Bethiah Case Sex: Female

Birth Date	1795 KY
Death Date	1874 JAN 28 Arcadia IN
Father	Jacob Case	Born: 1750	Died: 1823
Mother	Dorcas Gelaspie	Born: 1760	Died: 1830 SEP

Bethiah Case
Notes:

Bethiah Case, and they had a family of eight children, their twin daughters, Tabitha and Lavina, celebrating their fourth birthday the day after the family arrived at Indianapolis. After her husbandâ€™s death Mrs. Bethiah McCormack married a Mr. King, by whom she had four childdren, and he pre-deceased her. She continued to live near the bluffs until after the close of the Civil war, when she moved to Arcadia, Ind., to live with her twin daughters until her death, in 1879. and John J McCormick

Notes:

Bethia McCormick is remembered well by the younger members of the family as the champion story teller of the McCormicks. She used to sit by the hour and tell of the hardships of the early pioneers and their struggles in making homes, also the many troubles the white settlers had with the Indians. There are many people who have heard from her own lips the story of the removal to the "New Purchase" as she told it, and she always placed particular emphasis upon the fact that she was the first white woman to tread its soil.

Spouse:

John King Sex: Male

Birth Date

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Spouse 2:

John W Mccormick Sex: Male

Birth Date	1792 SEP 15	Birth Place	Bedford Co, PA
Death Date	1825 AUG 25	Death Place	Indianapolis, Marion Co, IN
Father	John Wesley Mccormick	Born:	Died:
Mother	Catherine Anne Drennan	Born:	Died:

John W Mccormick Notes:	John McCormick came from Hamilton, Ohio with his two brothers and their families. They became the first European settlers of Indianapolis. John McCormick and his brother built a log cabin on the east bank of the White River in 1820. He lived there with his wife and eight children. Mr. McCormick was one of the first three county commissioners of Marion County. It was in his home that Indianapolis was chosen as Indianas state capital. The engineer who laid out the plans for Indianapolis stayed with Mr. McCormick to do his work. John McCormick died in 1824. There are relatives of Mr. McCormick in Indiana today. McCormicks Rock commemorates the site of John McCormicks cabin as the first settler of Indianapolis on the east bank of the Whiter River located in White River State Park.
Individual Notes:	On February 16, 1820, the McCormick families decided to strike out for a new site Westward, so John, Bethia, and their seven children (Jacob, Katherine, John Wesley, Lavina and Tabitha (4- year old twins), William Henry Harrison (20 months), and Mary Ann (4 months)) all piled into the wagon. Johnâ€™s two brothers, Samuel (who married Bethias sister, Elizabeth Case) and James, and nine to twelve other employed men, went along with them on the journey. They cut through the virgin forest, traveling by a Conestoga wagon drawn by oxen. They started their journey in February, so they placed the wagon on sled runners for winter travel. Though the distance was only about sixty miles, the journey took them eight days because they had to blaze the trail. They arrived on the banks of the White River near Fall Creek, on February 26, 1820. White River was very high at this time, so John decided not to attempt fording it, but to stop and make camp on the east bank, near where the old National Bridge was afterward erected. Since there was plenty of fish and game for food, they decided to permanently settle at this spot.
More Notes:	John, James and Samuel McCormick built the first house in what is now the capitol of Indiana, settling here in 1820.

Children

Birth Death

Mother

Spouse

Grand Children

b.1811
d.

b.1812
d.

b.1815
d.

b.1816
d.

1 Issac Martz

2 William M Martz b.1837

3 Nicholas Martz b.1838

4 Mary C Martz b.1840

5 Eliza Ann Martz b.1842

6 Cornelius Martz b.1844

7 Sarah B Martz b.1844

8 James M Martz b.1845

9 Henry C Martz b.1847

10 Emeline Martz b.1848

11 Sarah Emma Martz b.1848

12 Charles W Martz b.1849

13 Peter Martz b.1851

14 John Martz b.1852

15 Amanda Bithiah Martz b.1853

16 Moses C Martz b.1857

Lavina McCormick

b.1816 FEB 27
d.

John W Mccormick

Issac Martz

William Henry Harrison McCormick

b.1818 Connorsville IN
d.1884 DEC 23

John W Mccormick

Katherine Anne Drennen

1 Margaret Ann McCormick b.1840

2 Samuel Jefferson McCormick b.1842

3 Lafayette Monroe McCormick b.1846

William Clarance McCormick b.1872

Thomas Kirby McCormick b.1874

George Elliot McCormick b.1880

Lotus Lily McCormick

Suzie Maude McCormick b.1883

? Losh

Norma Sue Losh

Milton James McCormick b.1889

Glen Eugine McCormick b.1913

Edith Marguerite McCormick b.1916

Milton Ellsworth McCormick b.1917

Mary Evelyn McCormick b.1920

Donna Lucinda McCormick b.1922

Lonston Lafeyette McCormick b.1925

Betty Lonelle McCormick b.1930

James McCormick b.1933

Patsy Ann McCormick b.1935

4 Katherine McCormick b.1849

5 William Mortimer McCormick b.1851

6 Francis Helen McCormick b.1855

Mary Ann McCormick

b.1819 NOV 16
d.

John W Mccormick

James Hawkins

1 John Selman Hawkins b.1838

2 Elizabeth Margaret Hawkins b.1840

3 Nancy Minerva Hawkins b.1843

4 Eliza Matilda Hawkins b.1844

John Vernon Planck

Bessie Marie Planck

James Frederick Plank

Grace Fay Plank

Martha Pearl Plank

Francis Monroe Planque

William Plank

Anna Ola Plank

Mary Elizabeth Plank b.1864

James Bruce Plank b.1874

5 William L. Hawkins b.1848

6 Conrad Sailors Hawkins b.1848

7 Milton Thomas Hawkins b.1850

Eliza Ann McCormick

b.1821
d.

John W Mccormick

Hiram Gardner

Elizabeth Jane Mccormick

b.1826
d.

John W Mccormick

Ancestors Chart

Parents 2	4 persons	8 persons	16 persons	32 persons	64 persons	128 persons	256 persons	512 persons	1024 persons	-
Jacob Case DAR # A129459 b.1750 d.1823 See Notes	William Case b.1716 Southold, Suffolk County, Province of New York	Ichobod Case b.1688 Southold, Suffolk County, Province of New York Colony d.1762	Theophilus Case b.1661 Southold, Long Island d.1716	Henry Case Jr b.1632 Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom d.1665	Of The Dorset WIlliam Soloman Case b.1591 Aylesham, Kent, England d.1635 See Notes	of Great Fransham William Case b.1560 Broadland District, Aylsham, Norfolk, England d.1627	Richard Case of Necton b.1532 Chesham, Buckinghamshire d.1586
								Jacob Case DAR # A129459 b.1750 d.1823 See Notes
							Jacob Case DAR # A129459 b.1750 d.1823 See Notes
						Jacob Case DAR # A129459 b.1750 d.1823 See Notes
					Ruth James b.1595 d.1663	REV Thomas James b.1585 See Notes
							Ruth James b.1595 d.1663
						Ruth James b.1595 d.1663
				Ruth James b.1595 d.1663


	Mary Osman b.1718 d.1802

Parents 2	4 persons	8 persons	16 persons	32 persons	64 persons	128 persons	256 persons	512 persons	1024-persons	-
Dorcas Gelaspie b.1760 d.1830 See Notes	John Gillespy b.1736 d.1790 See Notes	John Gillespie b.1720 See Notes

		Isobel Hill b.1720

	Isable Smith b.1739 d.1795 See Notes	James Smith b.1715 See Notes

		Janet Hill b.1715 See Notes	Andrew Hill b.1685 See Notes	Andrew Hill b.1660 See Notes

				Isabell Collier b.1664 See Notes

			Isable Clark b.1689 See Notes
				Isable Clark b.1689 See Notes
2 persons	4 persons	8 persons	16 persons	32 persons	64 Persons	128 persons	256 persons	512 persons	1024 persons	-

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John J. McCormick Jr. and his wife Bethiah
John J. McCormick Jr. and his wife Bethiah, built perhaps the first house in what is now Indianapolis in February of 1820 at a spot which is now the east end of the Washington Street bridge over the White River.

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