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Col. William Rogers Colcord and
Mary Elizabeth
Clay
Parents of Charles
Francis
Colcord
The
following Biography on
William Rogers Colcord
contains the
information
located from his
birth to his
death.
By Linda
Craig
We first find
William
Rogers Colcord in Bourbon County,
Kentucky. He was born on November 26,
1827. He was the son of
Charles B.
and Louisa
Metcalf Colcord. From the
known records
found he
had a brother, Frank P.
Colcord born 1828, and a sister
named Maria
Louisa Clay
Colcord Middleton born 1832 (husband was John
Middleton-on 1880 census with William).
This
information was found
thru the following
record:
Misc.
Notes
Perrin,
pp.
527-528
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November 15, 1830.
Charles
B. Colcord and wife to trustees
Cane Ridge
Meeting House.
"This Indenture
made
this 15th day of November 18,30 between
Charles B. Colcord and
Louisa Colcord wife of
said Charles of the
County of Bourbon and
state of Kentucky of the
one part, and William
Rogers, James
Houston, Ephraim Harriott, Henry
Lander
and James M.
Cogswell,
trustee's of
Cane Ridge
Meeting House of the other part;
witness; for and in
consideration of the sum
of $90. lawful money
the
said Charles and
Louisa
have bargained, sold and confirmed and
by these presents do
bargain, sell confirm,
and convey to the said
trustees and their
successors in office
forever the lot of ground
on
which said meeting house is situated, it
being
in the county
afore
said and it part of a
claim of 5000 acres in
the name of Martin
Pickett. The said lot
is
bounded as follows:
(Description of the
property follows.) To have
and to hold the said 4 acres of land with
the
appertenances to the
said trustees and their successors in
office
forever free from
the claim or claims
or them.
The said
Charles B. and
Louisa A.
Colcord and all and every person or
persons
whatsoever claiming the
same in any way or
manner whatsoever. And it
is further to be
understood and is hereby
expressly agreed on
that
this conveyance is intended to vest said
lot
of ground with its
appertenances in the
afore
said trustees and their successors in
office
for ever for the
equal and mutual use of the Christian and
Presbyterian Church now
established for which
hereafter established.
It is also to be
further
understood and
it is hereby agreed that the
said premises shall be
free for any and all
other denominations of
Christians to assemble
at or upon for the
purpose of Christian
worship when the
same
may not be in the use or
occupance of the
society
or societies herein
expressly designated, to
wit the
Christian and
Presbyterian. In witness
whereof they the said
Charles
B. and Louisa A. Colcord, wife of the
said
Charles, have
hereto set
their hands and
affixed
their seals the
day and year
aforesaid."
1: Louisa
METCALF
Marriage: 1824
Children: William
R.
(1827-1901)
Frank P.
(1829-????)
Charles B., Louisia and
Frank P Colcord all died
in Bourbon County,
Kentucky and are buried
in the Cane Ridge
Cemetery, (Located
at the Cane Ridge
Meeting House Shrine on
Cane Ridge
Road). The
date of death for Frank
is not
readable on his headstone.
Cane
Ridge
Meeting House,
Bourbon
County,
Kentucky
  
After the death
of his parents, he married Maria Elizabeth
Clay. We find them
on the 1860 census in
Davis, Bourbon County, Kentucky. By this
time they have began their family with the
birth of a daughter, Mary
and a son,
Charles. At some time between 1860 and 1870 William
relocates his family to Harlem, Jefferson
County, Louisiana.
In 1876 William and
his son Charles drove a herd from Texas along
the Chisholm Trail through Texas and Indian
Territory to Caldwell,
Kansas. They decided to
stay in Kansas and lived near Medicine Lodge
in Comanche County. William organized the Jug
Cattle Company and
later combined resources
with other men to form the Comanche Pool,
approximately sixty thousand cattle. In the
fall of 1877, he
moved the rest of the
family up from Texas and they built three
or four fine big dugouts for them. This was
near the mouth of Red
Fork, about five miles
from the head of Jug Mott Creek, three miles
from Evansville, and about twenty-five miles
southeast of Coldwater,
Kansas, or where
Coldwater was afterward built. His son
Charles was quoted many years later in a
speech as saying, "Each
dugout was separate,
each built in the bank the same way, each with
one large room. Our home was a string of
dugouts in which my mother,
sister and younger
brothers lived. Our barns were built in the same
way, and the corrals were built of cedar
poles. "Father lived on
this ranch for the
next several years, during which time I was with
him, in charge of the Jug Cattle Company. The
Jug Company was
composed of R. C. Campbell,
Bob Campbell, Billy Carter, Frank
Thornton,
and my father. Father was one of the heaviest owners and I
was range boss during the whole time. A little
later he bought a
ranch in southern Kingman
County, Kansas, and stocked it with high
grade
and thoroughbred cattle from which he raised the bulls for the
range herd below.The year of 1880 shows that
William and Maria are
in Comanche County,
Kansas with their children, Charles, William,
Hervey, son-in-law John Middleton and
Maria. All were born in
the state of
Kentucky. As we follow this family we find them
in Kingman, Kansas on March 1, 1885. The
year of 1890 we find
William in Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma living alone, however, his son
Charles is also living their with his
family. Willam
died January
10, 1901 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and is
buried in Fairlawn Cemetery.
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