John Hord (1738 - 1778)

Born 1738 in Fauquier, Virginia

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Died 1778 at about age 40 in Monongalia, Virginia

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Biography

John Hord has English ancestors.

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John Hord was a Virginia colonist.

John was born in 1738. He was the son of James Hord and Margaret Miller.

John Hoard came from Fauquier County, Va., between 1760 and 70; bought land here which had been taken up by one Everly; married a Snyder; died of small pox; had four children: Margaret Everly, Elizabeth A. Martin, Sarah, and James the father of John, James, William and Aaron B.^[1]

This committee granted certificates for lands on which improvements were made by the following named persons, in the years named - 1772, on the Monongahela, John Hoard.

He passed away in 1778. John was buried in 1778 in Hord Cemetery Union Dist, Stewarttown, West Virginia, United States.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ History of Monongalia County, West Virginia, from its first settlements to the present time; with numerous biographical and family sketches by Wiley, Samuel T
2. ↑ Burial: "U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1861-1985"
   National Archives at Washington DC; Washington DC, USA; Applications for Headstones For U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1941; NAID: 596118; Record Group Number: 92; Record Group Title: Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2375 #1601398 (accessed 20 February 2024)
   John Hord burial (died in 1778) in 1778 in Hord Cemetery Union Dist, Stewarttown, West Virginia, USA.

• The Hord Family of Virginia by Reverend Arnold Harris Hord, published 1915, pp. 63-65
• John Hoard Family (Monongalia County, West Virginia), by Clifford Brooks Hoard, Manuscript published 1965