Rolla McCord
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Rolla Eugene McCord (1880 - 1936)

Rolla Eugene McCord
Born in College Springs, Page, Iowa, United Statesmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of — married 15 Jan 1919 in Paris, Francemap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 55 in Geneva, DuPage County, Illinoismap
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Profile last modified | Created 13 Nov 2011
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Note: @NI27097@
@NI27097@ NOTE1880 census, College Springs, Page Co., IA.
1910 census, Topeka, Wd-3, Shawnee Co., KS.
U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925
about Rolla E McCord
Name: Rolla E McCord
Birth Date: 30 Jan 1882
Birth Place: College Springs, Iowa
Residence: San Francisco, California
Passport Issue Date: 16 May 1918
Father Name: William J McCord
Father's Birth Location: Wisconsin, USA
Father's Residence: (Now Deceased)
Passport Includes a Photo: Y
Source: Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925 (M1490)
New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
about Rolla E McCord
Name: Rolla E McCord
Arrival Date: 1 Feb 1919
Estimated Birth Year: 1880
Age: 38 Years 11 Months
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Brest (France)
Ship Name: Celtic
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
NATIVITY: Iowa
Line: 4
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: T715_2622
Birth Location: Iowa
Birth Location Other: College Springs
Page Number: 3

Biography

Rolla was born in 1880. He is the son of William McCord. He passed away in 1936. [1]

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  1. Entered by Tom Hill, Nov 13, 2011






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An Appreciation

Rolla McCord in a lifetime of 56 years filled with a treasure chest of memories. Many of us go through life forgetting almost as fast as we receive impressions. Not so Rolla. Life is Experience. Living is an adventure. All of us are what we are, because last year we were something different and in the meantime the elements of time and circumstance, of bazard and effect, have wrought some change in us.

It was Roll's good fortune and the fortune of us who knew him well that he observed keenly, not only with the eye but with the mind. Some faculty of him saw in the common happenings of the day a margin or background of the droll, the ludicrous, the dramatic. What he experienced he remembered, and the storehouse of his memory contained riches that most of us might envy.

Here were memories of the childhood on a Kansas farm--the prairies, the little orchard, the coyotes, the cattle, the shepherd dog. Then the family returned to Iowa, the community around College Springs, which will be his final resting place. Probaby more so than any of his contemporaries, he knew College Springs in all its physical aspects, how the houses stood, their shape, and color, who lived in them and possibly he could have sorted out the inhabitats and told how many of them were United Presbyterians and how many Methodists. He could picture how the creek wound through the hills, what kind of trees grew in the bottom and on the upland; how the landscapte looked in winter and how in summer, in storm and in sunshine.

He was a born nature lover, but he liked people even more. It was the individual rather than the group who appealed to his interest. He looked on, he mixed in, he was on the spot when enything important occurred, and thus he was getting educated quite apart from school.

In the school and the little college, he liked above all the sports, baseball and foodball. Some of the essential qualities of the athlete were his--a keen eye, quick movement of all the muscles. He could do things well himself and could get others to do their best. Later in California he was in playground work in San Francisco, and from this went overseas in 1918 with the YMCA to do his bit in the "huts" and on the recreational grounds on the western front and even for the brief time was among the doughboys in the front line trenches.

Since the war his home has been in Glen Ellyn, where for several years he played with and coached the locals, the Glen Ellyn Reds, in baseball. It was in the character of an athletic coach, one who is interested not only in getting things done, but in the persons who do things, that made him so esteemed by his fellows in the WPA.

Rolla mixed into the fighting, working world. He was not, altogether a spectator of the events in the arena. But whether it was through his personal contact or from the standpoint of the observer, he became a part of all he had seen. Because of the intensity of experience, he made life rich to himself, and at the same time he enriched and bettered the lifes of those around him. --Written by LB Hill, Glen Ellyn, Ill.

posted 1 Jan 2012 by Jean (Hill) Krapfel
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