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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Marshal Hampton McCord: Birth: 19 MAY 1925 in Baltimore (city), Maryland, United States. Death: 13 DEC 1994 in Timonium, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

  2. Eugene Biscoe McCord: Birth: 31 OCT 1927 in Baltimore (city), Maryland, United States. Death: 23 OCT 2019 in Hockessin, New Castle, Delaware, United States

  3. Ann McCord: Birth: 2 AUG 1930 in Baltimore (city), Maryland, United States. Death: 31 JAN 2014 in Hockessin, New Castle, Delaware, United States


Sources
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Page:   Year: 1920; Census Place: Baltimore Ward 10, Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland; Roll: T625_662; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 153
Text:   Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: <a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/census/publications-microfilm-catalogs-census/1920/part-07.html" target="_blank">NARA</a>. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City).
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Text:   Social Security Administration. <i>Social Security Death Index, Master File</i>. Social Security Administration.
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Page:   Year: 1920; Census Place: Baltimore Ward 10, Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland; Roll: T625_662; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 153
Text:   Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: <a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/census/publications-microfilm-catalogs-census/1920/part-07.html" target="_blank">NARA</a>. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City).
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Page:   Year: 1920; Census Place: Baltimore Ward 10, Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland; Roll: T625_662; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 153
Text:   Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: <a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/census/publications-microfilm-catalogs-census/1920/part-07.html" target="_blank">NARA</a>. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City).
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9. Title:   Ancestry.com, <i>1940 United States Federal Census</i> (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012).
Page:   Year: 1940; Census Place: Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland; Roll: m-t0627-01541; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 4-841
Text:   United States of America, Bureau of the Census. <i>Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940</i>. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.
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Page:   Year: 1920; Census Place: Baltimore Ward 10, Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland; Roll: T625_662; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 153
Text:   Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: <a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/census/publications-microfilm-catalogs-census/1920/part-07.html" target="_blank">NARA</a>. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City).
12. Title:   Ancestry.com, <i>U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current</i> (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012).
Text:   <i>Find A Grave</i>. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.
13. Title:   Ancestry.com, <i>U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current</i> (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012).
Text:   <i>Find A Grave</i>. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.
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15. Title:   Ancestry.com, <i>1910 United States Federal Census</i> (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006).
Page:   Year: 1910; Census Place: Baltimore Ward 10, Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland; Roll: T624_556; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0149; FHL microfilm: 1374569
16. Title:   Ancestry.com, <i>1920 United States Federal Census</i> (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010).
Page:   Year: 1920; Census Place: Baltimore Ward 10, Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland; Roll: T625_662; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 153
17. Title:   Ancestry.com, <i>1930 United States Federal Census</i> (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002).
Page:   Year: 1930; Census Place: Baltimore, Maryland; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0519; FHL microfilm: 2340604
18. Title:   Ancestry.com, <i>1940 United States Federal Census</i> (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012).
Page:   Year: 1940; Census Place: Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland; Roll: m-t0627-01541; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 4-841

Notes
a. Note:   rn High School and Goucher College in Baltimore. She won a ten dollar gold piece for scholarship when she graduated from high school and she graduated from Goucher with Phi Betta Kappa honors. She taught math in high school before marrying Marshal Hampton McCord in 1924 and she continued substitute teaching for much of her life. She supported herself in college by tutoring other students. She had a group of friends from high school ('The Girls') that were her lifelong friends.
 "Making a proper home for her husband and her friends was a lifelong vocation. She supported them in all their endeavors. Meals were prompt, the table was well-set, and food was substantial: meat, vegetables, potatoes, bread and dessert. The house was always neat and organized, ready for company to pop in at the door. During the period when the children lived at home, there was a maid six days a week and a laundress on Monday to assist in the housekeeping. Dorothy was not only an excellent wife, mother, cook, and seamstress, but she also kept up with current affairs, community activities, college alumnae, and a wide circle of friends. She was very skillful with her hands. She made beautiful things: crocheting, doing needlepoint and embroidery, and smocked dresses for her granddaughters. Her sister [Ruth E. Bishop] was her best friend throughout her life.
 "Dorothy was always well-dressed. There was always a black silk dress in her wardrobe for weddings and funerals. I learned early in my life that silk was not a satisfactory fiber. Small children with sticky hands could not approach mother when she had on her silk dress!
 "Her parties were done with elegance and grace: linen tablecloths, fine china and silverware, graciously served meals. There were many parties. Ann [McCord Weech] once had a pajama party when she was in college. Young college men came to pick up the girls on Sunday morning and were invited in for breakfast. One young gentleman was running on at the mouth along the line that he could not get along with over-educated women and that a Phi Betta Kappa math major was the worst. Dorothy got up from the head of the table, went upstairs, put on her Phi Beta Kappa pin, and returned quietly to the table.
 "Christmas dinner was a major production. The guests included sister Ruth [Bishop], her husband [Howard Bishop], child [Sally Bishop Fronk] and mother-in-law, Aunt Cora [McCord], Ellen Bell, Aunt Carrie McGahan, Mum-mum [Alice Mae Carter], and the five of us in residence. As the children grew older, cocktails were served in mid afternoon, and then the most sober adult was sent to collect the teetotaller old ladies. The bar was closed when the old ladies arrived. Howard Bishop carved the turkey at the table. It was the duty of the young children to finish their plates and ask for seconds before Howard could get around to serving himself.
 "There was one memorable Christmas when Dad [Marshal Hampton McCord], Gene [Eugene Biscoe McCord] and Marshal [Marshal Hampton McCord, Jr.] decided to repair a leaking faucet in the basement. We destroyed the old washer getting it out but did not have a replacement. The water supply was shut off to the house for most of Christmas day while we scoured the town for a replacement. Christmas dinner was served on time!
 "As the children left home, Dorothy became the glue that kept the extended family together. Her correspondence kept each of us in touch with what brothers, sister, cousins, aunt and uncles, and friends on several generational levels were doing. She was proud of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, kept pictures of all available, and was a ready source of anecdotes about them. She was always on call when help was needed, and showed up in North Carolina, Florida and California to help when her grandchildren were born.
 "She was beloved by all." From a letter by Eugene Biscoe McCord to William Allen Weech dated October 22, 1992
  * * * Memories of Dorothy Biscoe McCord "Dorothy's memories of her childhood were happy ones. She remembered going by horse and carriage from downtown Baltimore to the country (Towson, Maryland) for the summer. She remembered a lovely row house home on a square built around a small park. It had a wonderful spiral staircase. The house was built by her father [Edwin Eugene Biscoe], who was a master bricklayer. She also remembered one day when she was walking in the park with her father, dressed in all of her Sunday finery. A passing gentleman remarked on what a lovely child she was. He father answered: "You should see her sister!" It was true that her sister Ruth [Biscoe Bishop] was gorgeous all of her life.
 "My mother graduated at the top of her class from Eastern High School in 1918, as did her mother in 1884. She was given a four year scholarship to Goucher College from which she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in mathematics. She earned her spending money by reading each day to a blind student. She was the first "practice teacher" at Eastern High School when she did a three month internship there.
 "My mother met my father [Marshal Hampton McCord] in 1922 and quickly fell in love. After their marriage her first home was one which my father owned, but with them lived his mother [Sarah Ann McGahan], an aunt and uncle and their terribly spoiled crippled daughter, Ellen Bell. Within a short period of time the aunt and uncle died, and Ellen was placed in a "Home for Incurables." There she became an independent, outgoing person who was employed as the switchboard operator. Mom and Dad never neglected to see her or have her visit our home. Those must have been difficult years for a young bride.
 "Dorothy devoted her life to first being a wife, then a mother. When her first child Marshal [Hampton McCord, Jr.] was born, she suffered terrible tearing. When father was told of the problems and repairs, he fainted. Dr. White remarked that he wasn't too worried - he had never lost a father yet.
 "Three years later Mom gave birth to Eugene Biscoe McCord and then in 1930 I came along. When I was born, my father simply said: "Hmm - ruins my McCord baseball team!" and I was named simply Ann.
 "Just before the depression my father sold the home he had owned and rented a smaller house to wait out the economic crisis. In 1932 he was able to buy a lot and to build a lovely stone house in prestigious Guilford. We three children had just to cross the street to attend the Guilford Elementary School. Mother had her dream house.
 "My mother was always at home as we grew up, except for her monthly bridge meeting. The group played regularly for over 50 years. There was a full time cook and cleaning woman seven days a week. On Monday the laundry woman came. Mom stayed busy helping with the housework, sewing, needle pointing, and gardening. She sewed all of my clothes until I was college age.
 "During the second world war, Mother taught math for one year at a private girls school and then did substitute teaching in the public schools to help with the wartime shortage of teachers. She saved her money and bought a fur coat. My father's Scotch heritage and childhood hardships would not have paid for such an extravagance.
 "There was no question that Dorothy's life was dedicated to her family. She created a lovely, happy, vibrant home always open to her friends and to her children's friends. She was very bright, had a great sense of humor, held her head high and was always beautifully dressed. I remember that every evening at 5:00 she would bathe and dress to greet my father when he came home from work in downtown Baltimore.
 "Later in life Mother proclaimed "I will not be a baby-sitting grandmother," but she was. She was with me for six weeks before and after my first child Nancy [Norris Weech] was born in California. She taught me how to smock, sew, and make lampshades. Paul [Lee Norris] and I adored her spirit and companionship, not realizing how much she missed her husband and home back in Baltimore.
 "Mother was with me in Florida when my husband Paul [Lee Norris] died and little Paul [Norris Weech] was born. She was a tower of strength. She packed up my family and took us back to her home in Baltimore. She was also on hand to cook, clean and help when each of her other five grandchildren arrived.
 "My father was ill at home for four years before he died of cancer. Mom was at his side all of those years except for a short trip to see her first grandchild, Nancy [Norris Weech] married in Ithaca, New York.
 "She choose to live most of the fourteen years after Skipper [Marshal Hampton McCord] died in a Methodist home, rather than infringe on offsprings, mainly to maintain her independence. Unlike many older people and despite increasing medical problems, she was cheerful and she praised the staff and the home. To the end she was elegantly dressed and bejeweled and her head was held high.
 "Her inheritance to me is the memory of her deep love for her husband and family, her upbeat spirit and enthusiasm, her laughter, and her head held high."
  Written by Ann McCord Weech September, 1992
Note:   "Dorothy Royston Biscoe was born June 7, 1901. She attended Easte

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