Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....Mr. M. E. "Bud" McCormick 1917
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(Cedartown Standard, July 26, 1917) 
Polk County never had a better tax officer nor a more beloved citizen than Mr. 
M.E. McCormick, who passed away Tuesday morning after many months of failing 
health. He knew that the end could not be far off, but his host of friends 
joined with him in gratification over the fact that he was enabled to finish 
the work for this year, and to receive the usual "well done’ of the state 
officials, who have never found anything but commendation for his work. "Bud" 
McCormick, as everyone called him, was born Jan. 15, 1848, in LaGrange and 
moved to Polk in 1851, On Dec. 27, 1876, he was united in marriage with Miss 
Frances Elizabeth Foust, who with one child—Mrs. J.C. Langford—survives to 
mourn the loss of a devoted husband and father. Mr. McCormick was a school 
teacher as well as a farmer, and was a useful citizen in private as well as 
public life. In 1881 he was elected Tax Collector, serving four years. He was 
then associated for four years with Tax Receiver Jas. Arrington, and was 
himself elected Tax Receiver in 1898, which position he has since held for all 
except two years. Funeral services were conducted yesterday at the residence on 
Gordon street by his pastor, Rev. J. D. Larkins of the First Baptist church, 
and the services at the cemetery were under the auspices of the Odd Fellows, of 
which fraternity he was a faithful and honored member. His brother county 
officials served as pallbearers. Among those coming from out of town to attend 
the funeral were Mr. J. D. McCormick, Sulphur Springs, Ala., Mr. W. L. 
McCormick, of Jacksonville, Ala., Mrs. Mattie Logan of Berrys, Mrs. M. E. Tate 
of Esom Hill. (Cedartown Standard, July 26, 1917) 


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