Family
Over her family's objections, Charles Francis Colcord married Harriet Scoresby (August 1865, Iowa - June 26, 1951, Oklahoma City), in Hutchinson, Kansas on February 9, 1885. She was the daughter of Rev. Thomas Smith Scoresby, a Methodist Episcopal minister born in England.
I went up to Elm Creek to attend a dance given by Mrs. Slack, an elder sister of Harriet Scoresby and fell violently in love with her at first sight and determined to have her for my wife. The second time I met Harriet I was driving a herd of cattle from the range into Kansas. Her father, her uncles and all other members of her family were bitterly opposed to Harriet marrying a wild cowpuncher. I made up my mind all the preachers in Kansas could not stop me. I talked to Harriet's brother-in-law, who lived in Barber County, Kansas and he told me the whole family was opposed to me because people had exaggerated reports about me. I think this brother-in-law did a lot towards breaking down this opposition and Harriet's mother, who was one of the greatest women I ever knew, was favorable toward me from the very start. Also a young brother, O. C. Storesby, who was something of a wild kid himself, seemed to take a liking to me and often helped me out in meeting his sister.
They moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, before participating in the Run. They had seven children:
- Ray Colcord (born September 12, 1886, died February 1971, St. Petersburg FL), married Rena Piner
- Charles F. Colcord Jr. (born June 12, 1888 in Kansas, died August 23, 1900 in Oklahoma City)
- Marguerite Colcord (Mrs. Lee Dudley) Callahan, died May 1980 in Oklahoma City).
- Caroline Colcord (Mrs. John Wesley) Bates, b. August 8, 1895, Oklahoma Territory, died October 13, 1995, Tulsa)
- Sidney Colcord (born February 17, 1898 in Oklahoma Territory, died December 22, 1969 in Tulsa)
- Cadijah Colcord (Mrs. Walter H.) Helmerich (1899–1990)
- Harriet Colcord White (born September 2, 1901, died June 1979, Oklahoma City)
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