McCormick.--Died at his residence in Princeton, Ind., Tuesday morning, September 22, 1891, at 9 o'clock. Rev. P. B. McCormick, aged seventy years, seven months, and twenty-five days. Patterson B. McCormick was born January 28, 1821. He was the youngest of eleven children born to James and Jane McCormick. His early life was spent in his native State--Kentucky--where at the age of sixteen he professed faith in Christ and became a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. Shortly afterward he became a member of the Anderson Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian church as a candidate for the ministry. He was licensed to preach by the Logan Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and having moved to Indiana he was received, in April 1855, by letter into the Indiana Presbytery as a licensed preacher. While under the care of Logan Presbytery he was engaged quite a while as a colporteur for the American Tract Society. As a licensed preacher under the care of Indiana Presbytery he supplied Bethlehem congregation from 1857 to 1859. He was also supply for a while for New Hope congregation, Warrick county, Indiana. On June 28, 1861, he was set apart to the holy ministry by a commission of Indiana Presbytery consisting of Rev. Wm. McClesky. Thomas Walker, and Rev. J. E. Jenkins, and took charge of Bethlehem congregation which he faithfully served until his enlistment in the army in 1862. He served until the close of the war as a member of Co. H, Indiana Volunteers. While in the army he was stricken with a slight attack of paralysis but recovered; but shortly after his return home a second stroke left him without the use of his lower limbs and he was an invalid to the day of his death. On May 10, 1847, he was united in marriage by Rev. Joseph Penick to Mary J. Perry, of Russellville, Kentucky, who together with four grown children survives him.
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, October 22, 1891, page 239]

He is buried in the IOOF Cemetery in Princeton, Gibson County, Indiana.