Acord Family History
Submitted by: Susan Fahnstrom


CRONAMUS ACORD was born in Germany and came to the US, he married
BARBARA ACRE, who was born in Anderson Co in Tennessee.

They had a son named CORNELIUS ACORD born abt 1760 in Frederick. MD, he
married BARBARA EAKER Jan 29, 1784, he later married a second time to
MARY E HANCOCK, she was born 1778 in Anderson Co, Tennessee, CORNELIUS
died Nov 10,1839 and is buried in Roane Co, Tennessee.

CORNELIUS & BARBARA ACORD had a son named JOHN ACORD who was born Feb 18,1797 in Lincoln, NC, he died 1866.

JOHN ACORD married SARAH TURNER born July, 1819, she was the daughter of WILLIAM TURNER & SARAH DENNEY, JOHN & SARAH had five children:

CALVIN ACORD born Jan 22, 1825, he died in 1880 in Johnson Co, Arkansas.
CORNELIUS ACORD born Jan 22, 1825, (possibly a mistake or is actually the twin brother of CALVIN ACORD) died Oct 25, 1873 in Arkansas.
WILLIAM ACORD born 1827, he died Mar 18, 1864 in Johnson Co, Arkansas.
JOHN COLUMBUS ACORD born Jan 29, died April 10, 1898 in Texas.
FRANCES MARION ACORD born 1832, he died July 28, 1864 in Arkansas.

JOHN & SARAH'S son WILLIAM ACORD born 1827, married MARTHA CASEY born 1837 in Roane Co, Tennessee, she died in 1903, she was  the daughter of
TURNER & SARAH CASEY, MARTHA CASEY  and WILLIAM ACORD had a daughter named VICY JANE ACORD born Jan 6, 1857 at Friley Creek. Arkansas, VICY JANE ACORD married MILES RITCHIE born 1849, died 1917, he was the son of ISOM RITCHIE & MARTHA PATSY PATRICK, MILES is buried in YAle Cemetery, Arkansas.

VICY JANE ACORD  was living with her son ZED RITCHIE when she died in
1938, in Kuna, Idaho and is buried in the Kuna Cemetery there, MILES &
VICY RITCHIE'S daughter MARTHA JANE RITCHIE was born Oct 15, 1883 in
Yale, AR, she married JOHN HENRY HARRIS, in 1901 in Pettigrew, AR, he
was living at his daughter Claudia's house when he died in 1958 in Boise, Idaho and he is buried at Morris Hill Cemetery in Boise, Idaho, MARTHA JANE HARRIS died in 1968 in Boise, Idaho and is buried next to her husband JOHN HENRY HARRIS at Morris Hill in Boise, Idaho.


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