Helen D. McCord (1843-1920)

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Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 3/26/2022 at 17:01:47

Helen DeArmond (Hopkins) McCord
(June 22, 1843 – December 20, 1920)

Robert L. McCord was married September 3, 1867, at Granville, Illinois, the lady of his choice being Helen DeArmond Hopkins, a native of that town, where her parents, Joel and Eleanor (Harrison) Hopkins, were early settlers. The former was a native of Red Oak. Ohio, and his wife was born in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. When sixteen years of age he accompanied his parents on their removal to Granville, where his family located in 1834. He is still living on the old homestead, but his wife died in 1849.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. McCord have been born five children: Joel Hopkins, who is cashier of the bank at Early, Sac County, Iowa; James B., who is a medical missionary to the Zulu mission; Mary Eleanor, who became the wife of Rev. R. B. Larkin, and went with him as missionary to Turkey for two years, and died in Colorado in February 1900; Robert Leigh, who is an attorney in Sac City; and Archibald Wilson, who is assistant cashier of the Salem Bank of South Dakota.
Mr. McCord has voted with the Republican party, but he is a staunch Prohibitionist in principle. His life has been earnest and the greater part of his time and attention have been devoted to the holy calling [ministry] which he made his life work. His influence has ever been on the side of all movements calculated to promote the welfare of his fellow men and to cultivate their moral development. [Source – Biographical Record of Calhoun County, Iowa, by S. J. Clarke, 1902, p.262] [see also, lengthy biography of Robert L. McCord, from which this little part on his wife, Helen D. Hopkins, was included]