First, some family background.....

     Miss Myra McCord was the daughter of Joel Walstein McCord, born in 1846, and Lula Hall McCord.  Joel was the son of James Rufus McCord and his second wife, the Widow Nancy Watts who died sometime in the late 1840's.  James Rufus took a third wife, Louisa Kenney around 1853 and had another son, H.Y. McCord, born in 1854.  So H. Y. and Joel were half brothers, having the same father and different mothers, making H. Y. McCord the uncle of Miss Myra McCord.