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A.
J. McCormick, 87, a resident of Idaho since 1903 and former
Canyon county assessor, died early this morning at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. C. P. Pollard in Boise.
The body was brought to the Case Funeral Home in Caldwell
today. Funeral services will be held in the Roswell
Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon at three o'clock.
Interment will be in the Roswell cemetery. The body will
lie in state at the church from 2:30 until 3:00 o'clock.
Survivors are besides the daughter at whose home he died, one
other daughter, Mrs. Florence M. Dewhirst of Portland, Ore.;
three sons, John Dale McCormick of Springfield, Ore; Robert
Rockwood McCormick of Caldwell and Plainfield, N. J.; Harold
Rockwood McCormick of Roswell, and 11 grandchildren.
Mrs. McCormick died in Roswell on December 1, 1937.
Andrew James McCormick was born at Canton, N. Y., on April 18,
1852. At the age of two years, his family moved to
Wisconsin. He father died when he was eight years old
and Andrew was taken by his maternal grandparents to live in
Minnesota, where he lived until coming to Idaho in 1903.
During his years in Roswell, he was prominent in community
affairs. He was the contractor for the former school
building and for the present Presbyterian church. For
many years he was superintendent of the Sunday school and an
elder in the church.
Mr. and Mrs.
McCormick moved to Caldwell from Roswell in 1919, where they
spent two years at the home of their daughter, returning to
Roswell in 1931, where he resided until Mrs. McCormick's
death.
A. J. McCormick was married to
Alice Jane Woodard, on September 30, 1873. They had one
son, John. The first Mrs. McCormick died May 24, 1881.
McCormick with his son moved to Ortinville, Minn., where he
met Julia Maria Rockwood, who became his wife April 18, 1883. |
