Robert McCormick 1825-1910

MCCORMICK, BANE, MILLER, CRISWELL, BROWN, CHENOWETH, GRAY, BUCKNER

Posted By: John Evan Davis (email)
Date: 11/9/2014 at 11:38:00

Ottumwa tri-weekly courier, December 20, 1910
OCTOGENARIAN AND PIONEER OF THIS COUNTY SUCUMBS AT HOME OF DAUGHTER.
Robert McCormick, one of the best known and oldest residents of Wapello County, died at 5:40 p. m., Friday at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. George A. Bane, 230 West Fifth Street. Tuesday death of Mr. McCormick ends a life of much usefulness, and robs his family of a devoted father and his legion of friends of a kind and sympathetic
well-wisher. Mr. McCormick died at the advanced age of over eighty-five years. He had moved from his farm near Highland Center to the home of Mrs. Bane but a short time ago to spend the winter, but the illness with which he had been a patient sufferer yesterday proved the master. The funeral will be held Monday morning at 11 o'clock from the Bane residence. Rev. B. L. Nay of Minneapolis, of the Predestinary Baptist church, will officiate. Interment will be made in the McCormick cemetery. Robert McCormick was born June 4, 1825 near Lexington, Ky. and moved to McDonough County, Illinois, at the age of 10 years. He was married in Illinois to Miss Charlotte Miller on December 23, 1847 and the following year in March with his wife he moved to Iowa. They came to this state over land, in a rough wagon drawn by an ox team, and settled on the present McCormick farm near Highland Center. Mr. McCormick is survived by his wife end seven children, as follows: Louis McCormick and Jesse McCormick of Woodward, Okla., Mrs. Catherine Criswell of Pocatello, Idaho, Mrs. Sarah Ellen Brown, of Ottumwa, Mrs. Charlotte Chenoweth of Woodward. Okla. Mrs. Flora Bane of Ottumwa and Mrs. Irene Harlan of Redlands. Cal. Three children preceded him in death, as follows. Mrs. Martha Gray, Mrs. Parthena Buckner, Gray and Henry McCormick.
The last sad rites over the remains of Robert McCormick, one of Wapello county's oldest residents who died on Friday, were held this morning at 11 o'clock from the home of his daughter, Mrs. George Bane, 220 West Fifth street. Rev. B. LeNay, pastor of the Baptist Church of Minneapolis conducted the services. The remains were then taken to their last resting place In the McCormick cemetery.