The McCormick Family
The COLUMBUS JOURNAL, September 17th.: Yesterday Mr. Francis A. McCormick and wife celebrated their golden wedding. Fifty years ago, September 16, 1834, Mr. F.A. McCormick and Elizabeth H. Crum were married, Rev. Edmond Sehon, Methodist Episcopal minister, performing the marriage ceremony, in a small frame house (yet standing) on the south side of Friend Street, between High and Front Streets. Mr. McCormick was born in this city, January 22, 1814, in a log house which stood on Town Street, opposite Town Street Church. His wife was born in Frederick County, Va., April 7, 1817, and moved with her parents to Columbus when six years of age. Mr. McCormick's father, George McCormick, was one of the first settlers in Ohio, he having come to Chillicothe about 1811, for the purpose of superintending the building of a residence for Governor Worthington. Later, through the influence of Governor Worthington, he secured the original State Capitol in this city, and remained thereafter a citizen of Columbus. We believe that he was for a term or two treasurer of Franklin County. Mr. and Mrs. McCormick were the parents of children who arrived at the age of maturity as follows: Mrs. James E. Sehon, deceased; Mrs. West O'Harra of this city; Mr. W.B. McCormick of Prairie Township; Mrs. D.M. Brelsford of this city; Mrs. E.H. Clover, deceased; Mrs. George U. Harn of Mansfield, and Miss Mahala McCormick, yet living with her parents. They also have living ten grandchildren. Both Mr. & Mrs. McCormick are enjoying good health and bid fair to live to celebrate the majority of their youngest living grandchild.
From the Mansfield Herald, September 18, 1884, Vol. 34, No. 44