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GENETIC PARENTS

Father: James McCormack

Mother: Susanna Gault

GENETIC CHILDREN

Daughter: Mary Minerva McCormack Gray Nesbitt Botkin (1838-1930)

Daughter: Anna McCormack (ca.1840-1845)

Daughter: Adeline McCormack Wilson (ca.1842-?)

Daughter: Susan McCormack

Daughter: Julia McCormack Kingdon Hodson (1846-1931)

Son: Isaac Newton McCormack (1848-1934)

Son: Cornelius McCormack (1852-1895)

Son: John Alonzo McCormack (1852-1924)

Son: Charles D. McCormack (1859-1898)

Daughter: Laura Lucille McCormack Perkins (1862-1945)

Son: Nesbut K. McCormack (1862-bef.1880?)

OTHER RELATIONS

Brother: William McCormack (1806-1868)

Sister: Nancy McCormack Pinkerton Coulter (1807-1852)

Brother: Thomas McCormack (1809-1828)

Sister: Ellen/Elinor McCormack Tenant (ca.1811-ca.1845)

Sister: Manda Mulvina McCormack (1813-1828)

Brother: James McCormack (ca.1815-?)

Brother: Hugh Coffee McCormack (1819-1870)

Sister: Rebecca J. McCormack Wilson (ca.1822-ca.1888)

Brother: Mathew Stone McCormack (ca.1822-aft.1893)

Brother: Isaac Newton McCormack (bef.1829-?)

Wife: Temperance Teele Sullivan

BASIC DATA

Name: John Wilson McCormack

Born: 15 October 1817 at Lincoln County, Tennessee

Died: 5 June 1902 at Sparta, Illinois  

Buried: Caledonia Cemetery in Sparta

HISTORY

Occupation: Blacksmith

Marriage data: 1837 probably in Lincoln CO, TN (ended by her death)

Military information: Served in the Civil War as a First Lieutenant, 80th Illinois Infantry, Company G, from 13 August 1862 to 5 April 1863; discharged because of lumbago

Miscellaneous: He moved to Sparta, Illinois, probably by 1839, to join his brother Hugh in business. They owned a shop called the Finley Plow Factory. He was a city alderman and a supply pastor and a choir leader for the Methodist church. He went to the California gold rush in 1853 but was unsuccessful. The family was in Holden, MO, for the the 1870 census.

A back disability, brought on by army service, kept John from working as a blacksmith during the latter part of his life. His sons, Cornelius and Charles, helped him then by working in his shop as blacksmiths. He was able to do light work there himself. He could repair machine and farm tools, if it did not require constant stooping or heavy lifting. He also said he practiced a little as a veterinary doctor, but it was not what he preferred to be doing. The examiner for his government pension asked him why he had waited 24 years before filing his application to receive a pension, since his disability dated from his army service. John replied that he had had it in his mind not to apply for a pension if he had been able to procure a comfortable living for himself. And until 1887 (age 70), he had been able to do that. But finally, he became dependent upon his children, and he was worried that they might want to leave to set up their own smithing facilities. Then he would be unable to support himself. War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Application for Pension dated 1887 for John W. McCormack.

John lived with his daughter, Julia Kingdon, after his wife Tempy died on 17 April 1896. He died 5 June 1902. Both are buried in Caledonia Cemetery in Sparta. Their daughter, Mary Botkin, had a stained glass window created and placed in the Sparta Methodist Church in their memory. Gault, Pressley Brown, and Leighty, Elisabeth Pinkerton. The William Gault Family History, 1735 to 1948. [The Gault section written in 1893 and the Leighty section in 1948.]

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