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Adam McCormick
(1855 - 1892)
The Sullivan Review (Sullivan County, Pennsylvania), March 3, 1892
Adam McCormick, aged 38 years, died very suddenly on Thursday last at the residence of Wm. McCarty in Albany Township.
At the dinner table he complained of not feeling well and went to the barn. Following him out in a few minutes he was found on the floor, dying, and in a short time he had breathed his last.
The funeral was set for Saturday afternoon, but in the morning the altered and life like appearance of the remains gave rise to the hope that life was not extinct. A doctor was hastily summoned, who applied the usual tests and pronounced life extinct. The funeral was then held at St. Basil�s in this place in the afternoon.
Deceased had been in very poor health for several years. He was married and all of his nearer relatives are living in the west.1 He had been suffering with consumption for some years. He was a member of St. Patrick�s T.A.B. Society,2 which attended the funeral in regalia.
1 Several of Adams siblings, including Mary, wife of Edwin E. DeCoursey, are believed to have been living in Colorado during this time.
2 TAB Society stands for Total Abstinence and Benevolent Society, a Catholic society advocating abstinence from alcohol.
