{"id":70420,"date":"2023-10-28T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=70420"},"modified":"2023-10-28T06:16:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T11:16:10","slug":"know-your-texas-history-j-e-mccord-texas-ranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/28\/know-your-texas-history-j-e-mccord-texas-ranger\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Texas History: J. E. McCord \u2014 Texas Ranger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Note from the Hermit: I want to remind all my fellow History buffs to Subscribe to fellow Marine Mustang’s two blogs: Searching History<\/a> and Fix Bayonets)<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n

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J. E. McCord \u2014 Texas\u00a0Ranger<\/a><\/h1>\n

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In modern times, parents give their children unusual first names to set them apart from other kids.\u00a0 Naming children is an interesting topic, made so by the number of \u201cexperts\u201d who try to explain the phenomenon.\u00a0 For example, one \u201cexpert\u201d opined that modern black parents give their kids African-sounding names even though they\u2019re found nowhere in Africa.<\/h2>\n

In contrast, parents of the past often named their children after Bible personalities.\u00a0 That\u2019s what happened to James Ebenezer McCord.\u00a0 The boy wasn\u2019t happy with James, Jim, Jimmy, Jake, Eb, or even Ebenezer.\u00a0 So when he grew up, he told everyone that he was J. E. McCord.\u00a0 Folks either called him \u201cJ.E.\u201d or McCord.<\/h2>\n

J. E. was born on the 4th of July 1834 to William P. and Lucinda Miller McCord in Abbeville, South Carolina.[1]<\/a>\u00a0 In 1847, the family moved briefly to Mississippi, then in 1853 onward to Texas, where the McCords settled in Henderson, over in Rusk County.\u00a0 J. E. began working as a land surveyor soon after arriving in Texas.\u00a0 In 1856, he led a party of surveyors to map out the location of a chain of counties on the western fringe of frontier Texas.<\/h2>\n

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H\/T: Searching History   (Note from the Hermit: I want to remind all my fellow History buffs to Subscribe to fellow Marine Mustang’s two blogs: Searching History and Fix Bayonets)   J. E. McCord \u2014 Texas\u00a0Ranger   In modern times, parents give their children unusual first names to set them apart from other kids.\u00a0 Naming…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,478,479,6096,1928,14953,7117],"tags":[16689,7666,7114,5730,10072],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70424,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70420\/revisions\/70424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}