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| Catherine McCord on her 3 wheel pusher and Victor Emanuel McCord with his rocking horse at Bates in 1922. Emanuel died when he was 6 years old. His rocking horse was in the family until it disappeared in 1942. | Henry J. McCord II and Friend Colonel Hawkins(?) in about 1914. Henry McCord married Clara Bethel at Bates. Their four children who grew up at Bates were Catherine, Byron, Jerry and Eddie Lee. Eddie is a Minister living in Mount Ida, Arkansas. | Henry J. McCord II with his step-father Charles Hart. Charley Hart worked in the coal mining business for many years, serving as a Officer of the Coal Mine Workers Union. He was a very nice and very smart man, sharp right up until his last days. In the McCord family he was Grandpa Hart and had lived with Henry and Clara McCord up until the death of Henry. | |||||||||||||||||
| The Advance Reporter 15 December 1923 Bates Breezes Manuel, the six year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry McCord, died Saturday night and was buried Sunday at the Gipson cemetery. Three M.D.'s attended him and he suffered about three weeks with a complication of diseases. |
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| The Advance Reporter 10 January 1924 Obituary Manuel McCord, the six year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry McCord died December 15. The little fellow was a regular attendant at Sunday school and had entered the primary department of the public school. Manuel was a bright student in both Sunday and public school and is greatly missed by his teachers and playmates in both schools. So in the behalf of the teachers and members of the family the entire community extends its sympathy to this little fellow's parents and we say to them "weep not for Manuel for he, like Jesus, has gone to prepare a place for them." A friend of the bereaved. |
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| Catherine and Byron McCord with a friend. Byron "Barney" is sitting on the same rocking horse as seen in the above photo, and the same horse became Jimmy Cooks when he was small in 1941. Note Henry McCord's car in the background. | Jason McCord the brother of Henry J. McCord. He worked for the Kansas City Southern Railroad for many years. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Jason McCord in the mid-1930's. Shortly after this photo was taken he died as the result of an accident on the railroad in Texarkana. He was married to a woman from near Poteau, Oklahoma but they apparently never had any children. | Henry McCords work pass to his job at a ship yard in San Diego, California at the beginning of World War II. He and his wife Clara with their son Eddie moved to San Diego to work even though Henry had been in poor health back in Bates. They hadn't been there but a short time when one morning as Henry started down the street heading for work he passed out with a stroke from which he died shortly thereafter. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Grandma Mary Jane McCord Hart and Grandpa Charlie Hart with young boy Henry Stamps. Charlie Hart married Mary Jane McCord in about 1910 in Poteau, Oklahoma and moved to Bates. Henry Junius McCord her first husband died in 1894. | Manuel McCord when about three or four years old. See his obituary above. Mama Cord (Clara McCord) always said he was like a little angle; one of the nicest, well mannered and smartest lttle boys you would find anywhere. | ||||||||||||||||||