(ENEALOGICAL RECORDS

 of William A. (born in Ireland) and Sarah Jane (Kent) Mc-
 Cord. The latter was born in Canada. She and her husband
were married in Toronto, Canada, where Cecil A. McCord was
born. He came to Florida at the age of five years and to
Tampa when he was twelve years old. He was educated in Tam-
pa, and is now manager of J. W. Roberts & Son's cigar fac-
tory. He is a Mason, a member of Hillsborough Lodge, and
a charter member of Lodge No. 708 of Tampa of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks.
 f Edna (Kendrick) McCord and Cecil A. McCord, her hus-
 band, are the parents of six children, as follows: Kent,
 Sarah and Russell (twins), William Kendrick, Mary Isobel
 and Cecile Adair.
 Edward Tatnell Kendrick, the ancestor of the branch
 of the Kendrick family residing in Tampa, volunteered for
 service in the Seminole Indian war in 1836, at the age of
 only fourteen years. He was then living in Georgia. At
 the close of the war he removed to Florida and to Hillsbo-
 rough County. He built the first water mill ever constructed
 in the county, on Flint creek, the outlet of Lake Thonoto-
 sassa. Later he leased the mill and enlisted in the Mexicani
 war. He was appointed wagon-master in 1848. At the end of
 'the war he returned to Tampa and was 'elected to the office
 -of sheriff of Hillaborough County. At the expiration of his
 term as sheriff he enlisted in the Seminole war of the fif-
 ties as first lieutenant of Captain F. M. Durrance's com-
 pany of mounted volunteers, being promoted later to the cap-
 taincy of the company.
 In 1859 he removed with his family to Fort Meade, in
 Polk County, and engaged in farming, which he continued up
 .to the outbreak of the Civil war. He then raised a ~oapan
 of infantry' for the Confederate service, which company was
 attached to the Seventh Florida regiment, and was known as
 Company E. When the company was reorganized he was appointed
 wagon-master of the same regiment. He died in Knoxville,
 Tennessee, January 10, 1863, of disease contracted in the
 .service. His wife died October 12, 1872, in Tampa.


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