Ancestors of Donald Gilson McCormick, b. 1907, d. 1986Updated February 5, 2005 |
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| Surnames in this tree: MCCORMICK, McNEIL, SHERIDAN, FANNING, GLENDENNON or GLENDENNING, PARNELL, MAY, FRITTS, EUBANKS, BOSTON, LANGFORD, McNESS, GILSON, WAKEFIELD. If you see anything in the brief sketches below that meshes with your research, please contact me. Hugh McCORMICK (son of John McCormick and Alice McNEIL) (b. 1831 or 1833) left Ireland during the potato famine with siblings, Alice, Daniel, Elizabeth, John and Patrick, for Glasgow, Scotland. He and one brother later came to the U.S.(LOUISIANA?), another sibling went to AUSTRALIA, and some stayed in SCOTLAND. Hugh married Ann Elizabeth (Eliza) SHERIDAN in 1862 in OHIO, and the family moved to NEOSHO COUNTY, KANSAS in 1878. Eliza died in 1884 at the age of 46, and is buried in a lovely spot in St. Francis Cemetery, Neosho Co., Kansas. Hugh died in Kansas City in 1911. PATRICK McCORMICK, son of HUGH and ELIZA, was murdered in Parsons, Kansas, September 19, 1901, in the rail yard. I am curious about this crime, as I've not been able to discover if anyone was ever charged in his murder. PATRICK is buried in Calvary Cemetery, PARSONS, KANSAS. He was my grandfather F.A.'s brother. Eliza SHERIDAN's father, Matthew (b. 1810), emigrated from IRELAND in 1852. He and Ann FANNING had five children: Ann Elizabeth, Catherine, Francis P., Mary, and John, most born in OHIO. Ann died in Toledo, OHIO, in 1874, and Matthew died of "infection of the lung" in Toledo in 1879. Stephen PARNELL (farmer) from ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND, served in the Revolutionary War, Battle of Monmouth, and was married to Margaret GLENDENNON or GLENDENNING. They had ten children. Stephen applied for a Pension, but it was denied in 1832 because of "desertion". Stephen died in DECATUR COUNTY, INDIANA in 1833. WILLIAM PARNELL (son of Stephen and Margaret Glendennon PARNELL)(farmer) married Catherine (Caty) FRITTS in Estill County, KENTUCKY, in 1818. Among their eight children was William Michael PARNELL (farmer), born in INDIANA in 1838. Their other children were Lucinda, Zera Olden/Oldham, Margaret, Stephen, James Dudley, Valentine, and Nancy. The PARNELLS ended up in VAN BUREN COUNTY, ARKANSAS. Their daughter Margaret was married to Col. Caleb MAY (farmer, fruit grower), who was anti-slavery and very active in pre-Civil War KANSAS politics. Catherine (Caty) FRITTS's father was Valentine (Felty) FRITTS (b. 1759) who lived in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Ohio, and who also fought in the Revolutionary War. In 1856 William Michael PARNELL (farmer) married Lueasy (Luisa) Tennessee EUBANKS, daughter of William EUBANKS and Rachael WAKEFIELD, in either POPE or VAN BUREN COUNTY, ARKANSAS. They had six children, born in ARKANSAS and MONTGOMERY COUNTY, KANSAS: my ancestor Margaret Lucinda, and her siblings William Caleb, James Wakefield, Zera (a male), Clara, and Floella Jane. Margaret Lucinda PARNELL married William Marshall (Billy) GILSON (barber) (son of Malinda BOSTON and James J. GILSON) in 1876 in Independence, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, KANSAS. William Marshall's father, James J. GILSON, served in the 2nd KANSAS CAVALRY (GAR) during the CIVIL WAR, died in 1876, and is buried in Robbins Cemetery west of COFFEYVILE, Fawn Creek Twp., Kansas. Malinda BOSTON's brother Kenyon was also in the Civil War, same unit. Malinda died in 1873; there is no tombstone for her in the cemetery her husband was buried in, and I don't know where she is buried. It is very likely that Malinda BOSTON'S parents were Wilson BOSTON and Mary LANGFORD (b VA), and that Wilson BOSTON's parents were Robert BOSTON (b 1778) and Frances McNESS who married in KY in 1795. In 1877 my grandmother, Hattie Belle GILSON, was born to Margaret PARNELL and William Marshall (Billy) GILSON, in Coffeyville, KANSAS. Hattie married F.A. McCORMICK in 1896 in Southwest City, MO, and Donald Gilson McCORMICK was born in 1907 in Collinsville, OK (Indian Territory at the time). |
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