Carl Edwards with his wife Katherine. (Getty). Katherine Downey is the wife of NASCAR driver Carl Edwards, and the couple have now been together for nine years. Downey may not just be one of the smartest and busiest wives in just the NASCAR world, but in the entire professional sports world as well.
Town of McCormick. McCormick County and its county seat, the town of McCormick, were named for inventor Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). The county was formed in 1916 from parts of Edgefield, Abbeville, and Greenwood counties. This area was settled in the mid-eighteenth century by Scotch-Irish, French Huguenot, and German farmers.
Few people changed American agriculture more than Cyrus McCormick. His invention, the McCormick 'Virginia' reaper, revolutionized farming by combining many steps involved in harvesting crops into one machine.McCormick's reaper could cut more wheat in a day than a half-dozen farmhands.yrus McCormick's farm. Visit Cyrus McCormick's Virginia farm in Steeles Tavern, Va., which is a National Historic Landmark. A grist mill and a blacksmith shop-as well as a life-sized replica of the original reaper and other farm equipment-are on display.