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Lafayette Monroe McCormick
Delaware County's first
rural mail carrier
Nick-Name (Cricket)
he was born in Connersville, Indiana on Nov15,1846 and came to Muncie with
his parents Dr. William Henry Harrison McCormick and Katherine Anne Drennen
when he was eight years old..He lead an active and useful life. Coming
from a family noteable for there musical talent. for Twenty-Five years
he played the Cornet and Trombone in the Muncie Band with his sisters and
brothers, and with the McCormick concert company.He met his wife Mary Emorillis
Leonard at a Street Dance and they were Married June 23rd 1870. When he
Married Mary Emorillis "Emma" the McCormick's accepted her, but considered
her outside of their Social Status. Her father was a Medicine Man and she
and her sisters-and mother traveled through-out Ohio and Indiana like Gypsies.
In the later years The McCormick's soon realized that she maintained stability
thru their family life.. She died in 1934.For twenty years he was a member
of De Ember Tribe #30, Order of Red Men, a popular Fraternal at that time.
His Political life was active with the democrat party and a long time member
as secretary of the gray club organized during Grover Cleveland's campaign.When
the United States Post Office Dept. established free rural delivery McCormick
was the first rural mail carrier in Deleware County -he had his own horse
& buggy. The McCormick's were clannish folks who did not mingle with
anyone except relatives. Most of them lived on the west side ff Muncie,Indiana
near Ball-State University. Lafayette died January 05, 1923 in Delaware
Co, and is buried in the Beech Grove Cemetery
Sent in by Kelly Runyon
Bragg,-
gg- granddaughter of
Lafayette Monroe McCormick
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