Biographical Sketch of Russel McCormmach, Webster County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Russel McCormmach is one of the well to do farmers of Webster county,
Mo., and was born in Jackson county, Tenn., on the 9th of September,
1830.  His father, Johnson McCormmach, was born in Virginia on the 6th
of July, 1806, and when a young man went to Tennessee with his parents
where he was married to Miss Mercilla Brown, of that state, on the 10th
of May, 1827.  In January, 1856, they moved to Webster county, Mo., 
where a farm was made, on which they resided until 1865, when they took
up their abode in Pike county, Mo.  There the father died November 8,
1870.  Russel McCormmach was reared in Tennessee, and was there married
in April, 1854, to Mary King, of that State.  He came to Missouri with 
his parents, and after a short residence in Webster county located in
Taney county, near Forsyth, where he cleared a small farm, and resided
for about three years.  In 1859 he settled upon his present tract of
land in Webster county, which comprises 240 acres, and is one of the
best farms between Marshfield and Seymour.  He has 100 acres of land
under cultivation, on which are excellent buildings and plenty of good
water.  He and wife, who died April 28, 1871, became the parents of six
children: Alfred J., William T., John C., James Russell, Sarah Ann
(wife of Thomas Hale), and Mary M. (wife of William Moore).  Mr. McCor-
mmach's present wife was Miss Lydia Julian, who was born in Knox county
Tenn., on the 12th of December, 1842, by whom he has the following
children: Ollie L., wife of Nathaniel L. George; Leroy, Huldah J.,
Joseph P., Harriet M. and Martha L.  His wife has three children by her
first husband, Solomon Scott.  Their names are, respectively, Larken 
R., Mary L. (wife of Samuel Mitchler) and Stephen R. A.  Mrs. McCorm-
mach is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a stanch
Democrat in his political views.  In July, 1862, he enlisted in the
Eighth Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, and served as a private until the
close of the war, being a participant in the battles of Little Rock,
Pilot Knob, Prairie Grove, Pumpkin Bend fight, and a number of other
skirmishes.

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