Person:John McCorkle (5)

http://www.marshahuie.com/old_mccorkle_letters.htm

II.2 John McCorkle m. “Katy” Catherine Barr

[ "« John an elder in the church[121] and member of the Legislature, useful and much beloved, died in the prime of life leaving an only son [Joel] who walked in his father's steps and enjoyed his honors.@@ --quoting Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, John’s niece. –Quaere: Is John's only son Joel McCorkle of Rowan County, NC, in the NC legislative records anywhere? did Joel ever stray as far as Bloomington, Indiana? (I don't think so. Some of Joel's writings are in the Robert/Agnes McCorkle Ramsay collection of papers at the UNC Archives in Chapel Hill. In his papers preserved there, Joel writes like a lawyer.)]

www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/resources/index/indexm.html  : Is this John above a grandfather of the John McCorkle of Bloomington, Indiana, who reported the 1842 death of his mother, a Mrs. McCorkle, to the Christian Church Restoration Movement literature? --"McCorkle, Mrs., death reported by her son John McCorkle of Bloomington, Ind. She died Feb. 8, 1842, in the 75th year of her age, "without a groan or a struggle after an illness of 8 days." -- I really think the John who reported his mother's 1842 death was a son of Generation II. James McCorkle, but the dates of the mother's death do not jibe with what someone has placed on www.ancestry.com , id. est, that all 3 wives of Generation II. James McCorkle (brother of Robert et al.) have the 1st name of Elizabeth ["E"]: viz., 1st Elizabeth Hall, a 2nd Elizabeth Hall, and 3rd an Elizabeth Hanna.