McCORMICK CEMETERY
Wabash Township , Tippecanoe County , Indiana
Located in West Lafayette , IN at the intersection of Stadium Avenue and
  McCormick Road just north of Westwood (home of the President of Purdue University ).

McCormick Family Marker

  Philip McCormick was one of the original settlers in  Wabash Township arriving with his wife and family in 1824.
Philip Caster and his family also arrived the same year. In 1829 when the township was organized and officials elected
  McCormick who became Justice of the Peace and Martin Murphy served as one of the townships Constables.
  Sarah (McCormick) Young and husband William W. Young are buried here too.
 

From the Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, 1888, pp. 463-464.

PHILLIP and MARY (CRAIN) McCORMICK.   Philip was born in the year 1792, and was married in Greene County, Ohio,
 where he resided until 1826. In that year he came to Tippecanoe County, Indiana, and settled on section 24, Wabash Township,
 where he entered 200 acres of land from the Government. He had visited the county in the year 1825, and assisted in building the 
first hewed log house where Lafayette now stands. He added to his original tract of land until he had 720 acres, which by years of toil
 and persevering energy he improved and brought under fine cultivation, this land being as good as could be found in Wabash Township. 
He died an honored and respected citizen February 6, 1855, his widow surviving him until January 1865. They were the parents
 of six children, of whom three yet survive; JAMES, MRS. SARAH A. YOUNG and MRS. RACHEL RUSSELL, . MATILDA  J,.
 ELIZABETH and ANDREW J. are deceased.

Four known Civil War veterans are buried in McCormick Cemetery. They are,
William W. Young, Eli Critser, James Meek, and J. M. Caster.

Our thanks go out to Steven Harding for a great effort to help share and preserve the information 
of this Tippecanoe County Pioneer Cemetery.   And to the Township Trustee for allowing him to
 pursue this effort. Steven worked on his Eagle badge by mapping, cleaning and recording this
 cemetery.  And he and his group did an excellent job.

HIS ALPHABETICAL LISTING 

Recorded by Steven Harding of Boy Scout Troop 335 as an Eagle Scout Project in 2003 2004 for the
 Tippecanoe County Cemetery Restoration Group.  Many corrections have been made to the stone readings.

   All tombstone photos are listed on Find_A_Grave.
please let us know of other veterans.

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Photos by L.A. Clugh © 2004
Tippecanoe County INPCRP