William Albert Acord (1853 - 1918)

Born 1853 in Johnson County, Arkansas

Ancestors

Son of Calvin Acord and Angeline (Cook) Acord

Descendants

Died 1918 at about age 65 in Oark, Johnson County, Arkansas

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Biography

William Albert "Bill" Acord (1853-1918) ran the Family Grist Mill on Little Mulberry Creek, Acord Hollow, Johnson County, Arkansas after his grandparents, John and Sarah Turner Acord, moved to Texas during the Civil War. After his father Calvin died he was appointed postmaster at Cobbsville, Arkansas on 24 Jan 1881. He was a Justice of the Peace for nearly 30 years, in "Hill Township". He estimated he had united over 2,000 people in Marriage. As a special deputy he once recognized a criminal by a scar on his face, hiding in a snake pit of a Road Show. He was a 32nd degree Mason, and was appointed special agent for the Mason's Fraternal Accident Association of America, and was authorized to organize local membership in the town of Eubank Mills. He owned several farms in Johnson County, in what is now Ozark National Forest. He had 14 children, and one died at birth

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27453079

• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2ZS-V5X (mentioned in son Tobe's death record)

• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6PW3-CBX?i=1&cc=1438024 (1870 census)

• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8W7-Q6M (1860 census)

• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNWZ-RFQ (1880 census)

• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKVW-2JH (1910 census)

DNA

• Paternal and Maternal relationships are both confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Linda (Jones) Coursey and Angela Dicks, her 3rd cousin . Their most-recent common ancestors are Calvin Acord and Angeline Cook, the great great grandparents of both Linda (Jones) Coursey and Angela Dicks. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA:3rd cousin, based on sharing 49 cM across 2 segments.