09 SEP 2021, Notes for incoming transfer, sighted; added gender. 1) Bio section as written by the original creator of the memorial has been retained, and is below the divider. 2) A Gold Star Father; lost a son in World War II.
27 OCT 2022 SAC to add full DOD, LOD and additional information.*~The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, 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 goodbye, 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.
[Note: Reverend Acord is the son of John Columbus Acord and Martha Ann Dickerson, and husband of Ida Ellen Heath.]
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* Rev. John C. Acord married Ida Heath on December 23, 1888, in Jack County, Texas.
[Courtesy of Contributor: Daniel Bode (46863523)]
27 OCT 2022 SAC to add full DOD, LOD and additional information.*~The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, 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 goodbye, 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.
[Note: Reverend Acord is the son of John Columbus Acord and Martha Ann Dickerson, and husband of Ida Ellen Heath.]
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* Rev. John C. Acord married Ida Heath on December 23, 1888, in Jack County, Texas.
[Courtesy of Contributor: Daniel Bode (46863523)]
09 SEP 2021, Notes for incoming transfer, sighted; added gender. 1) Bio section as written by the original creator of the memorial has been retained, and is below the divider. 2) A Gold Star Father; lost a son in World War II.
27 OCT 2022 SAC to add full DOD, LOD and additional information.*~The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, 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 goodbye, 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.
[Note: Reverend Acord is the son of John Columbus Acord and Martha Ann Dickerson, and husband of Ida Ellen Heath.]
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* Rev. John C. Acord married Ida Heath on December 23, 1888, in Jack County, Texas.
[Courtesy of Contributor: Daniel Bode (46863523)]
27 OCT 2022 SAC to add full DOD, LOD and additional information.*~The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, 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 goodbye, 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.
[Note: Reverend Acord is the son of John Columbus Acord and Martha Ann Dickerson, and husband of Ida Ellen Heath.]
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* Rev. John C. Acord married Ida Heath on December 23, 1888, in Jack County, Texas.
[Courtesy of Contributor: Daniel Bode (46863523)]
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1866 - 1947
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1873 - 1959
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