James T. McCord Family NotebooK
James & Jane McCord Family Bible Page
Tombstone Of Sarah McCord & William McMurtrey
McCord Families Of America
Information on James McCord & Jane Scruggs has been obtained from correspondence, beginning in 1974,with Dorothy Dialogue of Sandy, Utah, a descendant of James and Mary Moore McCord, Mrs. Joetta Ross Dobbs of SaLina, Kansas, descendant of Hannah McCord and John Jinings, and Dorothy Woodroof of Haysville, Kansas, a descendant of William and Jane McMurtry McCord. Dorothy has a notebook Left by her grandfather's brother James T. McCord. It was in this notebook that this vital McCord information was found.
Sarah McCord married Wm.McMurtrey. The date from the bible given for Sarah McCord is the same date given for Sarah McMurtrey, If this is true, then William and Sarah McCord McMurtrey's eldest daughter, Jane, married Sarah's youngest brother, William.From the notebook, Left by James T. McCord of Splitlog, Missouri, James McCord was born 1739, in Stewartstown, Tryrone County, Ireland, died 4 November 1824, at Spring Creek, Overton County, Tennessee. He was Scotch-Irish and came with his father, Robert or Robin, to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was a Patriot of War of the Revolution and furnished sundries to North and South Carolina and Virginia. He moved to Wilkes County, North Carolina where he married Jane Scroggs(Scruggs) about 1765. After the death of Jane, James and some of his family moved to Overton County, Tennessee about 1789.
Joetta found a paper in Mary Emaline Jennings Ross's, (her grandmother’s), bible. This paper had family given names and dates of birth. It proved to be the names of the children of James and Jane McCord. Mary Emaline was the granddaughter of Hannah and John Jinings.
As to the Tombstone Section, the first stone is of William McMurtrey, the second is of his wife, Sarah McCord McMurtrey, the third is of their son-in-law William Tidwell, husband of their daughter Mary McMurtrey, the fourth is of their son William Martin McMurtrey
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