MY OBITUARY

Written by
Harriet Kitchel McCormick
before her death in 1943

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I was born January 10, 1844 in Lake County, Indiana. I am the sixth child in a family of 10 children. I came with my folks to Iowa when I was 6 years of age.

My parents were genuine old-style Methodist people who believed in conversion in order to become Christian. I was graciously converted in my 14th year. I joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in Warren County, Iowa under the pastorate of Rev. A. Lawback in 1858.

I attended school at the Des Moines Conference Seminary in Indianola under the direction of E. H. Winans in 1861 and 1862. I was married first in 1863 to Sidney A. Gaylor by Rev. J. C. Reed of Indianola, Iowa. My husband was a clerk in the Government employ in Washington and we lived in Washington, D.D. for a time, then removed to Princeton, New Jersey where my first child was born in 1864. He is John B. Gaylor of Thermopolis, Wyoming. After teaching school for 8 years I married second to Montgomery McCormick, a veteran of the Civil War. Then three children came to the McCormick home. They are George C. and James McCormick of Fort Collins, Colorado and Jennie Martin of York, Nebraska.

I have four children, all living, and five grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and only one sister survives me. All the balance of my large connections have preceded me to the Spirit World. "I have steered my Barke where waves rolled dark. I have crossed a stormy sea, but I know I shall land on a beautiful strand where loved ones are waiting for me.

Fade, fade, each Earthly joy
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