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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. |
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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. |
Roxie McCord Stamps and her daughter Nila Ray Stamps Allen in 1952(?). Roxie was Henry and Jason McCords sister. She married Ed Stamps and lived near Bates at Kennyville. |
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Roxie Stamps in California visiting with her children and their families in the 1950's. All of her children had moved to the Bay area near San Francisco making the farm back in Bates a very lonely place for her. Just reading a letter from her to Catherine McCord Cook can make tears come to your eyes. |
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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