CARSON, NV Archives Obituaries.....[COLCORD, Mary F. - 12/24/1923 ]
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LAS VEGAS AGE - 12/29/1923

MARY F. COLCORD DIES SUDDENLY IN CARSON CITY

	The funeral of Mrs. Mary Frances Hopkins Colcord, wife of former Governor Roscoe G. Colcord, who died
in Carson City Monday morning at the age of 76 years, was held on Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock from the residence
with the Rev. J. E. Harvey officiating.
	Mary Frances Colcord was born at Lewiston, Ill., September 13, 1847.  The daughter of Col. L. B. Hopkins,
she was brought to California as a child and educated there, later removing with her parents to Virginia City, where her 
father was a mine superintendent.  She was married April 25, 1868, in Bishop Whitaker's church at Virginia City to Roscoe 
G. Colcord, who was later to become governor and superintendent of the U. S. mint at Carson City and who with their 
daughter, Stella G., (Mrs. A. A. Stafford) survive.
	Governor Colcord's father brought him to Caliofornia in 1859 removing to Nevada in 1863 where his ability as 
a mechanical engineer and mine manager won his prominence as at Bodie, Calif., in charge of the Imperial mine at Gold Hill, 
Nevada, and as manager for the English corporation at Aurora, Nev.  The Colcords lived in Nevada then for a time in 
Massachusetts, then back to California, then Bodie, Calif., near the Nevada line and Aurora.
	Governor Colcord was elected from Aurora in 1890 and during all his business, political and social activities he 
was always ably supplemented by his vigorous and handsome wife.
	Ever since his service as governor, the Colcord residence has been in Carson City where further official duties 
fell to him as superintendent of the U. S. mint in 1898.
	In recent years, Mrs. Colcord has been an invalid but always fanifested a keen and intelligent interest in public 
affairs.  Her last illness was pneumonia of only a few days' duration and the end was peaceful.
	A host of friends will mourn her passing for she was one of the real pioneers who contributed to the upbuilding 
of Nevada.  While mistress of the executive mansion (which was not then provided by the state) she, with her husband, 
dispensed a generous and hearty hospitality.  She ruled within her own sphere with vision and tact and won for herself a 
high and enduring place in the respect and esteem of the people of the entire commonwealty.  - Nevada State Journal.