Display Patriot - P-245820 - Robert Sure MCCORMICK Sr

Robert Sure MCCORMICK Sr

SAR Patriot #: P-245820

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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Private
DAR #: A075665

Birth: 1738 Lancaster / Lancaster / PA
Death: 12 Oct 1818 Steeles Tavern / Augusta / VA

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Private, Colonel Wm Irvine's Pennsylvania Regiment Company 5
  2. New Jersey Campaign 1776, Carolina Campaign under Nathaniel Green. Battles of Cowpens, Guilford Court House, helped push back Cornwallis. Wounded at Battle of Guilford
  3. Private, Rockbridge County Militia

Additional References:
  1. NSDAR RC #861010, #812995 cites: CREEL, SELECTED VA REV WAR RECS, Volume 1, pg 249-250
  2. Gwathmey, Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, pg 519

Spouse: Martha Sanderson
Children: William; James; Robert; George; Elizabeth; Martha
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1987-10-19 WV 224324 Robert William Patton (130077) William   
1988-09-07 VA 221910 Elma Grant Bishop (131803) William   
1988-11-03 VA 221696 William Franklin Swartzel (132009) William   
1989-06-12 VA 221447 George Trice Keller (132240) William   
1998-01-13 VA 200556 James Guy Beale (149600) William   
2013-10-29 WV 55634 Robert Benham Fish Jr. (152346) Elizabeth   
2019-10-11 TX 88893 Blas M. Uribe V (213365) William   
Burial:
Old Providence ARP Church (aka Stonewalled) Cemetery (C-0374329)
Location:
Spottswood / Augusta / VA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
552495
Grave Plot #:
Row 10, Plot 3
Grave GPS Coordinates:
37.961513 / -79.227066
Find A Grave Memorial #:
54045570
Marker Type:
Vertical Monument
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:
  • Grave Photos and GPS provided by Craig Batten, George Washington Chapter, VASSAR
  • Also known as Stonewalled Cemetery.this cemetery is the oldest of two cemeteries at Old Providence Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Located west of Old Providence Road (Rte 919) past the Old Stone Church.



Author: Robert B. Fish, Jr.
Robert McCormick was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1738 and died in Augusta County, Virginia, on 12 Oct 1818. He is buried in the cemetery of Old Providence Presbyterian Church, Augusta County, Virginia along with his wife, Martha Sanderson McCormick.

Robert McCormick served as a private in the Virginia Line during the Carolina Campaign under General Nathanial Greene. He fought in the Battle of Cowpens and was wounded in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. It was said that, as he was approaching the cover of a fence, a British Officer cried out, “Shoot that damned rebel.”

Robert McCormick was an elder in the Presbyterian Church. He held unwavering adherence to the Scottish piety of his forebears. Appalled by the hymns being sung in the local Presbyterian church, he founded a rival congregation faithful to the old ways.

The McCormick family is well known in American history. Robert’s grandson, Cyrus McCormick is credited with perfecting the invention of the mechanical reaper begun by his father, Robert McCormick, Jr.

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