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Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 11:35:59 -0400
From: "James L. Carmack" <jamesl(a)tir.com>
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To: Dale Carmack <dcarmack(a)us.hsanet.net>
Subject: roll call
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Hi Dale
Regarding my roll call message on your web page:
I have been inactive on the mailing list for some time. The reason is
as follows. I had been unable to trace my line back beyond William and
Sarah of Henry County TN. Looking over my information, I noticed that
William was listed as Cormack. Everyone associated with researching our
line assumed that this was just a variation of Carmack. I wondered if
it might be that more information might be listed under Cormack prior to
1830. I made contact with a Kathy Cormack of Texas. She has done
extensive research on the Cormack family, and in fact has just published
a book which I am in the process of ordering. With the information I
received from her and from the Court Records of Henry Co. pertaining to
the estate of John Cormack, that my line is decended from William
Cormack b. bef. 1749, of Wake Co. NC. In fact over 30 years, NC
documents refer to him variously as McCormack and Cormack. My
gggrandfather, William, was his youngest son. There were five
children. William b. 1785, married Sarah Green. My ggrandfather was
Green L. Carmack b.1837. He changed the spelling from Cormack to
Carmack, and of course his decendants carry that name. There remains a
question. According to census records from Henry Co. Green was born in
1837. He lived with William and Sarah though the 1850 Census and was
married for the first time in 1859. He would have been born when Sarah
was 46. That is not impossible, I suppose, but unusual and raises
questions about the possibility that he was brought into the household
due to unknown circumstances. If that were the case, his backgound
would remain a mystery. At any rate, would it be proper, knowing now
that our line is Cormack rather that Carmack before the mid 1800's, to
post a new role call entry on your site. There may be Carmacks out
there who could benefit from the information. We would have to the
scrap the present entry since the early info is wrong. The corrected
data follows:
William Cormack b. 1749 Wake Co. NC. William Cormack b. 1785 NC. Green
Lee Carmack b. 1837 Henry Co. TN. James Ruben Carmack b. 1872 Henry
Co.(?)TN, d. 1910 Dunklin Co. MO. James Andrew Carmack b.1910 Dunklin
Co. TN, d.1984, Genessee Co. MI. James L. Carmack b.1935, Genessee Co.
MI. Robert James Carmack .1964, Genessee Co. MI.
Another interesting point: When researching the Cormacks of NC, I found
that there were Cormacks in Craven County NC in 1790 with the same first
names as the Carmacks of Craven County NC. How could that be? Kathy
Cormack had checked this out using land records and concluded that there
were no Cormacks in Craven County in 1790. That an early transposition
had caused the error that is still on going. Our line was only in Wake
Co. NC.
Mrs Agnes Jones had told me in earlier e-mail that a number of people
had tried to trace the Carmacks of Henry County without results. The
reason is now clear. They were Cormacks of another line.
We had made contact with my ggrandmother's family (Claxton) who still
reside in Henry Co. She has a Carmack Bible someone had given her. I
posted the family page on the list and thought it definitely tied our
line to the early Carmacks. It turned out to be pertaining to the
Carmacks of Hawkins County, and did not pertain to us at all. It points
out the need to check and double check your information all the time.
Kathy Cormack has stated that a John Cormack might be the father of
William Cormack b. 1749 Wake Co.NC. She has not been able to verify
this. I have been reading Dr.Peckham's Book to try and determine if
there were any connections between the Carmacks and Cormacks in the
earliest days of the colonies. I have not found any connections, but
among the e-mail from the list I have found a number of incidents of
early spellings of the name Carmack as Cormack. Might there be a
connection, and if so can anyone elaborate on it?
Thanks Dale,
Jim Carmack
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