John W Mccormick Sex: Male

Birth Date	1792 SEP 15 Bedford Co, PA
Death Date	1825 AUG 25 Indianapolis, Marion Co, IN
Father	John Wesley Sr. Mccormick	Born: 1754 AUG 30 Frederick Co. VA	Died: 1837 APR 18
Mother	Catherine Anne Drennan	Born: 1787 SEP 06	Died: 1880 JAN

John W Mccormick Notes:	John McCormick came from Hamilton, Ohio with his two brothers and their families. They became the first European settlers of Indianapolis. John McCormick and his brother built a log cabin on the east bank of the White River in 1820. He lived there with his wife and eight children. Mr. McCormick was one of the first three county commissioners of Marion County. It was in his home that Indianapolis was chosen as Indianas state capital. The engineer who laid out the plans for Indianapolis stayed with Mr. McCormick to do his work. John McCormick died in 1824. There are relatives of Mr. McCormick in Indiana today. McCormicks Rock commemorates the site of John McCormicks cabin as the first settler of Indianapolis on the east bank of the Whiter River located in White River State Park.
Notes:	On February 16, 1820, the McCormick families decided to strike out for a new site Westward, so John, Bethia, and their seven children (Jacob, Katherine, John Wesley, Lavina and Tabitha (4- year old twins), William Henry Harrison (20 months), and Mary Ann (4 months)) all piled into the wagon. Johnâ€™s two brothers, Samuel (who married Bethias sister, Elizabeth Case) and James, and nine to twelve other employed men, went along with them on the journey. They cut through the virgin forest, traveling by a Conestoga wagon drawn by oxen. They started their journey in February, so they placed the wagon on sled runners for winter travel. Though the distance was only about sixty miles, the journey took them eight days because they had to blaze the trail. They arrived on the banks of the White River near Fall Creek, on February 26, 1820. White River was very high at this time, so John decided not to attempt fording it, but to stop and make camp on the east bank, near where the old National Bridge was afterward erected. Since there was plenty of fish and game for food, they decided to permanently settle at this spot.
Notes:	John, James and Samuel McCormick built the first house in what is now the capitol of Indiana, settling here in 1820.

Spouse:

Bethiah Case Sex: Female

Birth Date	1795 KY
Death Date	1874 JAN 28 Arcadia IN
Father	Jacob Case	Born: 1750	Died: 1823
Mother	Dorcas Gelaspie	Born: 1760	Died: 1830 SEP

Bethiah Case Notes:	Bethiah Case, and they had a family of eight children, their twin daughters, Tabitha and Lavina, celebrating their fourth birthday the day after the family arrived at Indianapolis. After her husbandâ€™s death Mrs. Bethiah McCormack married a Mr. King, by whom she had four childdren, and he pre-deceased her. She continued to live near the bluffs until after the close of the Civil war, when she moved to Arcadia, Ind., to live with her twin daughters until her death, in 1879. and John J McCormick
Individual Notes:	Bethia McCormick is remembered well by the younger members of the family as the champion story teller of the McCormicks. She used to sit by the hour and tell of the hardships of the early pioneers and their struggles in making homes, also the many troubles the white settlers had with the Indians. There are many people who have heard from her own lips the story of the removal to the "New Purchase" as she told it, and she always placed particular emphasis upon the fact that she was the first white woman to tread its soil.
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Children

Birth Death

Mother

Spouse

Grand Children

b.1811
d.

b.1812
d.

b.1815
d.

b.1816
d.

1 Issac Martz

2 William M Martz b.1837

3 Nicholas Martz b.1838

4 Mary C Martz b.1840

5 Eliza Ann Martz b.1842

6 Cornelius Martz b.1844

7 Sarah B Martz b.1844

8 James M Martz b.1845

9 Henry C Martz b.1847

10 Emeline Martz b.1848

11 Sarah Emma Martz b.1848

12 Charles W Martz b.1849

13 Peter Martz b.1851

14 John Martz b.1852

15 Amanda Bithiah Martz b.1853

16 Moses C Martz b.1857

Lavina McCormick

b.1816 FEB 27
d.

Bethiah Case

Issac Martz

William Henry Harrison McCormick

b.1818 Connorsville IN
d.1884 DEC 23

Bethiah Case

Katherine Anne Drennen

1 Margaret Ann McCormick b.1840

2 Samuel Jefferson McCormick b.1842

3 Lafayette Monroe McCormick b.1846

William Clarance McCormick b.1872

Thomas Kirby McCormick b.1874

George Elliot McCormick b.1880

Lotus Lily McCormick

Suzie Maude McCormick b.1883

? Losh

Norma Sue Losh

Milton James McCormick b.1889

Glen Eugine McCormick b.1913

Edith Marguerite McCormick b.1916

Milton Ellsworth McCormick b.1917

Mary Evelyn McCormick b.1920

Donna Lucinda McCormick b.1922

Lonston Lafeyette McCormick b.1925

Betty Lonelle McCormick b.1930

James McCormick b.1933

Patsy Ann McCormick b.1935

4 Katherine McCormick b.1849

5 William Mortimer McCormick b.1851

6 Francis Helen McCormick b.1855

Mary Ann McCormick

b.1819 NOV 16
d.

Bethiah Case

James Hawkins

1 John Selman Hawkins b.1838

2 Elizabeth Margaret Hawkins b.1840

3 Nancy Minerva Hawkins b.1843

4 Eliza Matilda Hawkins b.1844

John Vernon Planck

Bessie Marie Planck

James Frederick Plank

Grace Fay Plank

Martha Pearl Plank

Francis Monroe Planque

William Plank

Anna Ola Plank

Mary Elizabeth Plank b.1864

James Bruce Plank b.1874

5 William L. Hawkins b.1848

6 Conrad Sailors Hawkins b.1848

7 Milton Thomas Hawkins b.1850

Eliza Ann McCormick

b.1821
d.

Bethiah Case

Hiram Gardner

Elizabeth Jane Mccormick

b.1826
d.

Bethiah Case

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Ancestors Chart

Parents 2	4 persons	8 persons	16 persons	32 persons	64 persons	128 persons	256 persons	512 persons	1024 persons	-
John Wesley Mccormick Sr. DAR # A075651 b.1754 Frederick Co. VA d.1837 See Notes	Thomas Mccormick b.1727 Ireland d.1778	Thomas McCormick Sr b.1702 Cross, Londonderry, Ulster, Northern Ireland d.1762 See Notes	Captain James Edward Mccormick b.1645 Kilteny, Coleraine, Londonderry, Northern Ireland d.1738 See Notes	Thomas Mccormick b.1610 Dunmakelter, Antrim, Northern Ireland d.1700 See Notes	Hugh Mccormick b.1570 Antrim, Northern Ireland d.1635	Owen Mccormick b.1540 Antrim, Northern Ireland d.1607 See Notes	Bryan McCormick b.1493 Antrim, Ulster, Northern Ireland d.1550	Donogh Maccormac b.1460 Scotland or Ireland d.1515	Donogh Maccormac b.1420 Letterkenny, Donegal, Ulster, Northern Ireland d.1515 See Notes	MORE>
								Elizabeth Dawoke b.1475 County Antrim, Northern Ireland d.1530	Done Dawoke b.1450 Ireland d.1530	MORE>
							Johanna ? b.1495 County Antrim, Northern Ireland d.1550
								Johanna ? b.1495 County Antrim, Northern Ireland d.1550
						Matilda ? b.1548 Antrim, Northern Ireland d.1551
							Matilda ? b.1548 Antrim, Northern Ireland d.1551
					Elizabeth Oconner b.1557 Antrim, Northern Ireland d.1628	Thomas Oconner b.1565 Ulster, Northern Ireland d.1635	SIR Aoda Oconner HUGH b.1540 Probably, Northern Ireland d.1632	Dermond Oconner b.1507 Probably, Northern Ireland d.1585
								Dorothy Ruadh b.1511 Probably, Northern Ireland
							Dorothy Ruadh b.1511 Probably, Northern Ireland
						Ellen Mcgee	William Green Mcgee b.1500 Probably, Northern Ireland
								Ellen Mcgee
							? ?
								? ?
				Matilda Patterson b.1615 Coleraine, Derry, Northern Ireland d.1700	John Christian Patterson b.1585 Alloa, Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland d.1630
						Matilda Patterson b.1615 Coleraine, Derry, Northern Ireland d.1700
					Mary Watson b.1600 Middlesex, London, England d.1624 See Notes	John Watson b.1571 Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland d.1608	Robert Watson I b.1545 New Castle,Northamptonshire, England d.1607	John Watson II b.1539 Preston, Lancashire, England d.1586 See Notes	John James Watson Sr b.1500 Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, East Riding of Yorkshire, England d.1568	MORE>
								Elizabeth Newsham b.1512 Newsham Hall, Lancashire, England d.1566 See Notes	George Newsham b.1480 Newsham Hall, Newsham, Woodplumpton, Lancashire, England d.1514 See Notes	MORE>
							Virginia Wallace b.1550 Yorkshire, England d.1599	James Wallace b.1525 England d.1600
								Nancy Jane Sickles b.1525 d.1545	Edward James Sickles b.1500 England d.1543	MORE>
						Agnes Bowys b.1595 d.1606
							Agnes Bowys b.1595 d.1606
			Sara McTaree Welsh b.1660 d.1750	Jonathan McTaree Welsh b.1595


		Sara McTaree Welsh b.1660 d.1750	Jonathan McTaree Welsh b.1595
				Sara McTaree Welsh b.1660 d.1750

	Elizabeth Carruthers b.1705 d.1766	James Carruth d.1728

		Margaret Law b.1679

Parents 2	4 persons	8 persons	16 persons	32 persons	64 persons	128 persons	256 persons	512 persons	1024-persons	-
Catherine Anne Drennan b.1787 Pedford C. PA d.1880	Samuel Drennan b.1728 Antrim Co. Ireland d.1787 See Notes	William Drennon b.1707 Antrim Co. Ireland d.1770	Samuel Drenning b.1680 Antrim County, Ireland
				Catherine Anne Drennan b.1787 Pedford C. PA d.1880
			Ann Thompson b.1680
				Ann Thompson b.1680
		Vera Clair b.1708 County Antrim, Ireland

	Anne Baxter

2 persons	4 persons	8 persons	16 persons	32 persons	64 Persons	128 persons	256 persons	512 persons	1024 persons	-

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John J. McCormick Jr. and his wife Bethiah
John J. McCormick Jr. and his wife Bethiah, built perhaps the first house in what is now Indianapolis in February of 1820 at a spot which is now the east end of the Washington Street bridge over the White River.

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