APPENDIX I. A Few of the Many Letters I Have Receive In Gathering the Family Traditions. _________ Farmington, Mo., Aug. 29th, 1888. Hon. A.P. McCormick. My Dear Sir and Relative: -- Your welcome letter of Aug. 27th came to hand last evening, the first that it has been my pleasure to receive from you. Yourself and family are the only relatives of the name of McCormick which I have, except my brothers and their children. In compliance with your wish I will give you as correct a history of our family as I am capable. My father, Joseph McCormick, was born in Lincoln County, North Carolina, January 17th, 1778; his father, Andrew McCormick, came from Ireland about the middle of the last century, married in Pennsylvania, settled in North Carolina. My father was the eldest child of a family of four sons and three daughters. The sons, Joseph, David, Andrew and John, the daughters, Lizzie, Mary and Catherine; my father's brother, Andrew, settled in Kentucky and was, I think, the father of three children, one son and two daughters; the daughters married brothers by the name of Boyd, each settled in Illinois. I have heard they each became mothers of highly respected families. The son of Andrew McCormick (Manson by name) settled in Texas, and you are, as I understand, his only son. My father's brother, David, settled in Texas at an early day, I think in 1824 or 1825, never was married, and died in Texas -- (was married, but survived his family. Ed.) My father's brother, John, also lived and died a bachelor, he died in Galena, Illinois. My father emigrated with his mother to Missouri in 1807; his mother died in Missouri; was, I believe, the first person buried at the Belleview Presbyterian Church, in Washington County, Missouri. My father married Elizabeth Sloan, who was the mother of two children, Fielding Lewis McCormick and Dorcas, who (Dorcas) died early; Fielding McCormick married and settled in Monroe, Louisiana, where he has resided for about 40 years; he is the father of two sons and four daughters, his oldest son, Oscar, was in the Confederate army, under Pemberton, and mortally wounded in Vicksburg and died July 11th, a few days after the surrender of that city. Joseph, his youngest son, was also in the confederate army, wounded at Malvern Hill, and then transferred to the medical department and was assistant surgeon to the Second Georgia Regiment Infantry, where he remained until the close of the war. He lives in Monroe, Louisiana, has given up practice, and is now merchandising in that city; he has a family and is well respected. Mary McCormick, eldest daughter of Fielding L. McCormick, is married and lives in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana; his two remaining daughters, Rebecca and Mary, are single; Madilate is dead. Fielding L. McCormick is now in his 79th year of age, and is an elder in the Presbyterian Church of his town, a man highly esteemed by all who know him. My father's second son, Andrew Guy McCormick, is a son of my father's second wife (Jane Robison). He has neither wife nor children, lives at Benson, Arizona, is a stockman, having been in that business many years in California and Arizona, now 71 years old. Harriet Newel McCormick, now in her 66th year, is the only sister I ever had, she married John Simpson Frierson, of Columbia, Tennessee, a Presbyterian minister, many years since, has never had a child; is still living at Columbia, Tennessee. John Adams McCormick, my brother, owns and lives on father's old homestead, he is 62 years of age, a farmer, elder in the Presbyterian Church of Belleview, Washington County, Mo., has two sons, Junius Crittenden, 22 years of age, is in the cattle business with his uncle Andrew in Arizona. His sister, Hattie, is married to a gentleman named Nixon. Brother John's children are all at home, except those just mentioned; Lucy, age 20; Bernice, age 19; Lizzie, age 17; John, age 8; his wife's family name, Mary Sloan, is a most excellent woman. My youngest brother, Christopher, returned from California thirty-two years since, married Martha Sloan, raised family of seven children; was so injured by the kick of a horse, as to die from its effects in three days; his widow is still in California; he was a lumber merchant and farmer; left a competency for his family; his widow has carefully educated their children, and so far as I know have fair prospers in life. As to myself, I am also an elder in the Presbyterian Church, was 64 years old Aug. 1 of this present month. I have lost all my children but two, my oldest and youngest sons, who are half brothers, as I have been married twice, but I am happy to say my children love each other. My oldest son, Emmett Curran McCormick, is a graduate of the St. Louis Medical School, is practicing his profession, has a good practice, lives here in Farmington, five years since was married to Lucy Obenehan, a young lady descended from the French, they have three children, Luella Gertrude, Fielding and Florence; my youngest son, James Edward, is 14 years old, is going to school, I expect to educate him for the bar, if he inclines that way; I presume you know my profession is that of physician. I have a drug store, but do not practice my profession any more, although my health is good for my age, but I have considerable outside business and find the practice so laborious that I quit. I am in private life, have been for several years, I have been elected twice to the State Senate, and three times to Congress, but am now quietly at home with my little family. I have yet to give you the history of my father's sisters and their families. The eldest, Lizzie, married Enos Sherrill, in North Carolina, settled in West Tennessee, her eldest son, Richard, is a Presbyterian minister in Texas, Hazie, another son, died I believe in Tennessee, Sidney, another son, was, I am informed, a captain in the Confederate army and killed in the battle of Perryville, Ky.; Leander, another son, was a physician; Enos, still another son, died in Tennessee; of all their families I have lost sight. Her two daughters married two brothers of the name of Hall in Tennessee; but they also have passed from my knowledge, except cousin Dorcas Hall, whose family I knew thirty eight years ago in Tennessee, at which time she was the mother of a very interesting family. My aunts Catherine and Mary, father's remaining sisters, married two brothers, John Alexander and A.T. Alexander, who came from Carolina with father and settled with him in the Belleview settlement, they each raised large families, each was an elder with father in the Belleview church, and with him and mother all now lie buried there. Their children left the country, Rufus Alexander, eldest child of John and Catherine, went to Texas, married a daughter of Meyers Jones, but of his family I know nothing; Thompson, the next son of that family, was a few years since a banker in San Francisco, all the rest of that family have passed out of my knowledge, except one daughter in Illinois. A.T. Alexander and Aunt Mary had but two sons, who are both living, Joseph and John, they live in or near Marysville, Mo., Joseph is a wealthy banker, John a well to do farmer; of their sisters I know almost nothing, as most of them married and left that location. I have now given you as correct information of our family tree as I can. The increase has been remarkably slow. My grandfather and your great grandfather being the same person, came to this country from Ireland more than 100 years since; of his male descendants bearing the name of McCormick four live in Monroe, La., Fielding McCormick, his son and two grandsons; four live in Farmington, Mo., myself my two sons and one grandson; two live in Belleview, John McCormick and his son John; two live in Arizona, Andrew McCormick and his nephew, Junius Crittenden McCormick, and one in California, Robert McCormick, son of Christopher, my brother, the balance are yourself and descendants. I am greatly pleased that is has so fallen out that we have become correspondents. I would have written to you but did not know your address. I met, at the National Convention in St. Louis, Mr. Ledbetter of your State, who told me of your whereabouts. I should be very glad, indeed, if during some of your court vacations you would bring your family and visit us. I may travel some the coming winter to Tennessee, Louisiana and Arizona to visit relatives, and I now know your location I may be able, if I go, to visit you also. We have a very rich mineral county, Iron Mountain is in the county, St. Joe Lead Works, yielding 1000 pigs of lead every twenty-four hours; Doe Run and Vallies Mines are also in this county, and granite enough to build every city in the country, our farm lands are not near as good, I think, as yours, wheat is an average perhaps of twelve bushels per acre, corn perhaps twenty-five bushels per acre. Your Friend and Relative. J.R. McCORMICK P.S. My full name is, James Robinson McCormick. __________ MONROE, La., Oct. 23d, 1893. Judge A.P. McCormick, Dear Sir: -- I surely was much surprised, as well as much pleased, to receive your letter of 21st inst., making inquiry of the history of our family. I think you are in the main pretty well posted, but in some thing you are a little in error. I suppose you wish a history, or perhaps a family tree for your children; then let us go back as far as we can learn from father, the account to be given as nearly as we can recollect. Our grandfather, Andrew McCormick, came from the north of Ireland near 1770. He was through the Revolution. Grandmother's maiden name was Catherine Adams. Grandfather died early in the present century. Father, grandmother, Uncle David, Aunt Mary and Catherine moved to Missouri in 1807, one year afterwards grandmother died. In 1809 father and mother, who was Elizabeth Sloan, married. I was born 22d of August, 1810. Mother died when I was perhaps 2 1/2 years old; father married a second time to Jane Robinson, s you see that I am half-brother to the balance of the family. Mary and Martha Sloan, who married John and Christopher, are first cousins of mine, but no blood relation of their husbands. My mother was the daughter of Robert and Martha Sloan; grandmother Sloan's maiden name was Martha Harris. Aunt Jane Sloan, whom you speak of, was the wife of Uncle William Sloan, they had one daughter and she married the second Presbyterian minister, who ever labored across or west of the Mississippi River, the Rev. Thomas Donnell. When the family moved to Missouri they left the oldest sister, Aunt Lizzie Sherrill, who is the mother of Rev. R.E. Sherrill, now of Texas, who is our kinsman. Father's two sisters, Aunt Mary and Catherine, married two brothers, Thompson A. Alexander and John P. Alexander, father and mother of Rufus Alexander of Texas. I will now say something of my family. My wife died, over fifteen years ago, leaving me with four children living, Mary E., who is the wife of Mr. A.S. Keller, living twenty miles north of Monroe, on the H.C.A. & N.R.R., leading to St. Louis, Mo.; she has one son only, named for myself; their postoffice is Collins, Morehouse, La. Joseph H., the second, lives in Monroe; he did practice medicine for several years, but is now in the mercantile business -- wholesale grocery business; he has been married twice, had of the first family three children, Ira, Almore and Sally; the present family, six, Henry L., Effa Myra, Joseph, James, Guy and Leroy. My two youngest daughters, Rebecca A. and Catherine B. are living with me, keeping house for me; they have never married. I hope we will soon meet and can then talk over many things of the past. With best regards, and fraternally yours, F.L. McCORMICK. _______________ EASTON, Cal., February 6th, 1894. Mr. A.P. McCormick. Dear Cousin -- Your interesting letter was received during the holidays when my children and grandchildren were home for a few days, soon after which I had an attack of La Grippe, which has debilitated me so I have neglected to write as soon as I otherwise would have done. In thinking of family history there are some facts I have not been able to learn. An old letter from Cousin Caroline Alexander (which I will enclose) gives facts with which my husband was familiar, as well as many of which I was acquainted. She was a daughter of Alex. Alexander. She had two brothers, Rufus and John, four sisters, one died after she was married to James Black, she speaks of the others in her letter. We have a small box which was brought to the United States by the Adams family of which she writes. My husband's father lived and died in Washington Co., Mo., as well as his two sisters, Mary and Catherine Alexander. John died in Illinois, David in Texas, Elizabeth in Tennessee, Andrew in Kentucky. The death of lamented husband was caused from being kicked by a horse above the knee of his right leg. His leg was badly bruised and cut deeply by the cork of the horse's shoe. It gave him great pain; we called a physician a few hours later, who directed the cold water treatment, which eased the pain, but the organs of his body became inactive. He walked about the house a very little, keeping quiet most of the time until the fifth day, when bruised blood came from the cut and crysipelas set in. The eighth day his sufferings became intense, his mind wandered, and the ninth day, 15 minutes past 7 o'clock on the morning of the 12th of August, death released him of all pain and suffering. The evening before his death, when asked how he felt, he said, "I am going the way of all the earth." He was a good man in the fullest sense of the word. He was a kind husband, wise and considerate father, a blessing to the community in which he lived; was superintendent of a Sabbath school near where we lived in Yolo County in this State at that time. My eldest son was 15 years old at that time; he was a great comfort to me and protection to my family. He spent two or three years (school years) in the common school, and after he was 21 years old spent two years in college, and lived only two years and a few months after leaving school. His death was caused by malarial fever in a week from the time he took his bed. It was an afflictive providence to us, but we have a well grounded hope that he went to a heavenly home and has been spared from care and sorrow he would have suffered here, so I try to say from my heart, "The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord." These pages are so disconnected, I have not numbered them, as I have been several days writing them. If there is anything else in which I can assist you in getting information in regard to family history, write of it and I will be glad to do so. I wish you success in tracing the history of each branch of the family since the Revolutionary War. Long may you live to be a blessing and comfort to your family as well as to your country. Your Cousin, M.E. McCORMICK. __________ ROUND MOUNT, TEXAS, 11-20, 1893. Judge A.P. McCormick, Dallas, Texas: Dear Kinsman -- Father received a letter from you some time ago, asking him to have Brother Andrew, or Me, one, to write for him and give some information about the family history, but as neither of them are here, I will endeavor to reply for him. He says that his father's full name was John Price Alexander, and was born in the year 1788, in the State of North Carolina. His mother was born in the same State in the year 1795, and her full name was Catherine McCormick. Both their mothers were widows, and moved to Missouri together, in 1808. Father can't give the exact date of his parent's marriage, but they were married in Missouri, at your grandfather McCormick's house, and years after father was shown the walls of the old cabin in which his parents were married. He can't give the exact dates of the births and deaths of his brothers and sisters, but will give names and all other information that he can. Myra Eveline was the oldest, and died in Missouri many years ago. She was never married. Catherine Emeline married a man named Newton Adams, and lived in Illinois a number of years, then moved with her only daughter to Kansas, where she died a year or two ago; her daughter married a man named Hubbard and they still live in Kansas. My father (John Rufus) is next in rotation, and was born in Missouri the 28th of October, 1817, came to Texas in 1838, and in 1843 was married to Mary Jane Jones, who was born in Missouri, Oct. 30, 1821. Cynthia Elvira married a man named Billings, in California, and died in the same State many years ago. William Thompson was born in Missouri, in November, 1821, and removed to California in the fifties, he was never married, and is still living in San Francisco. Andrew McCormick is still unmarried, and has lived in California since the fifties. Eliza Jane and Mary Ann were the twins, and Eliza Jane died in Missouri. Mary Ann went to California with the rest of the family, and married a man named Billings (brother to Cynthia's husband), but is now a widow living in Watsonville, Cal. Thomas Donnell moved to California and married at Watsonville, where he still resides; his wife was Irish, and I don't know her name. Charlotte Augusta, born in Missouri, and married David Calvin McCord, they are living at Vandalia, Illinois. Lysander Pembroke was born in Missouri and married in California, and is now living near the town of Santa Clara, Cal. Adala Haseltine was born in Missouri and died in Illinois. Oscar Price was born in Missouri and died in Oregon. The above is all that father can tell of his father's family, but you can get the exact date of their births, marriages, and deaths by writing to D.C. McCord, of Vandalia, Ills., as he has possession of the old family Bible. We will now give the record of father's family; they were all born in Fayette County, Texas. John Myers was born October 14th, 1844, and died August 19th, 1845. Thaddeus Thompson was born May 24th, 1847 , and died at LaGrange September 14th, 1886. Rufus McCormick was born October 19th, 1849, and lives in Blanco County, Texas. Amelia Haseltine was born October 24th, 1851, and is living in Eureka, California. Oscar Peery was born March 13th, 1854, and died January 3d, 1889. Elsie Catherine was born September 2d, 1854, and died March 5th, 1857. Cora Augusta was born March 18th, 1858, and is living in Weimar, Texas. Ida Oliver was born May 28th, 1860. Cynthia Jane was born March 18, 1864, and died August 10th, 1869. Andrew Pembroke was born January 7th, 1867, and is now in the Indian Territory. Frank McCord was born May 25th, 1869. Thaddeus Thompson married Miss Lucy Riggles the 11th of February, 1870. Rufus McCormick married Julia Garrett November, 1874. Oscar Peery married Mary Robertson, November 30th, 1876. cora Augusta married T.L. Davis the 22d of December, 1880. Ida Oliver was married January 19th, 1890, to Thomas Gordon Greig in Humbolt County, California. Frank M. Alexander was married December 24th, 1890, to Elitha Hardin. We have now given all the information we can and hope that it may be of some benefit to you, but we know that it is not as full an account as you would like to have; however, it is the best we can do, and you may arrange it in any shape you choose. Please send us a copy of the book, and also send one to my sister, Mrs. Davis, at Weimer, if you succeed in finishing it up. Yours Truly, F.M. ALEXANDER. ___________________ MARYSVILLE, Mo., Oct. 27th, 1893. Judge A.P. McCormick, Dear Sir: -- I was somewhat surprised to receive a letter from you a few days since, having had no previous knowledge of you, as there has been no correspondence in that direction between the families, of which I had any knowledge. I will proceed to answer your interrogatories to the best of my ability; My father died on the 17th day of April, 1845; my mother died on the 20th of the same month. Aunt Catherine Alexander died about six weeks later and Uncle John Alexander the next Spring. Have not the exact day of the month on which they died. Uncle Joseph McCormick died in the fall of 1839 or 1840, I am not certain which. The last I knew of his family, Fielding lived in Iron County, Mo., and James in St. Francis County, Mo.; Harriet, the only daughter, lived in Tennessee, she married a Presbyterian preacher; the younger boys went to California and some have died since they went there; I don't know how many are living now. Uncle John's family have most all died; some in Missouri, some in Illinois and some in California. I saw Thompson, Rufus's oldest brother, in San Francisco, 14 years ago last September; he was in poor health at that time; we corresponded some afterwards, but have not heard from him for a long time; he was very successful in his mining business, became wealthy, owned a large amount of land, but never married. Andrew, the next brother, had a sheep ranch, what last heard from. Donald, the next brother, was running a hotel down on the coast, south of "Frisco at the time I was there. Pembroke I know nothing of. Oscar, the youngest, died at Jacksonville, Oregon, two or three years after the family went west. None of the boys ever married, except Donald. Two of the girls died shortly after they went there and one married a man named Billings, they had two or three children, but he (Billings) had died a long while before I was in the west; his wife was living south of 'Frisco, some hundred miles or so. I did not see any of the relatives except Thompson. As to our own family, will say my oldest sister is living at Steele City, Nebraska, and was 82 years old the 11th day of February last, she is in good health but rather feeble. Adaline, the next sister, died here in Northwest Missouri about six years since. I am the next of the family, was 78 years old the 1st of September last. The next in family was Albert, two years younger than myself, he died when he was 16 years old. Celina, the next, died about forty-five years since at Iron County, Mo. Catherine, the next, is living here in our town now. Miranda, the next, died at Steele City, Nebraska, two years since. John, the youngest, is living in Western Nebraska, is engaged in the drug business, and was well the last I heard from him; his wife died here three years ago, and he has been rather unsettled since. I have done the best I could as to the location, also as to the deaths among relatives. If you have any inquiries to make I will be pleased to give all the information I can obtain. I was down through Texas little over two years ago; if I had known you were at Dallas I would have called upon you. I had a son at Monterey, Mexico, at that time and made him a visit, also to see the Greasers. We have all made a living, none grown rich except Thompson, that I know of. My wife and I are living alone, the children are all married; three are living in Kansas, one in Arkansas and three here. Our second daughter died at the birth of her first child. I have about thirty grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Yours Truly, JOSEPH E. ALEXANDER _______________ STEELE CITY, Neb., Feb. 16th, 1894. Dear Friend, I received your letter a day or two ago and was glad mine gave the information you wanted, but I do not know that I can give you a satisfactory reply to your other inquiries. I think it was from Germany great-grandfather came. Your grandfather McCormick and your Uncle Henry Steele moved back to Kentucky before my recollection. I don't know how many brothers or sisters Aunt Sally had; her sister Rebecca, who married Robert Stevenson, lived our nearest neighbor for a good many years; her younger children we were raised together, but they left that part of Missouri long before we did and I have not heard anything of them for a long time. Uncle Reuben (Uncle Roben as we always called him) was all the school teacher we ever had. In my school day children did not the advantages of obtaining an education that they do now; if they learned to read and write and a little arithmetic and grammar, they were called pretty good scholars. So I hope you will excuse my old-fashioned, and imperfect way of writing. Uncle Roben and Aunt Becky (as we always called them) were everybody's friends. I think a good many of the family are dead. I do not know anything more to write. If you see Fielding again give him my respects; is his wife and sister Harriet still living? Write again. I feel like my days of writing are nearly over; you can see that my handwriting is very unsteady. Goodbye from your friend, C.C. ALEXANDER. _________________ GRAHAM, Texas, Sept. 6, 1888. Judge A.P. McCormick: Dear Sir -- Allow me to correct a mistake I made to-day, when speaking of my grandmother, Catharine McCormick. I spoke only from memory, but I find the written record thus: "Catherine Mccormick, wife of Andrew McCormick, was the daughter of John Adams, who was born in Germany." He left with his sister Catherine, to avoid persecution and death by the Papists. What became of that sister the record does not show. He came from Pennsylvania or New Jersey, through Virginia to North Carolina, perhaps to Rowan County. The record continues: "A Protestant of the Calvinistic School, he early and ardently espoused the American cause in the revolution of 1776. His sons were John, Peter and Jacob, and his daughters Catherine, Mary and Hannah. Catherine married McCormick, Mary married Groves, and Hannah married Lowrance. For nearly thirty years before his death he was entirely blind, and died in Rowan County, N.C., at the advanced age of about one hundred years." Thus you see that my grandmother, Catherine McCormick was born in America, but her father, John Adams, was born in Germany. It was her brother, Jacob Adams, that I knew personally. Yours Truly, R.E. SHERRILL. ______________ LINCOLN, Ill., Dec. 8th, 1893. Judge A.P. McCormick, Dear Sir: -- Your letter of Oct. 6th was duly received and has been read with much interest by many of the children and grandchildren of your two Aunts Juliet and Zillah, few of whom had any definite or satisfactory information concerning Uncle Manson's family. In 1856 I met a college classmate of yours from whom I learned of you, and that you and your sister, Elizabeth, were the only living children of this family. I have often met people since who knew you, and I remember that about two years since I received your kind regards through Miss Kate Owsley, of Lincoln, who met you at Danville, Ky. I have often thought I would write to you, and hoped to meet you sometime. You state that you have never seen either of your Aunts Juliet or Zillah, and I presume you could have included Aunt Eliza Causey in that statement, who is the elder and who came to Illinois with her husband and settled in Woodford County in 1835, I think. You are unfortunate in not having known these three aunts. They each possessed strong individuality. They lived very beautiful and useful lives. Each was the mother of a large family of children. Their husbands were farmers and each had property sufficient to enable them to live comfortably. Aunt Eliza was of a literary turn of mind and spent much time reading good books. I taught school near her home in 1854 and 1855, and was with her as much of the time as I could spare. I loved and admired her very much. You request me to give you details of my mother's and Aunt Zillah's families; I regret that I am unable to give you a correct genealogy of Aunt Eliza Causey's family also. They had ten children. Six sons and four daughters, all of whom lived to manhood and womanhood. The two eldest were daughters, Euphemia, who married a Mr. Whorrall, an Englishman of good education, a farmer residing near Metamora, Woodford Co., Ills. She had three or four children, all girls, I believe. She has been dead several years. Emeline married a Mr. Gish, a farmer residing near her father. They had a large family of children; accumulated a good property. They moved from that county some years since, and I have not their address. John Lucian was a merchant of much energy, but unfortunate. He failed several times. Lost his wife, his daughter and only child, and all his property, and is now destitute. Charles, Joseph and Thomas, all large, fine looking young men and near each other in age, enlisted in the army. Charles and Joseph died of malaria in the swamps of the Yazoo river. Thomas died at Spokane, Washington, in 1892. He was an active member of the Presbyterian church in that city. He left a family. The others, two sons and two daughters, married and moved to Missouri. I do not know their address. I regret that I do not have the address of a member of the family. I shall continue efforts to get correct details of the family. My father, James Hall Boyd, war born June 20th, 1807, in Stewart County, Tenn., near Dover. See "Boyds" in General Grant's map of Fort Donelson in his Memoirs, page 298. My mother, Juliet Ann McCormick, was born July 23d, 1808, in Christian County, Ky. They were married December 28th, 1828, in Christian County, Ky., until in May, 1839, when they came to Illinois and settled in Christian County, seven miles southwest of Taylorsville, her ____ died August 30th, 1846, leaving his family in comfortable circumstances. They had eight children, four sons and four daughters: Joseph Caldwell, born August 5th, 1830, died December 30th, 1830. Sarah Elizabeth, born April 28th, 1832. John Henry, born April 11th, 1834, died November 28th, 1854. Abner Clemens, born March 30th, 1836 Adlai Manson, born April 8th, 1838. Isabella McCormick, born November 29th, 1840, died January 12th, 1841. Ann Eliza, born March 11th, 1843, died August 30th, 1847. Cornelie R.H., born November 26th, 1846, died October 20th, 1848. My mother married (second time) Joseph McCreary Bone, November 7th, 1848. He was born in East Tennessee, April 12th, 1812. Came to Illinois with his father about 1821. He became a clergyman in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1831, and continued active in the ministry until the death of my mother in 1876. He possessed ability as a preacher and pastor, and was recognized in his presbytery as a wise counselor. He made but one change of pastorage after 1845. He died August 9th, 1888, at the residence of his son, Thomas A. Bone, at Decatur, Ill. We loved him very much. They had but one child, a son, Thomas Andrew, born June 19th, 1851. My mother died July 10th, 1876, at the residence of her son, Thomas A. Bone, who then resided at Pomona, Kansas. Sarah Elizabeth, second child of Jas. H. Boyd, married, first, John Allen Bell, Oct. 1st, 1851, in Christian CLounty, Ill. He was a farmer of Macon County, Ill. In 1864 he moved to Lincoln Co., Ill. and in 1871 moved to Pomona, Kansas, where he died Aug. 3d, 1873. They had no children. She married, second time, Calvin G. Koewn, a Cumberland Presbyterian clergyman. They have a beautiful home at Lincoln, and enjoy the income from two valuable farms near the city. They have no children. I married Mary Elizabeth Paisley, at Elm Point, Bond County, Ill., Dec. 22d, 1859, by whom I have two children: Joel Henry, born Feb. 10th, 1861. He is not married, has been in business with me since he left college. Dora Ann, born Jan. 28th, 1865, was married Sept. 15th, 1886, to Frank Annis Dearborn, cashier of First National Bank of Wayne, Neb. He is the second son of the late Hon. Luther Dearborn, a well known state Senator and corporation lawyer of Chicago. He is now of the firm of Bresler & Dearborn, in the real estate and loan business, at Wayne, Neb. They have three children: Helen Boyd, born January 4th, 1888. Luther, born February 17th, 1890. Henry, born May 4th, 1892. My wife died November 12th, 1884. In 1852, Father Bone left the farm to reside in Taylorsville, Ill. I then went to school and taught school for four y ears, and in March, 1856, I went into a store as clerk for one year. In September, 1857, I engaged in merchandising, at Donnellson, Ill., and continued there until 1864, when I came to Lincoln, Ill., all at once engaged in the dry goods business, and have continued in that business since. Two years after the death of my wife, my daughter was married and left me. I then took rooms in a private residence which my son and I have occupied since. We are living at a hotel. I have tried to supply the loos of my hone and the companionship of my wife and daughter with good books and have found much entertainment in the vestibule of the temple of history with Gibbon, Guizot, Carlyle, Hume, Macaulay, etc., and other interesting authors. Adlai Manson, 5th child of Jas. H. and Juliet Boyd, married Nancy Jane Donnell in Bond County, Ill., Jan. 11th, 1859, where he engaged at farming. In 1874, he moved to Pomona, Kans., and again engaged at farming. In 1885 he moved to Ottawa, Kans., invested some in real estate, and is still living there in poor health. They had four children: Abner Hall, born Nov. 7th, 1859. Anna Bell, born Aug. 9th, 1861. Elizabeth Eva, born Jan. 17th, 1866, died Nov. 29th, 1877. Lula May, born May 6th, 1881. Abner Hall Boyd, 1st child of A.M. Boyd, married Ida Clayton in Kansas Dec. 30th, 1885. They have four children: Donnell Clayton, born May 18th, 1887. Ethel, born Dec. 26th, 1888. Verrie, born Aug. 16th, 1890. Kemlin Guyle, born Aug. 9th, 1892. He practiced medicine for four or five years in Kansas and then went into the ministry of the M.E. Church in that State. The two daughters of Adlai M. Boyd are at home with their father. Thomas Andrew Bone, my mother's youngest child, married Katherine Asenith Hill Feb. 4th, 1875, by whom he had four children: Hugh McCreary, born Jan. 13th, 1876. Gussie Hill, born July 16th, 1879. John J., born June 14th, 1882, died April 14th, 1883. Emma Viola, born July 7th, 1884. Thomas A. Bone was a farmer until 1887, when he moved to Decatur and is now superintending the Hatfield Milling Co.'s plant at Decatur, Ill. Alfred Boyd was born Nov. 7th, 1809, near Dover, Stewart County, Tenn. Zillah A. McCormick was born July 7th, 1814, in Christian County, Ky. They were married in that county Dec. 27th, 1832, and at once settled on a farm in Trigg County, Ky., where they resided until in May, 1839. They came to Illinois in that year with my father and settled in Christian County on adjoining lands, where they remained until they died. Zillah A. Boyd died Sept. 9th, 1877. Alfred Boyd was run down by a fast train on the Wabash Railroad and instantly killed on November 13th, 1880, near his own door yard. Aunt Zillah was a most excellent Christian woman. She had great maternal affection that touched all within the circumference of her sympathy. She and Uncle Alfred were very devoted members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, as are now all of their children who are living. There were thirteen children born to them, eight sons and five daughters, eight of whom are now living: Joseph H., born January 21st, 1834. John A., born October 9th, 1835, died October 28th, 1835. Rebecca A., born October 16th, 1836, died May 6th, 1870. James M., born November 5th, 1838. Thomas A., born October 3d, 1840, died October 5th, 1841. Elizabeth E., Born September 7th, 1842. Alfred Ewing, born May 12th, 1844. Robert Andrew, born May 15th, 1846. Sarah Eliza, born August 26th, 1848. Josiah Leslie, born April 25th, 1850. Harriet E., born November 5th, 1852, died December 13th, 1854. Mary L., born February 3d, 1855. David B., born June 1st, 1857, died April 19th, 1867. Joseph H. Boyd, the first child of Alfred and Zillah Boyd, married Minerva Ann Donnell, September 15th, 1858, by whom he had nine children, seven sons and two daughters; eight are living: John A., born October 7th, 1859. James A., born August 27th, 1861. Adlai Milner, born March 23d, 1863. Ollie L., born September 23d, 1865. Ottis H., born March 4th, 1869, died October 12th, 1870. Ewing D., born April 11th, 1873. Calvin O., born June 12th, 1874. Flossey Alberta, born February 24th, 1880. Robt. Rollin, born Nov. 3d, 1885. Minerva A., his wife, died Nov. 3d, 1886. He married a second time Florence C. Davis, Aug. 5th, 1891. Has one child by her, Emily E., born Aug. 19th, 1892. He is a prominent citizen, was a farmer, an extensive dealer in live stock, grain and lumber, and proprieter of the town of Palmer, Ill., where he resides. He accumulated a large property, but it went down in the panic of 1873. He had been dealing in options. He came out, however, with two good farms of about 160 acres each, which he saved from the wreck. His integrity and ambition saved his credit and he is recovering some. John A., oldest son of Joseph H. Boyd, married Ida Cassel, March 3d, 1885. Had four children: Alfred C., born April 6th, 1886. Elsie A., born July 3d, 1887; died July 28th, 1888. Bunetta, born Oct. 2d, 1888. Mary, born July 30th, 1891. John A. is a promising young man, is merchandising at Palmer, Ill. Is an elder in the C.P. Church, Supt. S. School and a church worker. James Azel, 2d son of Joseph H. Boyd, married Minnie Curry, Oct. 1st, 1890. Has one child, Vera, born Sept. 20th, 1891. He is a farmer near Palmer, Ill. Adlai Milner, 3d son of Joseph H. Boyd, married Elizabeth Hueffner, Jan. 15th, 1891. Is a successful miller at Appleton City, Mo., and is a very fine young man. Olive L., 4th child of Joseph H. Boyd, was married to J.A. Shrout, March 20th, 1890. They have one child, a son Earl, born January 6th, 1891. He is a farmer, rasies fine stock. Is a merchant in a general store. Trader. A regular hustler at Palmer, Ill. Ewing D., 5th child of Joseph H. Boyd, married C.E. Corn, Feby. 22d, 1893. Is farming in Christian County, Ill. The three younger children of J.H. Boyd are at home with their father. The above sons of Joseph H. Boyd are energetic, of good habits, and are all members of the C.P. Church. Rebecca A., 3d child of Alfred and Zillah Boyd, was married to B.M. Burdick, Oct. 13th, 1856. They had five children. Three died in infancy; the two living are: Jennetta A., born Oct. 13th, 1860. Emma M., born July 6th, 1863. Mr. Burdick was a native of New Jersey, came to Illinois in 1850, engaged in teaching and farming, and was very successful. After the death of his wife, May 6th, 1870, he remained on his farm with his two little girls until he died in 1878. Jennetta A., oldest daughter of Rebecca A., married Allen Corzine March 12, 1879. They have four children: Roy A., born Dec. 22d, 1882. Bertha N., born Feb. 22, 1885. Clarence Glenn, born Feb. 19th, 1887. Grace A., born May 24th, 1890. He resides on his wife's farm in Christian County, Ill., to which he has added other farms, and is now worth about $50,000. Emma M., 2d daughter of Rebecca A. Burdick, married Warren Corzine Oct. 26th, 1881. They have five children: Maude E., born Nov. 22, 1882. Charles N., born Nov. 24, 1884. Josie M., born Dec. 8th, 1886. Pearl, born Nov. 13th, 1889. Edith, born Jan. 12th, 1891. Warren Corzine is also a farmer in the same county and is quite as successful as his brother above mentioned. Their address is Stonington, Ills. James M. Boyd, fourth child of Alfred and Zillah Boyd, married Martha Leigh April 4th, 1861. They had ten children, eight now living. Charles N., born April 18, 1862. Addie A., born Aug. 17th, 1865. Edgar N., born Feb. 18th, 1867, died Feb. 24th, 1869. Joseph E., born March 16th, 1869. Lillie D., born Jan. 26th, 1871. Edgar S., born Dec. 31st, 1875. Alfred L., born Dec. 31st, 1877, died March 6th, 1879. James, born Jan. 20th, 1880. Clara, born Feb. 14th, 1882. Lida, born May 16th, 1884. James M. Boyd served about four years in Co. G, 41st REg. Ill. Vol.; was Second- Lieutenant when the war closed; when he came home his once splendid physique was ruined and his health broken down. He has succeeded in supporting and schooling his large family of children. Charles N., eldest son ofJames M. Boyd, married in North Dakota, September 23d, 1888; has three children. He is a carpenter at Turlor, N.D. Addie N., second child of James M. Boyd, married Christian Rothinburger, November 6th, 1887. He is a machinist. Have not his address. He lives in North Dakota. They have three children. Lillie D., third child of James M. Boyd, married Suel Boyd, of South Dakota. He is farming. I have not his address. They have two children. The rest of the children of James M. LBoyd are at home with their father. Elizabeth Ellen, sixth child of Alfred and Zillah Boyd married Cyrus B. Denny, November 6th, 1861. They had four children: Eliza Bell, born February 7th, 1863. Alfred William, born February 1st, 1865. Addie E., born June 10th, 1867. Cyrus B., born August 9th, 1869, died August 20th, 1870. Cyrus B. Denny was a farmer in good circumstances, prominent and popular in church and community. He died October 13th, 1869, leaving ample means to support his family. Elizabeth E. married (second time) William D. Volentine, March 19th, 1873. They had three children. Thomas E. born February 20th, 1874. Mary L., born February 1st, 1876. Zillah E., born November 30th, 1877. She lives on her farm at Sorento, Ill., with her three Volentine children. Eliza Bell, eldest daugther of Elizabeth E. Denny, is not married, owns a farm and is teaching at West Plains, Kas. Alfred William, second child of Eizabeth E. Denny, married Josephine McPherson, November 5th, 1891. He has one child, Eugene Roland, born August 14th, 1892. He is a minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church; will complete a classical course in Lincoln University this year. He is a promising young man. Addie E., third child of Elizabeth E. Denny, married Finnis T. Thacker, a farmer, residing at West Plains, Kas. They have one child, Vera I., born August 30th, 1888. Alfred Ewing, seventh child of Alfred and Zillah Boyd, married Cyrena Volentine, Oct. 3d, 1873. They had three children: Ollie Helen, born Jan. 2d, 1875. Effie Volentine, born Dec. 3d, 1876, died in infancy. Benjamin F., born March 9th, 1877. His wife died March 20th, 1877. He is married, second time, Julia A. Randall, May 10th, 1879, by whom he had six children: Florence E., born May 20th, 1880. Earnest Arthur, born Aug. 6th, 1882. William Logan, born Sept. 13th, 1884. Mary May, born April 30th, 1886. Sallie Loretta, born March 23d, 1887. Alfred Stella, born Sept. 12th, 1890. He is farming and resides on his father's old homestead. He is a member of the County Board of Supervisors, Christian County, Ill. Andrew Robert, eighth child of Alfred and Zillah Boyd, married Sarah Harvey, Nov. 14th, 1872. They had five children: Jessie J., born Jan. 29th, 1874. James S., born May 6th, 1876. Robert A., born Oct. 22d, 1878. Frank L., born Jan. 14th, 1881, died July 7th, 1881. Emma E., born May 16, 1883. He is a farmer, residing at Nelson, Cal. He had but small means, but is a large, noble looking, respectable, selfrelying man. Sarah Eliza, ninth child of Alfred and Zillah Boyd, married John T. Anderson, Jan. 25th, 1870. They had four children: Mary D., born July 10, 1871, died young. Walter B., born Feb. 23d, 1873. George Barton, born Aug. 23d, 1875. Addie E., born Feb. 26th, 1878. He is an architect and builder, resides at Taylorville, Ill., owns a farm; is an elder in the C.P. Church and a very active consistent churchman. Is a democrat, the only one of that family connection, but a very fine man. Josiah Leslie, 10th child of Alfred and Zillah Boyd, married Laura Hewitt, May 16th, 1875. (She is a sister of cousin W.L. Long's wife. Their father was a wealthy farmer of Christian County, Ill.) They have seven children: Franklin A., born Feb. 6th, 1876. Zillah A., born July 6th, 1877. Laura E., born Aug. 29th, 1880. Olive Edna, born Aug. 9th, 1883. Emma Lotta, born Jan. 23d, 1886. William L., born Feb. 25th, 1888. Velma G., born Jan. 15th, 1892. Josiah Leslie is merchandising at Palmer, Ill., and managing his wife's farms. Mary L., 12th child of Alfred and Zillah Boyd, married Geo. E. Anderson Sept. 23rd, 1874. He was a farmer residing in Christian County, Ill. They had two children, daughter and son: Jessie Myrtle, born Dec. 7th, 1875. Harry Boyd, born Nov. 3d, 1877. Geo. E. Anderson died Aug. 26th, 1879. Mary L. is residing at Lincoln and educating her two children in Lincoln University. Not a member of my father's family, or of Uncle Alfred Boyd's family or of their descendants, have ever been intemperate. The same can be said also of Aunt Eliza's family; and, as far as I am informed, only one member of her family used tobacco in any form. Acting on your suggestion, I have taken a copy of above details to file with my papers. With this in mind I have made brief notes throughout that may not be of interest to you, and I fear you will think it tedious. Hope you will not pass through Lincoln again without stopping off to see me. Very truly your cousin and friend, A.C. Boyd ====================== Letter from Mrs. Elizabeth Lucinda McKinney. Mr. A.P. McCormick. My Dear Son: -- Your communication of the 19th inst. reached me yesterday, and as I have a family record of my father's family in a shape that I can send you, I take pleasure in doing so without delay. The other questions you ask I will be glad to answer, so far as I can. I don't know whether Aunt Amanda had any other name or not. Aunt Jane's full name was Jane Caroline, and Uncle Jame's was James Lincoln. My own little girls' were Cornelia Elizabeth and Hester Anna; the baby's name was Cerre Campbell; he was born the 29th of January, 1862, and died the 2d day of February, 1862. Cornelia was born 13th of May, 1844, and died the 21st of August, 1846. Hester was born the 12th of February, 1851, and died the 11th of October, 1854. Dr. J. Wilson Copes was born in the State of Delaware, at Lewistown, on the 5th of November, 1809, and died on the 8th of October, 1863. Thomas Thaddeus was born at Houston, on the 11th of November, 1846 , and died the 18th of March, 1878. Bell was born the 5th of November, 1840; and James, the 7th of March, 1849. I believe this is all, except what I can tell you of my dear father and his family, which, I greatly regret to say, is not much; however, he did tell me, I reckon, more about his early life than he did anyone else, except our mother, and it will give me much pleasure to put the facts I know of his life, from his tenth year, when he left his mother and went to Nashville, Tenn., to live with his uncle, up to the time he and mother were married. I will do this as well as I can, and send it to you in a few days. My own health is good and the family are well. When any of you write me, address me at Round Rock, care of B.T. Bell. Affectionately, MOTHER. J.B. Copes was married to Mary Burke, at Houston, December 29th, 1865, by Rev. Thomas Castleton. J.B. Copes was married to Leah E. Bell, at Austin, December 30th, 1874, by Rev. E.B. Wright. APPENDIX II. __________ THE NAMES, DATES OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS OF OUR, McCORMICK AND McKENZIE, FAMILY, AS FAR AS I HAVE COLLECTED ACCURATE INFORMATION THEREOF.