FIFTH GENERATION

226. Virginia R. Dupuy was born in 1829 in Ohio. She died on 12 Aug 1855 in Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Kentucky.

She was married to William Hough Cord (son of Garrett Cord and Martha Hendon Prewett) on 31 May 1849 in Mason County, Kentucky. William Hough Cord was born on 9 May 1821 in Natchez, Mississippi. He appeared on the census on 20 Jul 1850 in Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Kentucky. ⁽³⁸⁷⁾ He appeared on the census on 13 Jun 1860 in Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Kentucky.⁽³⁸⁸⁾ He appeared on the census in 1880 in Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Kentucky. ⁽³⁸⁹⁾ He died on 7 Mar 1885 in Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Kentucky.


There is a biography of William Hough Cord in the "Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky", Cincinnatti, 1878, p. 759:


CORD, WILLIAM HOUGH, Lawyer, was born May 9, 1822, in Natchez, Mississippi. His father, Garrett Cord, was a native of Harford County, Maryland, and was a tailor by trade. In 1815 he came to Kentucky, and settled in Fleming County; in 1818, he went to Natchez, Mississippi, where he remained until 1826; in that year, he returned to Fleming County, and there died, in 1847. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and witnessed ......

..... Mr. Cord has been twice married: first, in May 1849, to Miss Virginia R. Dupuy, a native of Portsmouth, Ohio, daughter of Jesse L. Dupuy, formerly a merchant of Petersburg and Norfolk, Virginia; she died in 1855. In 1861, he was again married, to Miss Mary F. Dupuy, sister of his first wife, and both sisters of Eliza A. Dupuy, the authoress.

Virginia R. Dupuy and William Hough Cord had the following children:

558 i. William H. Cord was born in 1850 in Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Kentucky.
559 ii. Irene Cord was born in 1853 in Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Kentucky.
560 iii. Mary V. Cord was born in 1855 in Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Kentucky.