OBIT: John James McCORMICK, 1876, Blair County, PA

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OBITUARY.

J. J. McCormick.

The acquaintances and friends of Mr. J. J. McCormick were startled
this morning by the information of his death, which occurred at half-
past three o'clock.  He had been ill but a few days.  On Tuesday last
he was seized by an attack of vertigo while at work, and after
reaching his residence, 1119 Thirteenth avenue, he found himself so
weak that he was forced to take his bed.  From that time he grew
rapidly worse, having several severe hemorrhages, and despite the
efforts of his physician and friends, his disease finally proved
fatal.  Mr. McCormick was a gentleman of fine education, he served
with distinction during the late war and was well and favorably known
both in professional and amateur theatrical circles.  He was for six
years president and manager of the G.W. Brooke Dramatic Association of
this city.  Notwithstanding his apparently distant and dignified,
soldierly bearing at all times, he had a warm heart, and was
surrounded by a circle of warm personal friends.  All who knew him
will regret sincerely his unexpected and sudden death, and express the
hope that he will have eternal rest.  He leaves a loving wife and two
small children to mourn his death.  The  funeral will take place on
Sunday afternoon between the hours of two and three o'clock.  He was
aged thirty-five years, nine months and eighteen days.  May he rest in
peace.

Clipping dated March 31, 1876

BCGS, St. John's Cemetery, Altoona, Pa., page 63:
MC CORMICK, John James, b. 1840 - d. 3/31/1876 - 1st lt. Co. D, 76th
Pa. Inf., Civil War, Section New C