Edward McCormick

MCCORMICK

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 7/23/2014 at 10:23:40

OBITUARY.

McCORMICK.

In the very prime of life, Edward McCormick, aged only 27 years, 9 months and 26 days, as succumbed to the grim reaper whose name is Death. He had been stricken for the past three months by and attack of asthma with heart complications, but few of his friends of late thought his illness would prove fatal. His death occurred Thursday morning at 7:35 o'clock.

The deceased, who was a machinist by trade, was universally respected. He was born in Davenport, Jan. 13, 1866, and was educated at old St. Margaret's schools and St. Ambrose college. He was a member of the Sacred Heart Cathedral choir, and had a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, to whom the news of his untimely death will prove a sad and sudden shock.

His father, John McCormick, the widely-known and popular engineer on the Rock Island road, died April 10, 1892. There survive to mourn his loss his mother Mrs. Margaret McCormick, a married sister Mary, wife of W.J. Purcell, timekeeper of the C.R.I. & P.railroad shops; and elder brother John McCormick, engineer of the locomotive that draws the Rock Island pay car, the Gazelle, and Maggie and Will McCormick, brother and sister, at home with the afflicted mother at the family residence, 515 east Eighth street.

The funeral took place Saturday morning, with services at Sacred Heart cathedral at 9 o'clock. Interment was in St. Margaret's cemetery.

Source: Davenport Weekly Leader, Davenport, IA, 15 November 1893.