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http://www.acord.larkcom.org/:
JOHN COLUMBUS ACORD [1616] was born 4 April 1866 in Friley, Johnson County, Arkansas. He married IDA ELLEN HEATH on 23 December 1888 in Gibtown, Jack County, Texas. She was born 16 September 1873 in Gibtown, Jack County, Texas, the daughter of ROBERT MONROE HEATH and MARTHA ANN FORD. John's brother, Francis Marion Acord married Ida's sister, Mary Ann Heath and John's sister Martha Ann Acord married Ida's brother Henry William Heath, all in Gibtown, Texas. John and Ida moved to Indian Territory, Oklahoma in a covered wagon (about 125 miles) when their first child Edna was a baby. They settled near the present town of Marlow. His farm contained 200 acres where the town of Bray, on Highway 29 is now located. He usually employed 2 or 3 hired hands, besides his own sons to till and harvest his crop. In 1889 he was licensed to preach and in was ordained as a Baptist Minister by the Corinth Church in Marlow. He preached in Brush Arbors up and down the Red River and in hundreds of country churches. He was known as the "Marrying Parson" and numbered the couples he had united as more than 500. In many families he married the third generation. A biographical sketch was printed in the Daily Oklahoman Newspaper 9 March 1944. In 1820 he retired from farm work and engaged in several professions, among them being owner and operator of Acord Cafe, a rooming house and two garages in Marlow. Many times a couple would enter the Acord Cafe, requesting Rev. Acord to marry them. Edna, his daughter and Inez, his granddaughter, would sign as witnesses to the ceremony. In 1827 his voice failed causing him to retire from the pulpit. He died 18 April 1947 in Gibtown, Jack County, Texas and died 23 February 1959 in Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma. They are both buried in Marlow Cemetery, Stephens County, Texas.
The Daily Oklahoman Newspaper, 9 March 1947
Reverend Acord started his ministerial and marrying career in 1899. His 500 plus marriages have turned out remarkably well and his figures show very few knots he tied have come into the divorce courts. His own and three other communities invited him to preach regularly. Every Saturday night, Sunday morning and Sunday night, he talked from the pulpit in one of his four churches. The congregations numbered from 50 to 200 persons. He was paid with a sack of potatoes, a sack of onions, or a big fat hen. Some of his Brush-Arbor services took him on a 20 mile trip, a full day's travel in those days. At night, after his family had retired, Rev. Acord studied his Bible by the light of a kerosene lamp. Friday night, he would change into his best clothes, kiss his wife and children good-bye, and drive away. After Sunday night services he drove back to his farm and his family. Once a month he held services in his own community. On these Sundays, it was usual for 20 to 30 persons to have dinner at his farm house. Mrs. Acord often smiled as she recalled baking 200 to 300 biscuits for Sunday dinner. Once Rev. Acord baptized 50 persons in a tank near Bray, the group including his son, his son-in-law, and granddaughter, Inez Barnett. After 25 years of service, his voice failed him and forced his retirement in 1927. He retired from his farm work in 1920 and moved into Marlow where he engaged in several businesses, among them being owner and operator of Acord Café, a rooming house, and two garages. Reverend Acord is survived by his wife and 7 of their 12 children.
Children of JOHN ACORD and IDA HEATH are:
EDNA MAE ACORD, b. 12 Oct 1889, Gibtown, Jack County, Texas; d. 30 Sep 1936.
WALTER MONROE ACORD, b. 17 Apr 1892, Indian Territory, Oklahoma; d. 20 May 1966, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma; m. 19 September 1919, Medford, Grant County, Oklahoma to ELSIE SNOOK MILNER, b. 31 May 1900, Indian Territory, Oklahoma; d. 24 May 1997 in Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma.
CLAYTON DAVID ACORD, b. 04 June 1894, Texas; d. 29 June 1942; m. MARTHA RAE [last name unknown], Abt. 1918, Indian Territory, Oklahoma; b. Abt. 1897, Indian Territory, Oklahoma. Clayton is a veteran of World War I.
MYRTLE TENNESSEE ACORD, b. 12 Jul 1896, Indian Territory, Oklahoma; d. 07 Dec 1945.
MARTHA ANN ACORD, b. 19 Jul 1898, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma; d. November 1981, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma; m. ARTHUR LEE BROCK, b 22 February 1885, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma, d. 1 January 1940, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma.
JOHN COLUMBUS ACORD, b. 26 May 1900, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma; d. September 1972, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma;
IRA LLOYD ACORD, b. 09 Jan 1902, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma; d. 1957, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma; m. FLORENCE KUYKENDALL, Abt. 1923, Stephens County, Oklahoma; b. about 1905, of Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma.
RAYMOND ACORD, b. about 1903, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma; d. before 1910.
AUDREY FAYE 'FAYE' ACORD, b. 4 Dec 1904, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma; d. 19 Jan 1986, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma; m. ELZO MORRIS WOLTZ, b. 4 September 1902, d. December 1982, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.
GLADYS JOY ACORD, b. 27 Jul 1907, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma.
GLEN AVIS ACORD, b. 25 Apr 1910, d. 1 Oct 1981 in Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma; m LOUISE JONES.
ENA NORENE ACORD, b. 8 Apr 1913, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma, d. October 1979, Marlow Stephens County, Oklahoma; m. CHARLES BERNARD, b. 9 November 1914, d. Jun 1976, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma.
ONA NOLAN ACORD, b. 28 Jan 1916, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma; d. 1945.
Bibliography:
1850 Federal Census, Perry County, Tennessee
1850 Federal Census, Roane County, Tennessee
1860 Federal Census, Johnson County, Arkansas
1870 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County
1880 Federal Census, Jack County, Texas
1900 Federal Census, TX, Jack County, Page 54a.
1904 Birth Records of Jack County, Texas, [Audrey Faye]
1910 Federal Census, OK, Stephens County, page 336b.
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