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Facts and Events
Revolutionary War Pension Information
Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 3, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :
- McCormick, John - born 8/30/1754 near Winchester, Virginia; entered service 1776 when residing on Holston River, Virginia, in Virginia regiment; entered sercice 1780 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania in Pennsylvania regiment; received Pension 1832 in Fayette County, Indiana resided in Harrison Township; died there 4/18/1837; married 3/24/1785 Catharine Drenning, Friends Cove, Bedford County, Pennsylvania; widow received Pension age 75 Fayette County, Indiana, 1844; large family of children including Lewis W. who resided 1848 in Connersville, Indiana, where mother granted Bounty Land Warrant #33748 in 1855; query letter in flie 1917 from great grandaughter Bertrude Kirkwood who was a charter member of Indianapolis, Indiana DAR Chapter; query letter in file 1940 from descendant Gertrude V. Ives, New Castle, Indiana; query letter in file 1906 from the McCormick brothers (merchants of Verona, Illinois), who were descendants of soldier; query letter in file 19-- from descendant Altie G. (Mrs. H.H.) Wheeler, Indianapolis, Indiana, says soldier's widow died 2/22/1862; query letter in file 1899 from descendant L.A. Kirkwood of Muncie, Indiana; query letter in file 1922 from descendant Ralph H. Briles, Indnapolis, Indiana, says soldier married Catherine Drennen, who was born 1/25/1769, & died 2/22/1862; query letter in file says soldier & wife had 14 children. F-W9557, R1671.
References
- The Muncie, Ind., Star of a recent date publishes an account of the reunion of the descendants of John McCormick, at Indianapolis, Indiana. Some three hundred of his descendants were in attendance.
John McCormick was born near Winchester, Va., about 1754. He served three terms of enlistment during the revolutionary war — two in Virginia, the second as a private in 1776, under Capt. James Robinson, Col. Christie commanding. He enlisted again on the 8th of January, 1778, for two years, in the Tenth Virginia regiment, under Col. Charles Lewis. His first two terms of service were on the frontier of Virginia. He was engaged in the Indian fight on Watage river. A short time after the expiration of the second term of service, in 1780, he removed to Bedford county, Pa. His third enlistment was in Pennsylvania, for three months, in 1780, under Captain McCall.
On the 24th of March, 1785, he married Catharine Drennen in Bedford, Pa. She was born on the 25th of January, 1769 (probably in Cumberland Valley). He subsequently removed to the west.
His application for a pension was dated 15th of September, 1832, Fayette county, Indiana, age 78. He died on April 18, 1837, aged 83. His wife died on February 22, 1862, aged 93. Their ashes repose in the cemetery at Connersville, Indiana.
To them were born fourteen children, all of whom, with one exception, were married and lived to rear large families. They were Sarah, married Robert Sanders; Samuel, married Elizabeth Case; John, married Bethiah Case; William, married Susannah Wolverton; Joseph, married Frances Coy; James, married Patsey Perkins; Elizabeth, married John Williams; Jane, married Thomas Klrkwood; Robert, married Elizabeth Job; Lewis W., married Mary Stevens, 2nd, Nancy Willey; Catharine, married James Stewart Kirkwood; David, married Elizabeth Gregg. Mary died on July 9, 1813.
Source: The Bedford Gazette, Bedford, Pennsylvania, Friday, January 23, 1903
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