMINGTON TIMES, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri, Thursday, April 27, 1899 Mr. John Adams McCormick, father of Mrs. A. T. Nixon of this place, and a brother of the late Gen. James R. McCormick, died very suddenly at his home near Irondale on Wednesday morning, April 19, 1899. He had been suffering from rheumatism for a number of years, and was barely able to get about with crutches. When he arose Wednesday morning he was feeling as well as usual, and went out onto the back porch, where he bathed his face and hands. Just as he started to return to his room he suddenly threw up his hands and said to his sister-in-law, Miss Fronie Sloan, who was standing near, "Fronie, catch me." Miss Sloan caught him around the waist, and she and his daughter, Miss Bernice, carried him into his room and laid him on the bed, when he expired immediately. His sudden death was doubtless the result of a rheumatic attack of the heart. Mr. McCormick was born May 16, 1826, on the old homestead whre his death occurred. On May 12, 1859, he was married to Miss Mary Jane Sloan, who survives him. In 1862 he joined the Irondale Presbyterian Church, of which he was made a ruling elder the same year, an office which he held up to the time of his death. He was elected in 1878 on the Democratic ticket to represent Washington county in the General Assembly of the State, and served his people faithfully and with credit to himself. He was a man of upright character, hospitable and generous impulses, and was highly esteemed by neighbors and friends for his many Christian virtues. He was buried with Masonic rites in the Caledonia Presbyterian cemetery, Rev. Mr. Lambert conducting the religious services. Besides his bereaved wife he leaves six children to mourn his death.