Coosa County AlArchives Biographies.....McCord, Z. D. January 6 1863 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   Z. D. MCCORD, manufacturer, at Good Water. Ala., is a son of E. F. and
Elizabeth (Thompson) McCord, the former of whom was a native of Georgia, was
married in Gwinnett county, Ga., and came to Alabama soon afterward, settling in
Tallapoosa county in Hackney's beat. This was in 1854. Here he lived till the
fall of 1876, when he moved across the line in Coosa county, and there lived
until his death, November 2, 1888. He was a quiet man, never taking any part in
politics. He was a zealous and active worker in the Primitive Baptist church. He
had no desire to be rich, was a good liver, and was very liberal with his means.
He reared a family of six sons and one daughter, all living, viz.: Martha J.,
wife of A. B. Ogburn, Good Water, Ala.; J. J., Gibsonville, Ala.; R. B., farmer
of Elias, Ala.; Z. D.; B. A., partner of Z. D.; W. H. and E. F., both of Good
Water. The mother of these children is still living with her son, B. A., and
enjoys good health at the age of seventy-two. The great-grandfather McCord
emigrated from Ireland before the Revolutionary war, in which he took an active
part, as captain of a company. The family resided in North Carolina. Grandfather
Robert McCord was born and reared in that state, probably in Spartanburg
district. When E. F. McCord was seven years old the entire family moved to a
place near the present site of Atlanta, Ga., and he drove cows all over the site
when there was not a house to be seen. The Thompson family came to Alabama about
1853, grandfather Zachariah Thompson dying in Hackney's beat. He was peculiar in
his ideas and his life. All the other Thompsons were well educated. He could
have been, but would not. He was also singular in another respect, that he never
took a drink of liquor in all his life. Z. D. McCord was born January 6, 1863,
in Gwinnett county, Ga., and remained with his father till he was of age. He
began life for himself then as a farmer, in Hackneyville beat, in Tallapoosa
county, and after two years moved to Good Water, where he has since lived,
engaging in the milling and ginning business. Sixteen years ago he started on a
very small scale, and has built his business up inch by inch and by his own
labor. He has now a manufacturing plant devoted to the manufacture of wagons,
buggies, plows and machinery of different kinds, and also runs a mill and cotton
gin in connection with his manufacturing. The entire plant is worth about
$12,000. The firm is known as the Good Water Manufacturing company, and is
composed of Z. D. and Benjamin A. McCord. Up to the present time they have
merely supplied the local trade, but now they are putting their goods in
different parts of the state. Z. D. McCord was married December 14, 1882, near
Good Water, to Minerva Vaughan, by whom he has four children, viz.: Lou Anna;
Mary L.; Velmer E. and Zachariah J. Benjamin A. McCord was born in. 1855, in
Hackneyville beat, Tallapoosa county, Ala., and began farming when twenty-one
years old. After a few years he entered business with his brother, and helped
him build up a trade. He was married October 28, 1880, in Mt. Olive beat, Coosa
county, to Alabama Pate, by whom he has five children, as follows: Sarah E.;
Mary V. Minnie J.; Thomas E.; Annie B. Both brothers are democrats, and Benjamin
A. is a member of the farmers alliance.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 730-731



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