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HUSBAND     Theron Baldwin MCCORD-3089

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Born: 18 Aug 1832             Place: Bond County, Illinois

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Father: James Burnett MCCORD-1324/386 Mother: Margaret Caroline

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WIFE        Ellen MCGRANNIS-6481

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1   Name: Sidney G. MCCORD-6482           Spouse:

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HUSBAND     John Davis MCCORD-3090

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Born:  4 Oct 1834             Place: Bond County, Illinois

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Father: James Burnett MCCORD-1324/386    Mother: Margaret Caroline

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WIFE        Elizabeth Aurelia BROWN-6483

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1   Name: William Blackburn MCCORD-6484        Spouse:

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2   Name: Arthur Bissell MCCORD-6485            Spouse:

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3   Name: Bertha Gertrude MCCORD-6486          Spouse:

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4   Name: Grace Isabell Step-daughter MCCORD-6487   Spouse:

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Family Group Record - 2072

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HUSBAND     Morris Foster MCCORD-3092

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Born: 29 Jun 1841             Place: Bond County, Illinois

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WIFE        Isabell COOLEY-6489

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1   Name: Estelle MCCORD-6490           Spouse:

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2   Name: Nellie MCCORD-6491            Spouse:

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3   Name: Mary Olive MCCORD-6492         Spouse:

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4   Name: Roscoe MCCORD-6493             Spouse:

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5   Name: Maud MCCORD-6494             Spouse:

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HUSBAND     Warren Corning SMITH-6495

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Born: 15 Jun 1832             Place: New Hampshire

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WIFE        Elizabeth Jane MCCORD-3093

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Born:  9 Sep 1843             Place: Bond County, Illinois

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1   Name: Henrietta SMITH-6496             Spouse:

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2   Name: Dewitt Clinton SMITH-6497         Spouse:

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3               Name: Maggie Idella SMITH-6498 Spouse: Timothy William

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4               Name: Lillie May SMITH-6499 Spouse: Frank Lincoln

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----  Born: 13 May 1867       Place: Marysville, Yuba County, CA           

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5   Name: Fanny Olive SMITH-6500         Spouse:

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James Burnett McCord was the first son of Robert McCord and his second wife Rebecca Johnson; he was born in Jackson County, Georgia 13 August 1806.  Source material on him and his family is compiled below.

From the unpublished Autobiography and Family Sketches by Truman O. Douglass and Maria G. Douglass, Grinnell, Iowa, pp.36-39:

Writing about his uncle's home in Limestone near Platteville (Grant County), Wisconsin, about 1850:  Uncle James B's house was the center of social attraction in the neighborhood.  His house was the largest in the community.  The living room, in which however there was always one bed, and sometimes two, was quite large; and the kitchen and dining room combined was large; and there were three bed rooms up­stairs.  The family, however, filled it when they were all at home, for there were William and Joseph and Leeper and Theron and John and Kimball and Morris and Eliza and Olive.  Morris Pleasant Foster, the seventh son, nicknamed "Dock", was about my age, though a little older.  He was something of a wag.  It was Deacon McCord's custom to give timely notice of a punishment.  One day for some misdemeanor he said to Morris, "Now Morris, prepare for a lickin'".  When the desig­nated hour arrived Morris appeared, looking stuffy and queer.  He had on a great coat.  The old gentleman (for that was the name the boys gave their father) said to him, "Morris, take off your coat, sir".  Morris demurred, but the old gentleman was inexorable and then he said, "Now Morris, take off your jacket, sir."  This he did very reluctantly, but he was obliged to do it, and lo, a sheepskin dropped out. "Morris, what did you do that for?" "Father, you told me to prepare for a lickin' and I have."  The old Deacon never laughed, but he always grinned, and the grin this morning was a little broader than usual, and he said, "A boy that is so smart as that can go free."  Morris builded better than he  knew.  Uncle James, though he affected rough ways with speech and behavior, was at heart a gentleman;  and he was on good terms of fellowship with his boys, though he did not want them to know it, and he was fond of young company.  So there were many gatherings at his house, at which young people from the village were often present.  Our games were sometimes boisterous, blind man's buff being the favorite.  And games of forfeit were popular.  But later we developed into charades and other plays in which the intellect was brought into service.  Really it was a fine bunch of young people at Limestone in the years of our residence thE.  For a time we had a literary society in our school house.  Its meetings, however, were mostly social functions; and spelling school in our neighborhood or in some other, and these were mostly for social purposes.  I do not remember a single solid couple, or a single marriage of the young people of Limestone during all the years of our residence there.   The social life of the adults took the form of neighborliness in borrowing

and lending, in frequent calls, in sending to the neighbors choice portions from the kitchen or pantry, in visits occupying a whole day, in quiltings, etc., and in caring for the sick.  A hired, trained nurse would have been counted an impertinence in that neighborhood.  A kinder and more neighborly community there could scarcely be.

I have already referred to the religious life of the community.  Al­most every house was a "house of prayer".  Nearly all the adults and many of the children belonged to the church in Platteville.  Our people, the McCords, the Patersons, the Robinsons, the Armstrongs, the Fairchilds, the Dixons, the Mitchells, and others were members at Platteville.  We had weekly prayer meetings in our school house and for some years held a Sunday School there Sunday afternoons.  Sabbath observance here was not quite so rigid as formerly.  Whistling on Sunday was discouraged, but not prohibited.  We might roam about the farm a little; father and mother would sometimes take a stroll across the fields and comment on the growing crops.  Almost every Sabbath afternoon toward evening, some of the neighbors would drop in.  Deacon McCord was almost sure to make us a visit sometime Sunday afternoon, and often the boys would come with their father and have a "sing".  The Deacon, like my mother, could sing almost anything that he had ever heard and there was but one hymn in the church hymn book which was without the music to which he could not adapt a tune.  The boys learned to sing by note and they had a tuning fork, at which the old Deacon turned up his nose.  He disdained such help in starting a tune, though I must report that he was sometimes obliged to back up and start over again, pitching his tune too low or too high, though usually he struck the key note at the first trial.  Those afternoon "sings" especially when Mary Etta Mears came in with her rich alto, and Elias with his splendid bass or his fiddle, and Clinton Mears with his clarinet, were memorable occasions and the Sabbath was a delight.  Sabbath morning, almost without exception, found us -- a wagon load of us -- at the services in the village; and on the way often we would fall in with other wagon loads of neighbors going to church.  In those days, often all the hitching posts about the church building were occupied.  So decided were the religious influences of the community, coupled with those of the Platteville church, that in the space of five years, five of us started out to prepare for the ministry.  David and Samuel Mitchell were of the number and Leeper and John McCord and myself.  The Mitchell boys went to Princeton and became Presbyterian preachers; the McCord boys went to Beloit College and to Lane Seminary.

Jerry McCord's notes on James Burnett:  established on a farm at Limestone a mile and half northwest of Platteville.  In a little shop he manufactured woodenware of various descriptions, Limestone Creek furnishing the water power.

Last will and testament of James B. McCord written 11 August 1874 and attested 22 September 1874 in Putnam County, Illinois.  Recorded Book 2, Page 570.

I, James B. McCord of Granville, Putnam Co. Illinois, a turner by trade make this my last will--

First -- It is my will that all just debts and funeral expenses be fully paid.

Secondly -- I give, devise & bequeath all my personal property, including shop, tools & all the appurtenances connected therewith, the horse & buggy & household furniture & all accounts, to my wife, Martha H. McCord.

Thirdly -- I will also that the said Martha H. McCord hold & use in that way which will be to her advantage the following described lot, piece or parcel of ground with the house that is upon it.

Said house & lot is situated in the town of Granville, in the County of Putnam & state of Illinois -- to wit:

The East half of the North part of Lot fourteen (14) in the North East Quarter of the South West Quarter of the North East Quarter of Section nine (9), Township thirty-two (32) North Range one (1) West of the Third Principal Meridian, bounded as follows, to wit:

Beginning one Rod West of North East Corner of the South West Quarter of said Section Nine (9) thence West ten (10) rods thence South eight (8) rods to the place of beginning; said lines to run parallel with the division lines of said Quarter Section.

Fourth -- It is my will that at the death of the said Martha H. McCord, the lot, piece or parcel of land herein described, with all the appurtenances thereon shall revert to my daughter Mary Olive McCord to hold or use & dispose of as she may wish.

Fifth -- It is my will that R. L. McCord of Toulon, Stark County, state of Illinois, a minister of the Gospel, be the executor of this my last will & testament.

In witness whereof I have signed & sealed & published & declared this instrument as my will at Granville, Putnam County, Illinois, this August eleventh (11) eighteen hundred & seventy-four (1874).

The said James B. McCord of said Granville, Illinois on said eleventh day of August 1874 signed & sealed this instrument, and published & declared this as his last will.   And we, at his request, & in his presence & in the presence of each other have hereunto written our names as subscribing witnesses :  William Quinn? Alanson? Whitaker

James Burnett McCord born 13 Aug 1806; died 23 Aug 1874 at Granville, Illinois.  Married 1826 in Madison County, Illinois, Margaret Caroline Robinson born 22 Aug 1805; died 7 April 1865.  2) married 15 Oct 1867 Martha Hopkins.  Source:  A Chapter of Hopkins Genealogy owned by Mrs. Ruth Peterson, 3110 Shirley Ct., Lincoln, Nebraska and another copy by Helen M. McCord, Box 104, Ames, Iowa, 50010.  These are nieces of Martha Hopkins.  There are Whittakers in Ames.  William Hopkins and Jane Willis were the parents of Martha Hopkins.

Martha Hopkins b. June 20, 1820 d. 24 Jun 1881.  When 29 years of age, Martha went to the home of her brother, Joel Willis Hopkins to mother his motherless little children and to assist him in the care of their invalid brother, Stephen Dawse Hopkins, for 13 years she gave without stint to these loved ones.  Then the second marriage of her brother, Joel Willis in 1862.

October 15, 1867, she married James B. McCord.  She lived in Granville seven years.  When her husband died in 1874, she went to Toulon, Illinois to make her home with her niece, Mrs. Mary H. Hopkins Wright.  She lived there seven years and died at Toulon June 24, 1881 and was buried at Granville, Illinois. 

The above records were written up by Hazel and Gerald McCord of Lincoln, Nebraska, two of the most diligent McCord researchers.  The following was also recorded by them in 1978.

Marriage Records in Putnam County, Illinois:

Neman (Ninian) A. McCord and Susan E. Child, 25 Sep 1861

James B. McCord and Martha Hopkins, 15 Oct 1867

R. S. (sic) McCord and Helen Hopkins, 1867

Wm. R. McCord and Sarah A. Laughlen, 1 Jun 1852

Archie McCord and Carrie McCord, Oct 1899

Oran C. McCord and Mary A. Hawthorne, 8 Apr 1851

Cyrus H. Short and Mary E. Hartenbower, 29 May 1851 by John P. Hayes

Nathaniel Whitaker married Harriet Olive McCord, 10 Jul 1851, Rufus

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Prior M. Short - Osen 1844

William H. Short - Smith 1848

Cymes (sic) Short - Hartenbower - 1851

John F. Short - Hutton 1853

John F. Short - Hutton 1865

Benjamin Whitaker - Nancy Jane Peterson 1859

Samuel A. Dixon - Ruth Whitaker 18 Apr 1839

David W. Dixon - Margaret Whitson 14 Jan 1841

James Dixon - Gene Myers 25 Jan 1849

Wm. Dixon - Ellen Phillips 27 Mar 1861

Charles A. Dixon - Nancy A. Snyder 22 Mar 1874

David M. Stewart, guardian for Martha E. Stewart, fees, Page 2

Isaac W. Stewart, (by Sarah Stewart) Page 12

Mary Jane Stewart, died, settlement of estate, Page 16

Dennis M. Alexander m. Caroline B. McCord, 5 Jan 1856

From Clare McKenzie, "Congregational Church, Toulon, Illinois, 1846-1921:  Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society.  Springfield, Illinois: Vol.13, April 1920, pp. 504-36.

Rev. R. L. McCord was elected pastor August 3, 1867.  It is to his memory and that of his brother-in-law, Judge W. W. Wright, of beloved memory in this Church, a nephew of the first pastor, Rev. S. G. Wright, that the north window in the main audience room is dedicated by the McCord and Wright families.

Rev. McCord was "a man gentle, sympathetic, benignant, and gracious, surcharged with pastoral feeling" of whom one of his parishioners said, "He earned his salary by the way he met people on the street."

It was during his pastorate that Rev. Willis C. Dewey, who became a member of this Church in 1863, was examined and ordained here for the work of a foreign missionary and sent to Turkey....

Rev. McCord, it was also, who gave the right hand of fellowship to that most distinguished son of this Church, Dr. Harry P. Dewey, of Minneapolis, whose name is named throughout this country wherever Congregationalism is known.

After a long pastorate of nearly eleven years, Rev. McCord presented his resignation to take effect April 15, 1878, and Rev. J. C. Myers succeeded him.

November 29, 1879, the Church observed its thirty-third anniversary with a reunion and supper.  On this occasion Rev. McCord was present and read an interesting historical sketch of the Church and its work during his pastorate and reminiscences were given by different members. 

(A Rev. J. H. Dixon was a minister in the church from July 1, 1886 to June 25, 1892 and his son Rev. Will Dixon became a minister in other Congregational churches.  It would be interesting to know whether these Dixons are related to those who moved to Grant County, Wisconsin from Bond County, Illinois.)

In recording missionaries of the church:  the family of former pastor, Rev. McCord, also has two such representatives, Dr. James McCord, who spent much of his boyhood here, for many years in the medical mission work in Africa, and Miss Mamie McCord, who married a missionary, Mr. Larkin, and gave her life to this field of service..

The following biography of Robert L.(Leeper) McCord is taken from the History of Calhoun County, Iowa published in 1902, pages 262-268 and said to have a picture of Robert and his wife, probably on pages 263-266.

Robert L. McCord for many years devoted his life to the ministry, but is now giving his energy to agricultural pursuits in Calhoun county, making his home in Lake City.  He was born in Bond County, Illinois, in what was then the town of Bethel, but is now Reno, his birth occurring August 7, 1830.  His father, James B. McCord, was born in Franklin county, Georgia, August 15, 1806, and the ancestry of the family can be traced to the north of Ireland, whence the great-grand-father (should be great-great-great-grandfather TBH) of our subject came to the new world.  Robert McCord, the grandfather, was probably a native of Pennsylvania (should be Virginia TBH), where different members of the family followed the hatting trade in the city of Pittsburg.  In early life, however, he went south passing through Virginia into Georgia. 

About 1820 he removed to Illinois, taking up his abode in Bond County, when his son James was a youth of fourteen years.  For his first wife the grandfather, Robert McCord, married Hannah (Fanny TBH) Black, and after her death he wedded Rebecca Johnston.  The following children were of the first union: Matilda, who became Mrs. Dixon; Mrs Fidelis Leeper; Mrs. Ellen Short; Mrs. Nancy White; William and John, who remained in Columbia, Tennessee, where the family resided for about eleven years before coming to Illinois; Sarah, who became Mrs. Mears; Robert, who resided in Hillsboro, Illinois; Mrs. Fanny Blizzard; and Mrs. Mary Mears.  Of the second marriage nine children were born, as follows:  James B.; Lucinda; Mrs. Elizabeth Douglas; Annademy, who married Rev. Robert Stewart, a prominent minister of southern Illinois; Gideon Blackburn; Mrs. Jane Douglas; David T.; one who died in infancy; and Louisa, who died aged twenty -- making nineteen children in the family altogether.  The father was a soldier in the Black Hawk war and was actively identified with the early associations which shaped the pioneer history of Illinois.  Throughout his entire life he followed farming, and was also a local minister of the Presbyterian church.  He died in 1841 in Bond county, Illinois, when eighty-one years of age.  His second wife passed away while in that locality about 1835.

James B. McCord, the father of our subject, accompnied his parents to Tennessee and thence to Illinois.  He married Miss Margaret C. Robinson, who was born in Lincoln county, North Carolina, August 22, 1805.  In 1845 he removed with his family from Bond county to Platteville, Wisconsin, where he resided until 1866, when he went to Granville, where he was a cabinetmaker and turner, and manufactured grain cradles.  At the time of his removal to Wisonsin he found there a wild pioneer region, and took an active part in its development and progress.  The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. James B. McCord, which was celebrated in Edwardsville (Madison County), Illinois, March 2, 1826, was blessed with nine children, namely William R., who was born March 5, 1827, and resides in Chicago; Joseph B., who was born September 26, 1828, and died May 5, 1873; Robert L., of this review; Theron Baldwin, who was born August 18, 1832, and is now deceased; John D., who was born October 4, 1834, and is a pastor of a Congregational church in Chicago; Edwin D., who was born January 19, 1837, and is living in San Francisco; Morris F., who was born June 29, 1841, and resides in La Prairie, Illinois; Eliza Jane, who was born September 7, 1843, and is the wife of Warren C. Smith of Colusa, California; and Mary Olive, who was born in Wisconsin, January 14, 1849, and is principal of one of the Austin schools of Chicago.  The father of this family died in Granville, Illinois, August 23, 1874, while the mother passed away in Wisconsin, April 27, 1865.  Mr. James B. McCord married for his second wife Miss Martha Hopkins, the marriage being celebrated October 15, 1867.

Robert L. McCord spent the first fourteen years of his life in Illinois, where he attended the common schools and through the summer months followed farming.  After the removal of the family to Wisconsin he became a student in the academy at Platteville, where he spent two years.  He was also a student in Beloit College for a year and for three years in the Illinois College at Jacksonville, Illinois, where he was graduated in 1856, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.  On the expiration of that period he matriculated in the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and for two years was a student in Lane Seminary at Walnut Hills, now Cincinnati, Ohio, where he won the degree of Bachelor of Divinity in 1859, when he was licensed to preach the gospel.

Mr. McCord first located at Lincoln (Logan County), Illinois, where he was pastor of a Congregational church for five years.  After that he was pastor of the Congregational church at Toulon (Stark County), Illinois, until 1878, after which he spent four years in New Windsor, Illinois, and a similar period in Lyonsville, Illinois.  His next pastorate was in Sheffield, Illinois where he remained for six years.  In 1890 he came to Iowa and labored with the churches at Lake View and at Silver Creek for two or three years, as supply, but since that time he has retired from the ministry, although his interest in the church and its progress and upbuilding has never abated.  On March 1, 1892, he took up his abode at Lake City, and since that time he has given his attention to the improvement of his farm lands.  He has an entire section divided into two farm lots, near Lake City.

Mr. McCord was married September 3, 1867, at Granville, Illinois, the lady of his choice being Helen De Armond 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 stanch Prohibitionist in principle.  His life has been earnest and the greater part of his time and attention have been devoted to the holy calling 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.