Mary (Polly) Pauline McCORMACK

  General Notes:

known as Mary Woodcock Moved to Smith County, Tennessee, by 1830.

Bettly Ravenholt: Mary McCormack, daughter of William and Judith McCormack, is the ancestor of most of the descendants of William and Judith McCormack in Smith County. She came to Smith County with her young son Tilman McCormack, born May 23, 1825, in Virginia. Her only other known child, a daughter Jane McCormack, was born in Tennessee in about 1832. There is no record yet found that Mary McCormack ever married although she used the name Mary Woodcock for some years. For twenty years before the time of her death (January 21, 1882, in Smith County), however, she was again called Mary McCormack.

Carrie McCormack Butler told Betty Butler Ravenholt, her gandmother, that Miss McCormack came "down the river on a boat according to the old folks." She also said that "the old folds" always speculated that Miss McCormack had never been married since she arrived in Smith County without a husband but with a child. Themla Butler McLain, aunt of Betty Butler Ravenholt, said that she had always heard that Miss McCormack came to Tennessee in a wagon with her children. Miss McCormck settled on land on Buffalo Creek, so called because nearby was a salt lick wher lots of buffalo came.

These McCormacks pronounced their name "McCommack."

Mary married Charlie Woodcock? on an unknown date in Probably Not Married.