Alexander McCord
Birth:  15 January 1811, New York City, New York, New York
Married:  Sibyl (McCord)
Death: 15 June 1887, Harlan, Shelby, Iowa
Burial: 16 June 1887

Alexander McCord joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in May 1836 at York , Ontario, Canada, being baptized by Parley P. Pratt. He resided at Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois , until moving to western Iowa in  1846.

Alexander enlisted in the Mormon Battalion and serve d as 4th Sergeant in Company A under Captain Jefferson Hunt.  He marched to California, where  he was honorably discharged.  He then journeyed to Salt Lake City, Utah. Alexander went to Winter Quarters, Nebraska, between February and April 1848.  He lived at Galland's Grove, Shelby, Iowa.  He was baptized a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859.  He was ordained an elder in 1860 and a seventy in 1861.  H e served a mission with E.C. Briggs and in 1865 with J.W. Chatburn and Samuel Wood.

Source:
1.   Saints' Herald Obituaries, 1887, pp. 567-568
2.   Black, Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: 1830-1848, 30:56
3.   Easton, Members of the Mormon Battalion
4.   Roster of Mormon Battalion
5.   Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, p. 43
6.  Wiggins, Mormons and Their Neighbors
7.  Early Reorganization Minutes, 1872-1905, Book C
8.  RLDS Church History, Volume 3
9.  RLDS Church History, Volume 4
10. Joseph Smith's Memoirs
11. RLDS Authority Card Catalog
12. Biographical Index, RLDS Card Catalog

Land and Record Office
Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois

---Contributed by Michael Dorland