Duncan E. McCORMICK was the youngest son of John McCORMICK, 1783-1858 and of his wife, Mary McEACHERN, 1782-1858; he
married and lived all his life in Harleeville, later called Little Rock, Marion County, South Carolina.

Duncan E. McCORMICK, 1818-1891, "...was well known all over the [Marion] county. He held the office of Tax Collection and various other stations of a public character; he was
a good business man, and started out in life as a clerk in the store of Colonel Thomas HARLLEE, at old Harlleesville, which is now Little Rock; he afterwards taught school, and was one of the pioneers in business at what is now called Little Rock..."

Duncan E.McCORMICK, "...with Tristram B. WALTERS, bought some lots from Enoch J. MEEKINS, not far from the church and school house, which had been given [to] the public by Thomas HARLLEE, Sr., for church and school purposes; and they built on the lands they bought dwellings, storehouse and a large hotel building, and thus launched the town of Little Rock...they went to work and got the postoffice removed there, and the name changed from Harlleesville to Little Rock..."

Duncan E. McCORMICK, 1818-1891, "...always remained until his death a strictly temperate and moral man...".

Duncan E. McCORMICK, 1818-1891, "...first married Martha Beckwith, and raised a family of three sons and two
daughters...":

daughter, Mary McCORMICK, 'the eldest', md. John McGIRT, of Robeson County, North Carolina;

daughter, Flora McCORMICK, md. John Calhoun Hargrove, the son of Asa HARGAROVE; ..."he first moved to North Carolina, and then to Mississippi...";

Duncan E. McCORMICK, 1818-1891, "...had three sons, John, Philip and General (nick-name), all of whom were gallant soldiers of the Confederacy, and after the war all of them removed' to Texas..."

Duncan E. McCORMICK, 1818-1891, married second, "...Harriet [variant spelling: Ridgell, Ridgal] WALTERS, the widow of William WALTERS; she was the daughter of one RIDGELL, and in her marriage with William WALTERS had two daughters and one son. The eldest daughter, Bettie [WALTERS], married Daniel W. Alford, [of Dillon, S.C.]... The youngest daughter, Willie ([WALTERS] married R. A. BRUNSON...; Augustus J. WWALTERS, the son, married
Sallie, the daughter of Alfred EDINO;..."

In his second marriage, Duncan E. had one son and three daughters...":

son, Archibald P. McCORMICK, "...was a brilliant young man, was a lawyer and died soon after his admission to the bar..."

daughter, Georgianna McCORMICK, md. Duncan McLAURIN, one of Dillon's most prominent and progressive citizens--he was the first settler in the new town, was its first Postmaster, and on the organization of the town was its first Mayor or Intendant ; he owns three fine plantations ; one near the town of Dillon, one on the east side of Little Pee Dee, in Carmichael Township, and one above Little Rock, which includes the old William WALTERS homestead ; he is a large stockholder in the Dillon Tobacco Warehouse, in the Dillon Bank, oil mill and the new cotton factory. They had three children, two sons and one daughter;

daughter, Ada McCORMICK, twin sister of Ellen McCORMICK; md. W. Boon WHITE, of Forreston, Clarendon County, South Carolina;

daughter, Ellen McCORMICK, twin sister of Ada McCORMICK; she died when almost reaching adulthood;