This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McCord, Burkenthal Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/2644 Message Board Post: Mrs. McCord, wife of J.A. McCord died at her home near Durham Firday, August 30, 1918, after an illness of about six months. Last spring she had a stroke of paralysis from which she never fully recovered. During the months that intervened between that and the time of her deat she suffered continually. Mra. McCord was born in Christian County Kentucky in the year 1868. She was fifty years, seven months and sixteen days old at the time of her death. She was married January 9, 1889. she was the mother of nine children, five of whom preceed her to that bettwe land. Of the four remaing one, Mrs. Burkenthal lives in San Antonio, Texas, the other three, Frank, Alice and Fred all in thier teens, are at home with their father. At the age of twlve years Mrs. McCord was converted and joined the Baptist church. She remained a devouted Christina throughout her entire life. She was a devoted wife and mother and the bereaved family may find consolation by knowing that although she has gone from them, her influence still ives and the sweet memory of the time she was with them will linger forever. Funeral services were conducted in the Methodist church of Durham in the presence of the large crowd which had assembled to pay their last respects to the boyd of Mrs. McCord and to join with the family in gried. Burial Fairview Cemetery, Durham, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. The Star joins with the many friends of the bereft family in extending to them heartfelt sympathy in their sorrow. (Cheyenne Star Sept 12, 1918)