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Dr William Harrison McCord

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Dr William Harrison McCord

Birth
Marshall County, Tennessee, USA
Death
14 Jun 1896 (aged 57)
Eagleville, Rutherford County, Tennessee, USA
Burial
Eagleville, Rutherford County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
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Studied at Union University in Murfreesboro, graduating from the University of Louisiana. His graduate work was completed at the College of Surgeons in Philadelphia, a very prestigious school at that time. During the Civil War, he served in General Nathan Bedford Forrest's Company as a surgeon in the 13th Regiment Tennessee Cavalry.

On December 18, 1868 he married his first cousin, Sarah Macon Williams, (b.1845 d. 1890), the daughter of Chesley and Elizabeth Jordan Williams.

Five children were born to Dr. McCord and his wife Sarah; Elizabeth J. (b. 1870 d.1870), William Edward (b. 1871 d. 1944), John Harrison (Tip) (b. 1873 d. 1962), Emmett Allen (b. 1875 d. 1960), and Annie V. (b. 1880 d.1931)

-A Step Back in Time" By Bobbie Sue Shelton-Lona, Eagleville Times, March 2012
Studied at Union University in Murfreesboro, graduating from the University of Louisiana. His graduate work was completed at the College of Surgeons in Philadelphia, a very prestigious school at that time. During the Civil War, he served in General Nathan Bedford Forrest's Company as a surgeon in the 13th Regiment Tennessee Cavalry.

On December 18, 1868 he married his first cousin, Sarah Macon Williams, (b.1845 d. 1890), the daughter of Chesley and Elizabeth Jordan Williams.

Five children were born to Dr. McCord and his wife Sarah; Elizabeth J. (b. 1870 d.1870), William Edward (b. 1871 d. 1944), John Harrison (Tip) (b. 1873 d. 1962), Emmett Allen (b. 1875 d. 1960), and Annie V. (b. 1880 d.1931)

-A Step Back in Time" By Bobbie Sue Shelton-Lona, Eagleville Times, March 2012

Gravesite Details

Same marker with SM McCord



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