Obituary of Nancy M. McCormick, Canandaigua, Ontario Co. NY

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Obituary;
McCormack- At Rochester,  Dec. 27 1916, Mrs. Nancy McCormack aged 91 years.
Interment at Canandaigua.
      MRS. NANCY McCORMACK
Mrs. Nancy McCormack, widow of Francis McCormack, and well known bus-
iness woman of Canandaigua, died at the home of her son William J.
McCormack, in Rochester, on Wednesday, at the great age of 91 years.
  Mrs. McCormack was born at Middlebury Vermont ,
on August 1, 1825, but  a few years latter became a resident of Franklin
County, this state, where her parents made their home. She was united in
marriage in 1840 to Francis McCormack, the ceremony being performed at
Sackett's Harbour, were the family had settled, following an effort to reach
Rochester by means of a lake boat. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. McAdam, were so
badly upset by the rough weather encountered that the captain insisted upon
their debarkation at Sackett's Harbour.
  Settling in Canandaigua Mr. McCormack established an ice business and
boat livery at the lake, the first enterprise of the kind conducted in the
place and upon her husbands death in 1868,
 Mrs. McCormack assumed it's management, a business that she followed with
success for a succeeding thirty-three years. When the village built a pier
into the lake for the accommodation of the steamboats, she was made the
piermistress and toll collector, fees being exacted for all vehicles that
drove on the wooden structure and from the boats which landed passengers
and fright thereon. She was faithful in the performance of this public
services she was in looking after her own private business and made the
acquaintance and gained the respect of almost the entire population of
the village.
  Mrs. McCormack was a woman of large stature and in her prime of vigorous
physique, giving the harvesting and storing of ice and it's distribution to
customers her personal supervision.
  Notwithstanding her great age, she continued active and mentally alert to
very near the end. Her memory was excellent and she recalled with interest
her experiences as the pioneer business woman of Canandaigua, where she is
remembered as a most interesting character.
  She had thirteen children, six of whom survive, as follows; John H.
McCormack of Canandaigua; William J. McCormack of Rochester; Mrs. Patrick
Meath and Mrs. David Gentner, of Canandaigua, and Mrs. Laura Koons of
Rochester. The funeral service was held at St. Mary's church in this city,
Friday morning. with interment in Calvery cemetery.